JPRS ID: 9200 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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21 Juiy 1980
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRU~S
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21 JuZy 1980 ~
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGER~US DRf1G5
~ (FOUO 30/80)
CONT~NTS
AS IA
AUS TRALIA
Briefs
Heroin Case Retrial 1
j Forty-five on Drugs Charges 1 `
HON G KON G
Antinarcotics Committee Outlines Its Objectives
(SOUTH CEIINA 1~RNING P06T, 23 Jun 80) 2
Penalties Proposed for Trafficking in Fake Drugs
; (SOUTH CHINA MrJRNING P06T, 13 Jun 80) 3
Briefs
Urug Seizure Statistics 4
Heroin Possession arge 4
Morphine Possession Charge 4 _
- IN DONES IA
Results of Antinarcotics Operation Announced
(KOMPAS, 14 May 80) 5
Drug Arrests in Jakarta, Amsterdam Linked
(SINAR HARAPAN, 9 May 80) 7
- Ninety Drug Arrests in Riau Province
(HARIAN iTMiJM AB, 9 May 80) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Briefs
~ Ope rat ion Taruna 10
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NEW ZEALAND
~ Police, Customs Report Progress in Narcotics Control
(THE EVENING POST, 20 J~m 8Q) 11
Addicts Conning Doctors Into Prescribing Drugs
('~'EiE EVENING POST, 17 Jun 80) 13
PAKISTAN
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Narcotics, Guns in Active Trading in Northwest Frontier
- Town
(Peter Nieseward; THE MUSLIM, 19 Jun 80) 14
Raid in ~awalpindi Locates Hash ish
(THE MUSLIM, 18 Jun 80) 16
Briefs
= Visit of U.S. Narcotics Official 17
Charas Seized 1~
TAIWAN
Minister Marks Anti-Opium Day, Notes PRC Drug F'low
- (INA, 2 Jun 80) 18
~IAILAND '
Officiala Alarmed Over Heavy Drug Use Among Y~uth
(BAN MUANG, 1 May 80) 19
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Heroin Sentence for Foreigner Zl
_ Diazepam Use in Phrae 2~
LATIN AME KI CA
ARGENTINA
Briefs
Illegal Sale of Drugs 23 ~
BOLIVIA
~ 'AFP' Commentator DeSCribes Drug Connection
- (Eduardo Perez Iribarna; AFP, 3 Jul 80) 24 -
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Briefs
Drug Traffickers Arrested 26 `
International Trafficker Arrested 26
COLOMBIA
Defense Minister Calls for Brother's Investigation
(EL ESPECTADOR, 17 Jun 80) 27
'Cocaine Queen' Case Continues To Cause Stir
(EL TIEMPO, uarious dates) 31
Judge Releases ' Cocaine Queen'
Investigation of Release Demanded
Disciplinary Trial for Judge
Briefs
Cocaine in Gas Cylinders 36 -
MEXICU -
Federal Prosecuto~s Ibing Work of ' Inept' FJP
(EL MANANA, 28 May 80) 37
Intensive Search for Escaped Traffickers Described
(F,L FRONTERIZO, 30 Mar 80) 38
Various Drug Seiztires in Tamaulipas, Coahuila Reported
(EL MANANA, 27 May 80) 42
Antidrug Campaign Research Laboratory Described
(EL SOL DE SINAIAA, 31 Mar 80) 43
'E1 Artista' Sen tenced for Storage of Marihuana
(EL DIARIO DE NUEVO L~REDO, 10 May SQ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Marihuana Smugglers Captured in Tamaulipas
- (EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO, 9 May 80) 47
Police Incompetence, Collusion With Mafia Hinted
(EL MANANA, various dates) 49
Official ~laims Traffickers Eliminated
Ineffective Police Work Cited
Traffickers, Drugs Seized in Last 20 Days Listed
(EXC,'ELSIOR, 14 May 80) 51 '
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_ PGR Pilots Destroy Poppy P13ntation~
(EL SOL DE ME XICO, 30 May b0) 52
Trafficke�rs, Drugs Seized in Merida, Nuevo Laredo
' (EL SOL DE MEXICO, 6 Jun 80) 53
Briefs
_ Six Trafficker~ Sentenced 54
Heroin Trafficker Resentenced 54
Hashish From Lebanon Seized 55
PE RU
Briefs
Cocaine Haul 56 _
Drug Traffickers Detained 56 `
Drug Arrests 56
URUGUAY
Briefs
Drug Addi ction ,5 ~
NEAR EAST AND NOR7~I AFRICA
IRAN ~
Ayatollah Khalkhali Comments on Antidrug Campaign
(Ayatollah Khalkhali Interview; BAIrIDAD, 8 Jun 80) . 58
- Khalkhali Leads, Supervises Raids on Drug Center.s
