The U.S. Coast Guard celebrated a “historic milestone” after crews unloaded over 76,140 pounds of illegal drugs -- most of it cocaine -- that the feds planned to investigate and destroy.
A 47-year-old man stands accused Thursday of trafficking cocaine and possession of cocaine in the Florida Keys, records show.
The cocaine was hidden in boxes of fruit. It traveled in commercial planes from Colombia and into the United States after a stop in Central America.
A Florida man recently admitted to cocaine dealing after allegedly showing dirty cash to undercover cops during a Facetime call.
Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a 33-year-old fugitive who is a convicted felon with a pending drug trafficking case.
A Miami contract pilot known as “Jagger” flew a private jet registered in the U.S. from the Dominican Republic to Venezuela where he expected men to load about 1,700 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia.
A man cops identified as a Zoe Mafia Family gang member had been involved with cocaine for about a decade in Broward County. A detective recently reported he had added fentanyl and ecstasy to his dealings.
When Nelson Andreu, the retired chief of the West Miami Police Department, was a Metro-Dade detective, he thought of Griselda Blanco as a serial killer.
Luis Garcia-Blanco, a Cuban who had arrived in Miami on the Mariel boatlift, was accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend Maricel Gutierrez in the head with a machine gun in 1980, in Miami-Dade. He had allegedly also cut off her finger and kept it in a Bible.