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They had, however, been scouting out a likely target and had chosen the slightly built young lady with the bulging money belt as the best source of the filthy lucre that they needed to maintain their lighter fuel and crack cocaine habits
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“My father did that, when he was drunk or on cocaine
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"When I cut open one of the gray packages of cocaine base, I left the [empty] gray package in
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The charge? Possession of more than 50 grams of cocaine
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Hankins was now a victim of the system, of the war on crack cocaine
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perhaps the cocaine snorted in the toilet an hour earlier
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I went through four years of high school in the mid fifties without learning there is such a thing as marijuana, to say nothing of cocaine, heroin, or any of the other present distractions from a sensible life
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Without his few talents he would be just another cocaine crazed puritan, or a
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absinth, ounce of pure cocaine, camera and replacement suit in his car, checked spare wheel,
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Not surprisingly, there have never been calls to drug test corporate executives who received corporate welfare, even though drugs like cocaine are largely used by the well to do
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Worst of all was the hysteria over crack cocaine
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New sentences for crack put users in prison 100 times longer than for the same amount of powdered cocaine
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Standing before her, was a man who fed cocaine to a fourteen year-old girl to entrap her into a life of prostitution, yet she could detect not the slightest trace of evil lurking there or in his body language, which always spoke so loudly if one paid attention
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The marriage was a horrible experience: cocaine abuse, domestic violence; the works
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Among the Costa Rican regulars was a federal narcotics officer with hanging jowls and baldhead who, according to her, stole kilos of confiscated cocaine and sold them himself
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She could smell the cocaine somewhere in the room - the faint tingle in the back of her throat, the itching in her nose
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So right away, I start worrying that maybe his plan includes robbing our next load too, so I ask what she knows about cocaine shipments and the whore starts in talking about your nigger boyfriend
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After all, it shouldn’t be so very difficult to grab a load of cocaine from a log barge, but every time he mentioned it, she’d switch right back to blaming him for setting the two broads free
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The combination of intense pain and withdrawal from crack cocaine lifted simple paranoia to dizzying new heights
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Those fears were confirmed when Beth refused to give her cash to buy crack cocaine or allow her to go out in search of it
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The only good thing about Sal was that he’d gotten them started in the cocaine business
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His voice changed, it was steady and quieter: “Don’t you know that since crack cocaine showed up in the province, Gordy has been something of an anti-drug nut? He is the man responsible for those infernal roadblocks on the coastal highway
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And, I’m still not understanding here: you said that Herminia thinks this asshole is trafficking cocaine with Gordon Edward? Where did that come from? I can’t see how any of this has anything to do with him
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Then they made her repeat everything he said, and when she got to the part about shipping cocaine, they really went crazy
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That’s possible, I suppose, but from the nature of their questions she was left with the impression that they were more interested in this cocaine than about getting their money back
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It was all completely insane! I had no idea of what any of that meant until yesterday, when Herminia told me Leon said Gordon Edward’s cocaine comes hidden in log barges
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Anyhow, I begged Mike to believe me, that I don’t know anyone named Sal or anything about cocaine trafficking
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The truth is that, in large part, what Herminia said is correct: Gordon does traffic cocaine, but I can assure you, he has never engaged in violence and definitely would not have anything to do with the likes of Mike Henderson
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Huge profits, sufficient to fill the financial gaps left by Congress, can be earned for the cause by transporting cocaine
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If I’m caught I want my lawyer to be able to say I had no idea, or any way to know there was cocaine in those packages
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Assured of a secure supply route, Gordon met his American wholesaler, ironed out the details, and soon thereafter cocaine began moving northward in a flow that has continued uninterrupted and undetected to this day
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Buried under the fishing nets in the bottom of his boat were twenty-five kilos of ninety-three percent pure cocaine, disguised as packages of surgical bandages
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Truman’s instructions were to move the cocaine north, through a series of Contra safe houses, to a contact in Juticalpa, Honduras
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When she met Sal and started selling cocaine, Shannon took to the business like a natural
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The truth was considerably different: cocaine trafficking turned a quick and enormous profit, and it was real, real easy