(Tehran Domestic Service, various dates) 59
32 Drug Smugglers Arrested _
Second Drug Center Found
Five Drug Smugglers Executed -
Drug Smugglers Sentenced
Khalkhali Statement =
Drug Traffickers Executed
Executions of Narcotics Smugglers
Kh alkh ali Sentences Eight to Death for Drug Smuggling
(Tehran Domestic Service, 15 Jun 80) 62
_ Briefs
Sabotage, Drug Trading Charge 63
Heroin Trafficker Executed; Two Imprisoned 63
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SENEGAL
Gendarmes Destroy Large Tonnage of Yamba
(LE SOLEIL, 7 May 89)........4 64
USSI~ 4
B rie fs
_ Official on Combating Drug Addiction 66
WEST EUROPE
' I CE LAN D
~ Briefs
Arrests in Hashish Case 67
Sold Hashish 67
- ITALY
Trieste-South America Heroin Connection Suspected
(LA NUOVA SARDEQVA, 18 May 80) . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
~ Head of Cocaine Distribution Network Hailed
- (Rosario Poma; IL GIORNALE DI SICIT~IA, 22 May 80),.... 70
Alghe ro ( S ardinia) He roin Drug Ring
(L'i1NI0NE SARDA, 29 May 8Q) 72
Palmi (Sicily) Heroin Arrests -
(LA GAZZETTA DEL SUD, 2~ May 807...._. 73
_ Heroin Arrests in Genoa Net 8
(LA NUOVA SARDEGNA, 18 May 80) 75
lhree Turkish Heroin Couriers Arrested in Rflme
(L'IJNITA, 26 Jun 80)........~ 77
Briefs
Cocaine Seized in Rome 78
- NE THE RLANDS
- Diplomatic Heroin Suspect Recalled
(ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS PERSBUREAU, 17 Jim 80) . . . . . . . 79
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NOHI~IAY
Oslo Police C~ncerned About He~~in-Smuggling Wave ~
(AFTENPOSTEN, 14 May 80) 81
Arrest Made, by Inge D. Han:~sen
Import:ant Smuggler Routes B~roken Up, by Inge D.
Hanasen
Heroin Hidden in U.S. Automobiles, by Inge D.
Hanssen
Concealment Inside Body
S4IE DEN
Court Hands Drug, Gang Leader Record Sentance
' (DAGENS NYHETER, 18 Jun 80) 87
Couple Arrested; Smuggled Hashish From Denmark
(DAGENS NYHETER, 18 Jun 80) 88
Briefs
Ten Kilograms of Hashish Seized 89
T URKEY _
Briefs
Hashish Seized in Mersin, Istanbul 90
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~ AUS'I`RALIA
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HERO~; CASE RETP,IP.L--A Supreme Court judge was wrong in failing to d:~sect a
jury fully ahout the defences open to a man accused of hercin posses~~c~n, the
CourT, of Criminal Appeal d.ecided yesterday. The court ordered a retr:ial 7or
Ah~riet Djemal Libillar~, former car fact~ry inspector, of Broadmeadows, Victoria,
quashirg his conviction and setting as~de a seven-year gaol sentenca imposed
for the alleged possessi.on of 964k of heroin. In February, a Supreme Court jury
acquiit~d him of a charge of impor-ting the heroin into Austra.lia~ but he was
found guilty of possessing the heroin. The Court of Criminal Appeal. found ~
- that P4r Justice Laban had failed to direct the jury on one of the dei'erices
- open to Zib~ llari. He had r_ot told the jury tha.t it was a defence -to a
posse~sion cha,rge if a person did not know that the good~ had been imported
- in contraveri-tion of the Customs Act. LExcerpts] [Perth ii-iE 'v~i~ST AUSTP~r~LIAN
in English 14~ Jun 80 p 27]
' FOR1'Y-k NE Oi~+ DR?JGS CHARGES--Brisbane.--Forty-five men and wornen appeared in _
Ttambour magistrate's court yesterday on a total of 8'~~ drug related cha.rges
The cases were heard individually and the court was still sitting at 8 pm
in the small Queensland coastal town, 106 km north of Brisbane. Many of those
charged were remandec~ on ~ail to appeax at a later date. Others were convicted
and fined. The charges ranged from possessing to supplying dant;erous drugs,
possession of prohibited plants and utensils for the processing of drugs. 'I'he
arrest~. follewed dawn raids toda~r by teams of police and drug squad men on
houses in the sarrounding coastal resorts of Tewantin, Noosa, Peregiari and
Coolum, police said. [Item as published; no further information monitored.]
