Panama Cocaine Ring Bust: Police Arrest 80 Members Of Cocaine Ring

PANAMA CITY -- Authorities in Panama say they have broken up a major cocaine trafficking organization that moved drugs from Colombia to Panama and then north to Mexico and the United States.

Panama's Drug Prosecutor Javier Caraballo says 80 Panamanians and Colombians were arrested Monday in simultaneous raids across the Central American country.

Caraballo says the group moved at least 18 tons of cocaine in the last two years mainly through the Caribbean and was led by alleged Colombian drug trafficker Jorge Indalecio Marmolejo.

Caraballo said Tuesday the group distributed cocaine from gangs linked to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Drug gangs are increasingly using Central America to ship drugs and launder money.

Comments

[concerndemo]

11:32 AM on 10/27/2011

Listen u,people,The war on drugs is farce,no street level dealer is a mjor factor in this,PEOPLE THE THE BLINDDERS OFF,THIS IS A MULTI-BILLON DOLLAR INDUSTRY,TO MANY PLITICIANS,TOMANY LAW-ENFORCEMENT,TO MANY GOVERMENT OFFICALICALS INVOLVELD.JUST CHEK YOUR STOCKMARKET GUIDE,FOR INSTANCE (GEO)THIS IS NOT A AUTOMOBLILE COMPANY,IF U CAN SEE WHO IS INVESTING IN COMPANIES SUCH AS THESE,THEY ARE MAKING A MINT ON YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES,ALLSO LOOK-UP DEATH AND FURNERAL HOMES AND CORPORPATOION,ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE MAKING DOLLARS HAND OVER FIST,PLEASE RESEARCK ALL OF THIS.WE CAN STOP DRUG ABUSE AND MANY OTHER ILLS OF THE THIS SOCETIT,GIVE AMERICANS REAL JOBS,STOP THE BULLSHIT IN AMERICAAND ABROAD,LET DO WHAT GOD SAYS TO DO (LOVE,LOVE,LOVE).

[keezze]

03:06 AM on 09/08/2011

good and more to come.

[Leon Engelun]

12:55 PM on 09/07/2011

Cocaine and mail order brides. The two main indurstries of the country.

[Ronald Pardue]

12:50 PM on 09/07/2011

the police,border patrol and even the governments drug czars will agree, the drug war is over and the traffickers won. how can they stop something that gets into prisons and if they can't stop the flow of people from mexico, how are they going to stop traffickers using submarines they build them selves and all the other methods they use. give up and save the money for something else.

[twenty2727seven]

10:37 AM on 09/07/2011

That's 80 less people who can cut it before it gets here, not bad.

[BBackSoon]

09:49 AM on 09/07/2011

Good job, that should make the price jump $0 a gram.

Now if it was oil, this kind of disruption would cause the price of gas to spike big time!

[iuriggs6]

09:05 AM on 09/07/2011

Job well done by the authorities.

[schatsie]

08:29 AM on 09/07/2011

Just LEGALIZE it NOW......Are there too many oligarchs making too much money off this and the drug laundering,,,is that why Warren bought into Wells Fargo because of the drug laundering income?

[dropacat]

01:39 AM on 09/07/2011

One of my life dreams is to learn permaculture and encourage and teach it in South America to end the communities' dependence on growing coca, and instead grow other beneficial crops. That and legalizing drugs are the only way I see this horror ending.

[Skydiver63]

11:10 PM on 09/06/2011

Damn, there goes Obama's stimulus money! Hey Barry...back to the drawing board...