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Under Reagan, the laws were changed to sentence crack cocaine users to 100 times prison time that powdered cocaine
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The law locked up primarily Blacks for longer sentences, though most cocaine users and dealers, both crack and powdered, are white
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A compromise settled on eighteen times as long a sentence for crack compared to powdered cocaine
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It was, after all, the business she claimed to be the source of her cocaine earnings
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To hijack something as sensitive as cocaine from the likes of that man - where it might be traced back to him - would be nothing short of suicidal
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Officially, he was an undercover cop whose job it was to supply others with the information necessary for successful arrests in any class of crime, but in the red-light district of San José that translated into cocaine
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As it turned out, his assignment to the division came at a most opportune time: Costa Rica had recently succumbed to US pressure insisting that it expand its efforts against cocaine
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At the time, cocaine passed through virtually unnoticed, a problem of little consequence for law enforcement, and that was perhaps the main reason he received the assignment
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As Costa Rica gave way to the political arm-twisting, so did other countries lying in cocaine’s northbound path as the field of players on both sides of the law expanded enormously
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When, for example, a shipment of one hundred-fifty kilos became officially reported as a fifty kilo bust, Edgar was perfectly aware that the excess cocaine made it to the streets, only through the hands of cops, themselves
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He knew several other things as well: that the profits of the illegal sales found its way to the highest levels the OIJ and that among the ranks of cocaine dealing cops was his sometimes partner, Officer Enrique Segovia
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The Lord blessed him with good fortune when a new Columbian cocaine-producing lab began to sell its product
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He had been trying to break into trafficking back home by selling cocaine to some of the same people as Alan, only cheaper
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A year of intense effort and investment had brought it to the point of grand opening while complacency had convinced her that Mike could be trusted to deliver the cocaine to his mules at Hotel Playa Tambor
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News arrived in the form of an urgent message from Sal: one of her cocaine carriers had been arrested at Logan International Airport with five hundred grams of cocaine taped to his lower back
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Sylvia was certain the police knew the man they’d arrested was not, as he maintained, smuggling cocaine for the first time or acting entirely on his own, but he’d been unshakable through hours of rigorous interrogation
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Particularly with one of their men arrested and the cops undoubtedly watching anyone even remotely associated, safer methods of transporting both the cocaine and the cash had to be found
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The idea they eventually settled upon came to Sylvia via a joke, when the glass toilet reserved for anyone suspected of swallowing cocaine-filled condoms was mentioned
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For example: how long after ingestion do things come out the other end, and is that enough time to get a horse through customs? What tests, if any, are the animals subjected to? How many condoms full of cocaine can one expect to stuff in each? Would a condom even remain intact? Sylvia was starting to see just how valuable her trip to Kentucky could become
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If the scheme proved viable and she could solicit his participation, her cocaine could possibly begin arriving in the United States again in time to avoid an interruption of the flow to their street dealers, considering current reserves
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“In the horse’s belly I can put anything you want, emeralds, cocaine, heroin, anything,” he boasted, smiling and adjusting his hat
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“Your maid showed me in,” and with that, poured a quantity of cocaine onto the table
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Caroline was leaned over the cocaine
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No sooner were those delicate negotiations complete then Alfredo called to say that his tests went well: a horse could easily contain a small fortune’s worth of cocaine for ample time enough to pass through customs
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She could imagine his thoughts jumping for joy, anticipating a felony cocaine trafficking charge
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And, if they made the pinch before anyone got out, Mike would be as guilty as the mules with sacks of cocaine taped to their lower backs
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It was traced to a murder in a suspected dispute over cocaine – and from his car was recovered a vial
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He found himself accused of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of cocaine, under investigation for murder, and following Caroline’s success at spreading the tale of her ordeal, was left without a friend to intervene
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Caroline filed for divorce, citing François’ history of violence, desertion, armed assault and cocaine addiction
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One occasionally wonders if morphine, cocaine, heroin, opium, hashish, laudanum, or whatever would help
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However, the 1980’s saw the use of cocaine as a recreational drug dramatically increase from almost zero
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Shortly following this, the province was swept through by widespread crack cocaine use