[Text] [Melbourne THE AGE in En~lish 5 Jun 80 p 3]
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HONG KONG
~`~r1~1}~r{~TICS ('0^1P?IT'I'EE Ol?TLI~IES ITS OBJECTIVES
~!~~n~> '~nng S~I~TH CF1Ii~1A MORiVING POST in English 23 Jun 80 p 18
f 1�: r. i�~, t s/ 'i'b~ Action Committee Agauut Narcotia will hold a
ootourful water carnival ot Repulse Bey beach an luly 6 at 3
pm to mark the atart of its annuel preventive educatioa and
publicity programma.
The two-hour carnival. the biggea2 anti-narcotics publicity
event to be launc6od by ACAN thii year, will be watched by
_ about 60~000 be~ch-goers.
The opening aremony of t6e carnival will be performcd
by the C6airman of the Urban Council, Mr A. de O. Sales.
ACAN chairman Sir Albert Rodnguea. Secretary for -
Security Mr Lewis Davies and senior Government officinls
and kaifong leaders will al~o be atteadiny~.
A ltighlight of the carnival will be a dramatic, fast-moving
moclc drug raid on a junk police, cauto~ o}Yiciala, the
Royal Honglcoa~ Regiment ~t~e Vdunteers) and tho Royel
Hnngkong Aw~ilury Air Fora.
A s~polcesman !or the Narootjca piviaion .of the Garern.
menr Secretariat ~aid yesterday tLet the~ wer~ four objec.
tivea whic6 ACAN hopes to achieve throug6 iu pre~,eauve
education aad publicity prosrammee,
Fintly, it will try W Ireep the dng abuae i~oe oona~ntly
before the pu~lic - and change its attitude towards drug ~
- abueers.
Seoondly. it hopes to prswent dru8 a4~ among yonng
people who are moat at riek of beooming addicts.
vol ntary treatmen and ~rehabil
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fac~,tti~a
avail ble and
enoourage them to come forward for treatment.
Finally, it will strive to kap the lnternational audiena
aware of Hongkong's anti-drug actions, achievementa and
intentions.
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HONG hONG
P~ti:\1,TTF.S PRc~P0;E1) r'(1P~ TRr1FFICKING IN FAKE DRUGS
Hr,nf h:r,ng SOIiTH CHINA ~IOR~iING POST in English 13 Jun 80 p 13
_ /Ter: t: / A person convicted of trafficking in substance~ purporting
to be a dangerous drug wiU be liable to a maximum pPnalty of
seven years' imprisonment and a fine of 5500,000 if a new
Bill is approved by the Legislative Council.
The proposed Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Bill 19~0, `
which will be gazetted today, is expected to be introduced m
the Legislative Council at its next sitting on June 25.
Eaplaining the Bill, a spokesman f'or the Narcotics
- Division, Government Secretariat, said that the existing
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance prohibited trafficking in danger-
ous drugs , but, did not deal with people trafficking in
_ substances represented or held out to be dangerous drugs.
