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Fox News reports that her former colleagues in Florida "expect she will bring the same playbook to Washington—this time with an eye to cracking down on drug trafficking, illicit fentanyl use ...
Tren de Aragua gang members are known for violence, murder, kidnapping, extortion, bribery and human and drug trafficking and are linked to more than 100 law enforcement investigations nationwide.
Ahead of the legislative session beginning Tuesday, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has been pushing to expand her office’s control over local drug prosecutions and investigations.
Florida lawmakers twice reduced the penalty for the drug trafficking charge for which he was sentenced to 25 years. If he were sentenced today, the maximum penalty would be seven years.
Established by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Program in 2004, the OCDETF Fusion Center (OFC) is a multi-agency intelligence center designed to provide intelligence information to investigations and prosecutions focused on disrupting and dismantling drug trafficking and money laundering organizations. [16]
Also this year, a former DEA agent in Florida who admitted to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a drug trafficker was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.
The operation was established in response to the explosive growth of money laundering in South Florida following the increase in drug trafficking in the region. [1] [2] A 1979 cash-flow study by the Federal Reserve Bank found that Florida had a $5.5 billion cash surplus at a time when the rest of the country had a cash deficit. [1] [2]
Operation Sandshaker was a three-year investigation, between 2000 and 2003 in Pensacola, Florida that resulted in the arrest of more than thirty residents, many of them respected individuals within the community. [1] The individuals were suspected in trafficking cocaine from Miami into the Pensacola area.