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When drugs flooded South Florida in the 1970s and 1980s and the National Park Service began to phase out commercial fishing, the mainstay of the Everglades City economy, residents involved themselves in marijuana smuggling. [4] The DEA decided they had to put a stop to the smuggling.
The Miami drug war was a series of armed conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s, centered in the city of Miami, Florida, between the United States government and multiple drug cartels, primarily the Medellín Cartel. It was predominantly fueled by the illegal trafficking of cocaine.
The Museum of the Everglades in Everglades City. The area around Chokoloskee Bay, including the site of Everglades City, was occupied for thousands of years by Native Americans of the Glades culture, who were absorbed by the Calusa shortly before the arrival of Europeans in the New World, but by the time Florida was transferred from Spain to the United States in 1821, the area was uninhabited.
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A week later on Monday, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said another batch of cocaine – more than half a million dollars’ worth – was found floating near Everglades City, in the Gulf ...
In the fiscal year of 2023, a total of 19,066 cases related to drugs were reported, with drug trafficking accounting for 18,939 of these cases. The majority of drug trafficking crimes, amounting to 98.1%, involved seven specific types of drugs.
A major drug smuggling ring that used checked luggage at LAX to move meth, fentanyl and other narcotics to Florida is uncovered in two-year investigation. Smugglers used LAX luggage to move $13 ...
They raided a shipment of drugs on a pleasure boat named the Mary C, taking 350–400 kilograms (770–880 lb) of cocaine worth around $10 million at the time (equivalent to $28,000,000 in 2023). [ 1 ] : 140 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the raid, three of the seven person crew unloading the cocaine drowned attempting to escape.