The Bill, the spokesman said, rnakes it clear that a person
w~o offers to traffic in a substance which he believes to be a
d$agecoua drug is ~ui~ty of an offence eve~ though it is not in
fbCt a dangerous drug:
The ceason for the introduetion af the Bill is that since
early Iast year, there has been a shortage of illicit drug
supplies with the result that there has been an increase in the
number of attempted sales of fake narcotics.
_ The spokesman said a total of 338 casrs of fake heroin and
numerous other substances purporting to be dangerous drugs -
were detected.
He said people offering fake drugs can be charged with
- deception but it is difficult to convict them because of the
- need to establish a dishonest intention.
The spokesman said it is thereforC proposed that such
cases should be dealt with by the creation of a separate
~ offence under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. '
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HONG KONG
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DRUG SEIZURE STATISTI CS--In a big crackdown on illegal gambling, vice and _
drugs, police made a total of 2,520 raids last month. In drug operati ons, '
428 people were rounded up in raids and searches. No less than 3.33 kilo-
grams of heroin was seized, along with 396 grams of o~ium and smaller
quantities of barbitone and morphine. /Excerpts7 %Hong Kong SOUTH CHI NA -
= MORIVING POST in English 23 Jun 80 p 14T
= HERCIN POS~ESSION CHARGE- A man and a woman were yesterday arrested in a
= Wanchai flat for al_le gedly possessing one kilogram of No 3 heroin with a
- retail market value of $400,000. They have been charged with possessi on -
- of dangerous drugs f or the purpose of unlawful trafficking and will ap-
= pear in Causeway Bay Court tod~. /Text7 /Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING
= POST in English 24 Jun 80 p 14/
= MORPHINE POSSESSION CHARGE- A man was yesterday remanded in jail custody
= on a charge of possessing 284.21 grams of esters of morphine for the pur- -
= pose of unlawful trafficking on June 7 at Kai Tak airport. Mr Eddie Yanne
= at San Po Kong Court remanded Cheung Chi-keung until June 23 for plea to
- be taken in Kowloon District Court. The drugs are estirr,ated to have a
market value of $350, 000. /Text/ /Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORIV~NG POST in
English 17 Jun 80 p 7/
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~ INDONESIA
RESL'LTS OF ANTINARCOTICS OPERATION ANNOUNCED
Jakarta K0.'~AS in Indonesian 14 May 80 p 6
- [Excerpts] Operation Taruna I, aimed at illegal drug traffic in nine police
r~gions, resulted in the arrest of 481 trafficers and p ossessors.
Following the two-month operation (28 February-27 April), 240 cases were
turned over to the Prosecutor's Office. Of these, 143 are in process, -
78 persons were released, and 20 are hospitalized, according to General
of Police Awaloedin Djamin, chief of the Republic of Indonesia Police Force.
The operational commander of Taruna I, Commanding General of Detectives
- and Police Ma.jor General A. Mauludin deta~led results as follows: 83,316.5 -
milligrams of morphine; 3,OU0 m~lligrams of opium; 4,300 milligrams of
opium residue in the form of tengko; a bottle of Afitson; and two tubes of
opium ~dust) .
In addition, 116.5 kilograms of marijuana were taken, and 48 kilograms of
m~�ri,;~~ana and 4,700 marijuana stalks were destroyed. Of illegal drugs
included in the G List, 5,514 pills and 2,00~ grains of marijuana seeds
were also seized.
- The chief explained that the operation targeted markets, populous areas,
bars, 3iscos, nightblubs, etc., as well as other known trafficking areas.
- Locations of marijuana plantings and other narcoti~ crops were also tar-
- geted, as were coastal/harbor areas, for smuggling of narcotics and dangerous
_ drugs.
The operation concentrated on Aceh, North Sumatra, Riau, Metropolitan
Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, Lesser Sundas and North
Central Sulawesi. Targets outside the country were also selected.
`Cargeted areas were selected for their potential in three areas: First,
as a production/processing area; second, as a convenient transit point
Eor traffic to and from abroad; and third, as a consumption area--the most
. dangerous, because it threatens Indonesia's younger generation,
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The chief noted that scores of high school and jur.ior high school students ~
in Police Region VII, Metropolitan Jakarta, are involved in drug abuse,
both as users and as t-rafficers.
