Bronx Drug Trafficking

Lee D. Hoffer’s “Junkie Business: The Evolution and Operation of a Heroin Dealing Network” is an ethnography that details the buying and dealing of the highly addictive drug, heroin, in the particularly homeless area of Denver, Colorado called “Larimer” from 1995 to the year 2000. The majority of the book focuses on the partnership of two heroin dealers, Kurt and Danny, and examines their daily lifestyles and the transitional periods they faced during their operations. On a much broader level, Hoffer wanted to characterize the heroin dealing occurring on the consumer-oriented side of the heroin dealing business, as well as understand the evolution of Kurt and Danny’s operations. Hoffer’s virtually unlimited

Often times, DEA agents seize property that was associated in drugs. Such as houses with illegal drugs or drug money, cars, land, sometimes even private jets or helicopters. (Oldenburg).

Tom Coleman, the officer that arrested these people, worked undercover for eighteen months, living as a poor, mischievous citizen as he “gained the trust” of prospective local drug dealers. During this time, he claimed to have purchased of an eight balls of cocaine from forty-six people throughout Tulia, in Cochran County. To give you a perspective, that is one third of the black men, arrested, at the time. During their trials, it was discovered that there was no hard

Over the years, drug-law enforcement agents have often developed “drug courier profiles” to help them identify potential drug smugglers. In United States v. Sokolow

The United States agency of drugs have discovered that for all of the illegal drugs consumed in the nation has been transported by the Mexican cartels. “U.S. federal officials say that the mexican cartels operate in dozens of U.S. cities and analysts say they are moving to consolidate their control of the entire supply chain of illegals drugs”(Schwartz, 1). The government of the United States have been conducting the investigation to now if the cartels are north. Many big cities today have a piece of the cartel organization working there and also producing drugs to distribute within the city. According to the investigation done by the DEA and U.N officials “Mexican cartels have established command - and - control centers to orchestrate cocaine shipments by sea and air along the still wild caribbean coast with the help of local authorities”(Booth, 2). All though that the cartel are moving to the United States they are still leaving command center in mexico to conduct shipments by ground or any other shipments overseas. The cartel is able to transport such quantities of drugs with help of the local authorities and other corrupt government officials.

Criminal organizations operating from South America smuggle cocaine and heroin into the U.S. via a number of routes.

When considering the socio economic status of all parties involved in the handling and distribution of drugs it becomes clear which group can be more easily targeted for crimes. According to Officer Moldes of the Austin, Texas Police Department, we can break down the distribution chain of cocaine into three main groups, the traffickers, distributors, and dealers. Traffickers are the wealthiest within the chain and purchase the product in pure form, powder cocaine. This group is the least suspicious, usually college educated and from a wealthy upbringing; typically Caucasian, and

In 1993, EL Chapo was captured and sent to another high maximum security prison in Jalisco, Mexico. Initially, he was placed in a isolated facility until he was able to bribe and threaten the staff to place him with the other inmates. While there, they allowed him to have sex with female prisoners from other institutions, smuggle cocaine through Viagra pills, and treated him like a king (Fusion). Also, he stayed in contact with other extremely powerful drug allies, providing him with money and enforced their power among the guards (Grayson 58). After lawmakers did further investigation on his escape, it has been shown that seventy-one prison officials were receiving regular payments from 'El Chapo' (Morris 254). This continued for eight years (a few days before being extradited to the U.S.) until he decided that it was time for him to escape (Grayson 58). His major influence with his guards, led to them helping hide his body under dirty laundry and smuggling him out of the

3. A defendant is caught up in a federal drug sting. When state or local law enforcement officers encounter a particularly large or sophisticated drug ring, they will often ask federal agencies to assist them on the investigation. During such operations, state and federal agencies often come to an agreement on jurisdiction. If the federal government takes control, defendants will end up being charged for federal drug crimes. This is true even if a defendant played a minor role in the alleged crime.

Jailer Jung handed me the plastic bindle. I opened the plastic bindle and found a crystal substance inside of it. Arvizu told me that he forgot about the plastic bindle inside of his

The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the United States has been involved in several operations with drug trafficking. Some of these reports claim that the evidence of the Congress indicates that the CIA worked with groups that were known to be involved in drug trafficking. The deals mainly include providing the CIA with useful information and support material, in exchange for allowing their criminal activities to continue, and impede or prevent the arrest, prosecution and imprisonment from United States law enforcement agencies. This "war on drugs" was used as an easy way to increase repression in inner cities and confiscate millions of dollars in private assets through unconstitutional forfeiture laws. These assets were used to fund police burgeoning, and as an active participant in the illegal drug trade, public resources were used to bring heroin and cocaine into American inner cities since the 1960 's.

Oscar Danilo Blandon was another infamous crack dealer along with Ross and Meneses. “Blandon has also implied that his cocaine sales were, for a time, CIA-approved” (Webb n.p) Therefore, Blandon was also receiving help from officials from the United States in a way that was similar to Meneses. According to Gary Webb, Blandon testified, “And the people that was in charge, it was the CIA, so they didn't want to raise any drug money because they had the money that they wanted” (Webb n.p). The CIA was using the cocaine dealers for their own benefits in order to save up money for their own uses. Furthermore, the CIA did not really care about the long-lasting effect that crack would have on American

The CIA has for quite some time been utilizing the American press to create caution on the limit of Mexican notices to deliver a normal of 50 metric huge amounts of handled heroin every year and 15800 metric huge amounts of cannabis destined for The United States. The aim of this organization is to legitimize, combine and grow the reconnaissance activities in Mexico.

From the coast of Panama, until 20 miles off the coast of Australia, three men are on trial for importing 400kg of cocaine in a yacht in 2010.

In this research paper I will discuss one transnational crime, and compare the contrast of two nations for their definition of the crime rate, and tools used to measure the crime. I will give each country’s legal tradition and their major influences on crime definition, rate, and measurement. In this assignment I will analyze the extent to which crime statistics collected in different nations can adequately be compared.