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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 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.
The Night Train drug seizure was a December 1977 seizure of 54 tons of marijuana by the United States Coast Guard off the southeastern coast of Florida which marked the beginning of Operation Stopgap, a United States federal law enforcement inter-agency drug interdiction operation focusing on interdicting drugs from Colombian cartels and other illicit Central and South American drug sources. [1]
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 ...
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‘Molly’ kingpin pleads guilty to smuggling club drug to Miami, faces 10 years in prison. Jay Weaver. May 16, 2023 at 1:09 PM.
They were smuggling 40–60 kilograms (88–132 lb) of cocaine to Miami every week via airdrops over the Everglades from small planes, earning around $8 million per month. [2]: 193 Miami was well situated to be a hub for cocaine smuggling due to its position in the Caribbean and the widespread use of Spanish. [4]
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 ...