The same is true for Medan, Surabay and Palu. Moreover, the problem may
spread to other areas. Thus, parents must be vigilant, especially during
vacations, which are usually celebrated with parties. Parents must be _
= careful, lest those parties become marijuana or morphine parties, said the
chief .
[Jhen a child becomes addicted, his relatives and his parents must not be _
afraid or ashamed. Report it to the police, because the child can still
be treated. If it is marijuana, it is not too bad, but if it is morphine
or heroin, it is a fatal situation, the chief stated.
- He concluded that the drug problem is still manageable, but we must be
vigilant.
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INDONESIA
- DRUG ARRESTS IN JAKARTA, AMSTERDAM LINKED
Jakarta SINAR HARAPAN in Indonesian 9 May 80 pp l, 12
[Excerpt] Customs officials and the State Police uncovered an international -
syndicate's plan to smuggle 5 kg of heroin, and arrested four su~~ects.
Two were taken in Jakarta and two in Amsterdam.
The 5 kg of pure, high quality heroin reportedly originated in Bangkok
- and was later brought to Malaysia. The heroin, worth $5,00 per gram, was
- smuggled from Malaysia to Medan by boat. It was flown from Medan to Jakarta.
Customs officials and State Police caught two smugglers, a man and a woman,
last Friday at Halim Perdanakusuma Airfield. The heroin, scheduled for a
flight to Amsterdam, was seized.
After intensive investigation by customs officals, the Police Headquarters'
Narcotics Research Unit and Interpol, the operation to clean up the syndi-
cate was launched. Special teams were`sent to Medan and Amsterdam.
Interpol Indonesia and Interpol Netherlands devised tactics to arrest
syndicate members in Amsterdam. Last Tuesday, members of the Indonesian
anti-narcotics team accompanied the female suspect in a flight to Amsterdam. _
The woman had told accomplices in Amsterdam the shipment would arrive in
Amsterdam Wednesday. Dutch anti-narcotics police arrested two Malaysian
Chinese who had cose to meet the woman in Schiphol Airfield, Amsterdam. -
The SINAR HARAPAN source who had related these events was not prepared to
divulge the identities of those arrested. This was because the operation
to close down the syndicate was still under way, particularly in Malaysia.
The anti-narcotics team which flew to Medan last Saturday has been unable _
to arrest syndicate members there. Medan was used as a transit goint for
heroin en route from Malaysia to Jakarta.
A Chinese person living in Medan, strongly believed to be a link in the
network, is still at large, said the source.
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A member of the Indonesian anti-narcotics force explained that the syndi-
cate knew that checking of flights arriving at Schiphol Airfield from
Indonesia was not thorough. Jakarta-Schiphol was considered a safer route
than aircraft coming from Bangkok, which was a risky route.
- The arrest of the 4 suspects is a brilliant achievement in the history
of narcotics syndicates in Indonesia. The arrests in Amsterdam were possi-
ble because of tight security. The heroin seized was worth $25 million.
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INnONESIA
NINETY DRUG ARRESTS Ir? RIAU PROVINCE
Jakarta HARIAN UMUM AB in Indonesian 9 May 80 p 6
[Excerpts] The State Police of Police Regional Co~and IV, Riau, recently
carried out Operation Taruna I in three areas of the command. Tliese are:
Area Command 401, Pekanbaru; Area Command 403, Bengkalis; and Area Command
404, Riau Islands. The operation, aimed at eradicating illegal narcotics
traffic, resulted in the seizure of 76,756.5 milligrams of morphine, 3,000
milligrams of opium, and 2,300 �nilligrams of tengko, and the arrest of 90
persons involved in using, storing and processing illegal goods. Brigadier
General of Police Drs Hoedioro, chief of Police, Area IV, told this to the
press in the data office of the police region recently.
According to the chief, the most fruitful target was Area Command 403,
Bengkalis, and its five subareas, Selat Panjang, Bagati Siapi api, Pulau
Halang, Sinaboi and Panipahan, although the morphine seized from those
- areas was destined for further transit, and not for lncal consumption.
The chief said that Operation Taruna was carried out in great secrecy.
Officers entered the targeted areas in secrecy, and were forced to endure
harassment from members of the State Police holding the rank of corporal.