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She was about to leave when it came to her attention that the sugar bowl on the bar was filled to the top not with sugar, but cocaine and that the cigar box contained rolling papers, a pipe and some of the finest light-green, sweet-smelling bud she had ever encountered
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Soon, the new couple was cuddled on a chaise-lounge, sharing marijuana, cocaine and conversation that continued for hours into the night and in private intimacy even as the party rollicked about them
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But, Alfredo cutting open the gut and fishing about inside could only mean one thing: smuggling and a ruptured bag of cocaine was way more than enough to kill a horse
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Mike wasn’t in charge of a thing! He was just a hired flunky who sent cocaine to the States in the digestive tracts of her horses
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He did very well, and even better, he said, if cocaine sales were included
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The most common tool of intimidation was crack cocaine
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If she could do the same with Angel’s cocaine, her profit would increase by a quarter! Maybe it could work, but once she had the stuff in Puerto Viejo, what then? She had seen only too clearly the squads of police on the northbound side of the Sixaola/Limon highway
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What she needed was a new and reliable method that could move Angel’s cocaine to the United States and, if she was going to work at answers to that dilemma, it seemed that the place to start would be Puerto Viejo
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The bleary-eyed and stubble-faced man who answered the door had just seen Caroline through her second consecutive all-nighter of sex and cocaine
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The task that remained, that of informing Enrique she was quitting the cocaine business, was something she greeted with jubilation and it didn’t come with a sense of regret
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The cocaine shipments assumed a routine that varied little
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Mike would then travel with Richard and Pepé to Bocas del Toro, return after sunset to the fish processing plant and hide the cocaine
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Edgar had far too little respect for Michael to consider him capable of putting together a cocaine smuggling ring other than maybe the most basic, consisting of nothing more than using his friends, who visited him regularly, as mules
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He interrupted, telling Gordon of several mechanical problems that had come to his attention while returning from delivering cocaine to Nicaragua
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‘Limon Province, continually neglected by the corrupt power structure of the federal government: bridges down and a plague of crack cocaine infecting the province, and what does the federal government do? Nothing
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He has ordered the provinces’ own Port Authority Police to do the job the OIJ won’t and stamp out cocaine trafficking in Limon
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“You mean, I’m going to finally hear the last of you carrying on about this damn Tweety-Bird cocaine? What have you find out?”
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Increasingly, finding the persons responsible for bringing crack cocaine to the streets of Limon had become his focus
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In the early years following the war, Gordon had deemed it necessary that Truman accompany the cocaine on each northbound trip, reasoning that, if even the hint of a problem began to develop, he would be on hand to resolve it before it grew out of proportion
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However, as the years passed and the cocaine always moved smoothly, Truman convinced Gordon to trust his men and reduce his journeys to two per year, and that he follow the drug only as far as Puerto Cortes, Honduras
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Why did he care what she thought anyhow? He was a cocaine trafficker, there could never be anything meaningful between them
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Into the depths of the truck, and subsequently surrounded by equipment too ponderous for unloading except by oversized forklift, they concealed the cocaine
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It was a long while ago, the day they’d carried a bag of food to Herminia’s box and Beth had been condemning cocaine traffickers for the horrors they brought to her life
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’ He wondered then if this shipment of cocaine he was escorting was going to do the harm Beth thought it would
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Then came the civil war in Nicaragua, and Uncle Sam needed smugglers to move arms to the Contras – and a little cocaine northward
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When Truman arrived, the cocaine was already packed into the container it would be in when it arrived in Houston
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Another disturbing thought was that, by the time he got back to Chauita, the cocaine would already be in the States
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On occasion, she braved the risk and arrived with a condom of cocaine concealed in her vagina
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She became a cocaine distributor based on the substantial purchases she continued to make through Enrique for the club, and a conspirator to commit murder: Brian’s
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He seemed convinced that it would lead to the information needed to capture those responsible for the cocaine plaguing Limon Province, just in time to create a sensation in the press: R
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His inquiries had uncovered that Walston sold cocaine in small amounts to customers
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“The good news is,” Truman began, “that Brian Walston told me where he buys his cocaine
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Herminia had pointed him out and alleged that he sold cocaine