This was because the officers did not report their arrival to local offi-
cials, and, to insure their success in the operation, the officers,
disguised as fishermen, had to patiently submit to harassment.
The chief explained that 12 of the 90 men seized were still in custody,
and would be held for trial.
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- INDONESIA
BRIEFS
OPERATION TARUNA--Operation Taruna broke up a smuggling ring in Central
Sulawesi using Donggala Harbor with the arrest of four crewmen of a Pelni-
- owned ship carrying marijuana. Local police also found three hospitalized
addicts whose parents had found them unconscious from inhaling Datura
plant vapors. Datura, which grows widely in Palu, is very dangerous, and
can kill if taken internally. [Excerpts] ~Jakarta SINAR HARAPAN in
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tdEW ZEALAND
POLICE, CUSTOMS REPORT PROGRESS IN NARCOTICS CONTROL
Wellicigton THE EVEIVING POST in English 20 Jun 80 p 24 ,
/Textj Ther,e has been a noticeable decline in the availability of heroin
in New Zealand since the 'TIr Asia" murder of Martin Johnstone in Lanca-
shire and the breaking up of a major international drug trafficking organ-
isation.
This was revealed in the annual report of the New Zealand Police, tablPd
in Parliament today.
The report stated that close liaison has been maintained with police in
Britain concerning the murder.
Co-operation between palice in New Zealand, Britain, Australia, and Sing-
apore and Thailand assisted the Lancashire police in providing the British
director of public prosecutions with more than 1500 pages of evidence f or
the trial.
/words missing--as published/ rests in New Zealand by the end o~ 1979
were reaching "an encouragingly low ebb" and this trend will continue into
~ 1980, the report says.
It states that previously The power of the police to are now using labradors -
the availability of heroin search wilhout warrant was a move consistent with
and the number of arrests used 311 times during the oversea's trends.
were reaching alarming year. On 290 occasions drugs The transtasman travel of
proportions. were seized. drug offenders is a continu-
The report said however Police narcotic detector in problem.
than cannabis resin and oil dogs were used on 1003 ~he appointment of a
appears to be becoming a searches - an inc,~ease of pelice liaison officer in
growing problem on the 25 perceot from the previous Sydney wlll delp with t4is,
drug scene here. Y~~, according to the report.
In 1979 a record 16,270 kg Narcotics were tound by Thfs was backed u in the
of resin and 1334 kg ot oil the do s on 168 occasions. P
were seized. Cannabis of- g annual report of the Cus-
- fences rose by 54 percent. The report said tbat the toms Department w6ic6 was
Some 15 drug related speclalist narcotic teams also tabled in Paclfament
deaths were reported to the which used , only German today,
police during 1979. shepherd do~s until recently
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The Customs report stated
that the illegal i~r~portation
of controlled drugs is a
major problem in the cus-
- toms eniorcement area.
- It said a total of 304
- interceptions were made in =
the year ending March 1980
at sea, airports, and through ~
parcei post importations.
X-ray
X-ray, tr~ehlbes in Auck-
land and ,Wellington have
been valuaM+e aids. Numer-
~ ous in[erceptions of narco-
tics have been made using
these machines.
Usuatly, however, only '
_ sm~ll quantitles' of drugs
heve been seized in thIs way,
the report 5ates.
Full-time customs-police
_ liaisoa officers have been
appolnted in Auckland, Wel-
lington and Christchurch.
'1`tiey have been working
to et~sare t6at the best
posa~ie u~e'!a made ot the
agesiel~s' , ~ combined
re/OUiCes;
19~ report said that
becaluse ot this closer
118190A 8 pupl~f.'f' of loint
large-scale operations bave
beeri mounted.
There has been notable
sucveea.,fin achieving severe
pen~ttbeb on`~ thoee commit-
tirg oftenc~ agaiast the
Mlsuse of Dr~~e Ack.
Tbete is i
~ ~c ~ ry
tf
� a,
3
y 4x
~ . S . . ~ S ' .
General Luis Carlos CamBcho Alfonso Camacho Leyva
Leyva
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COLOMBIA ~
'COCAINE QUEEN' CASE CONTINUES TO CAUSE STIR
Judge Releases 'Cocaine Queen'
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 10 Jun 80 Sec D p 15
[Text] Informed sources have disclosed that a woman arrested for drug traf-
ficking and identified as a recognized "capo" of the Mafia, was released
last week for lack of evidence.
She is Marleny Orjuela Sanchez, who was captured on 24 May in Bogota, and
accused of being associated with a drug trafficking ring that was broken up
on that same night in simultaneous raids made by the Anti-Narcotics Group ~
of the Attorney General's Office.
On that occasion, Roberto Yepes, Hector Rodriguez, Julio Rodruguez and Luis _
Hernando Espinosa Correa were arrested. The authorities reported that they
liad nearly 200 kilograms of coca in their possession.
One of the aforementioned individuals, Hector Rodriguez, was caught while on
his way to the residence of Marleny Orjuela Sanchez, carrying 15 kilograms
oE the alkaloid in his car.
When the operation was concluded, the detectives from the Anti-Narcotics
Group turned over the investigatior. to the 48th judge of criminal proceedings,
' Leonor Izquierdo de Pava, together with those arrested.
Af ter studying the status of ~those in custody, and hearing them under ques-
tioning, the official decided to issue a writ for the release of Marleny
Orjuela Sanr_hez; because, according to the disclosure, one of the men who
was captured claim~ed that the woman had nothing to do with the drug traf-
ficking in which the others were implicated.
According to the authorities' statement, the value of the cocaine which was -
seized on 15 May was estimated at about $10 million.
'The sources aid that Marleny Or~uela Sanchez left the Good Shepherd facility
on Saturday of last week, but this was not known until yesterday.
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Investigation of Release Demanded -
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanisfi ~.1 Jun 80 Sec A pp l, 2
[Text] The news of the release of the so-called "cocaine queen", Marleny
Sanchez, evoked several comments, while the minister of justice, Felio
Andrade Manrique, announced the opening of investigations of each of the
agencies associated with the battle against drug trafficking. ~
The official said that the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation will
start an investigation to establish . the presumed liability of the judge
who was responsible for the probe involving the arrest and subsequent re-
lease of Marleny Sanchez.
The woman was captured by the Attorney General's Office's Anti-Narcotics
Group, in an operation carried out in three different locations in Bogota
on 15 May of this year, wherein four otl:er individuals were arrested. _
Information available to EL TIEMPO indicates that Marleny Sanchez Orjuela was
released on 24 May, 9 days after her arrest, and not last Saturday, as was
reported yesterday.
The 48th judge of criminal proceedings, Leonor Izquierdo de Pava, an offi-
cial who was responsible for carrying ~ut the investigative action, refused to
~ supply any information concerning the probe and claimed that she could not
say anything owing to the confidentiality of the proceedings.
The woman's release caused differing reactions among judges and jurists, who
agreed in stating that the haste of the secre t agencies responsible for con-
ducting the probes causes them to submit incomplete reports to the judges,
and allows the drug traffickers opportunities to evade the action of the
cour ts .
- EL TIEMPO learned that the woman was released "for lack of evidence," be-
cause another individual under arrest claimed to be the one responsible for
the drug trafficking.
At 1200 hours yesterday, the minister of justice met with Luis Eduardo Alava,
the secretary general of the ministry and its deputy minister; Alvaro Porras,
chief of criminal proceedings; Jorge Garzon, representative of the Office of
the Attorney General of the Nation; Miguel Sanchez Mendez, chief of the Ju-
dicial Police of the Attorney General's Office; Col Yassin Yanine, represen-
- tative of F-2; Manuel Guillermo Silva Gonzalez, head of the DAS [Administra-
tive Department of Security); Victor Camacho, delegate-prosecutor for judi-
cial vigilance; and Gilberto Orozco, manager of the Rotating Fund of the Mi-
nis try of Justice.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Minister Andrade made brief statements to .
newsmen regarding the release of the "cocaine queen."
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He said that the pertinent officials would conduct their respective investi-
gation~ to establish liauility, adding: "We are doing the same."
~ In response to a question about what specifically was discussed at the meet- -
ing itself, Minister Felio Andrade confined himself to replying: "It is a
private matter."
= With regard to a possible defect in the investigation in which Marleny San-
_ chez Or juela was implicated, the minister of justice said that this will -
not be learned until the in~cstigation has been finished.
_ When asked whe ther the j udge who released the "cocaine queen" would be inves-
- tigated, the minister said that the officials of the Attorney Gr:neral's Of-
fice would act in accordance with legal regulations,
~ Moreover, there had been a rumor of a possibility of the government's abolish-
- ing the Anti-Narcotics Group of the Attorney General's Office, one of the
agencies responsible for investigating drug traffickers which has brought
positive results. The minister of justice answered with a laconic "I don't
_ thinlc so" ~ahen he was asked whether the rumor was true,
_ TYie release of the "cocaine queen" was described by the Office of the Attor-
ney General of the Nation as an injustice toward jus~t2ce itself,while at the
- same time it appointed a special investigator to check into the aforemention-
- ecijudicial procedure.
_ A spokesman for the public ministry declared: "It is not fair that, after a
~ year of work by the members of the Anti-Narcotics Group of the Atto-rney Ge-
- neral's Of fice to conduct the operation and capture the 'cocaine queen,' a
' jud~e orders her release in 9 days, based only on the statement of one of
the accused."
Despite th~. absence from the city of both the attorney general, Guillermo Gon-
zalez Charry, and the delegdte prosecutor for the Judicial Police., Ma.rio
Restrepo Tafur, an official who directed the operation, the Public Ministry _
appointed a snecial official to investigate the judicial procedure whereby
the drug trafficker was released.
~
Carlos Cantillo Ballen, the institution's press chief, announced that the of-
fice of the delegate-prosecutor for judicial vigilance named Attorney Pablo
Rincon to make this investigation, which was beg~n yesterday afternoon in the
. office of the 48th judge of criminaJ proceedings.
~antillo Ballen declared: "The manner in which the ~udge acted is unprecedent-
ed. The officials from the Attorney General's Office turned over a report
on the captures of the accused with a wealth of detai.l. It is an injustice
against justice itself, when the Anti-Narcotics Group has spared no effort
in ttie battle against drugs."
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I
~
Bribery
The agents from the Attorney General's Office who carried out the operation
in which the ring was captured stated, in turn, that "the trafficker got
what she wanted."
'They reported that they had received an offer of a bribe of 40 million pesos,
a sum which the traffickers offered them to release the head of the ring and
free her from association. When the agents refused, the woman told the men
undeY her supervision to stop insisting, claiming that if they did not ag-
ree she would secure her release within a few days; which is what actually
happened.
Disciplinary Trial for Judge '
Bogota EL TIEr1P0 in Spanish 20 Jun 80 Sec C p 6
~ [Text] The office of the delegate-prosecutor for judicial vigilance decided
to check copies of the action that has been taken in the disciplinary trial
, of the 48th judge of criminal proceedings, Leonor Izquierdo de Pava, in the
Penal Court of the Bogota Superior Court, for presumed irregularities on
the part of the judicial official who decided not to issue a writ of detention -
against Marleny Orjuela Sanchez, the so-called "cocaine queen," and Luis A1-
ber to Yepes M~orales .
The action of the 48th judge aroused a wave of protests from investigative
sectors and government agencies.
Under these circumstances, the office of the delegate prosecutor decided to
initiate a disciplinary trial against the judge.
In another action also related to drugs, the office of the delegate prose-
cutor opened an investigation in the 79th court of criminal proceedings to _
determine the situation created in that court upon the release of all those
accused of drug trafficking who were caught in the act of cocaine posses-
sion on a property located in the municipality of T~bacuy.
The action of the prosecutor's office was started following a complaint sub-
mitted to the entity by the sectional director of criminal proceedings,
_ Jorge Alonso Horta Cortes.
In the ICBF [Colombian Family Welfare Institute]
The delegate prosecutor for administrative contracting, Alvaro Lecompte Lur.a,
- initiated a disciplinary trial in the Colombian Family Welfare Institute for
presumed illegal handling of the public bidding opened for the purchase, in-
stallation and opening of a plant designed to manufacture.a product for im-
proving the nutrition of the Colombian population with a lower income.
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In Cesar, the same delegate prosecutor opened an investigation in the govern-
- ment based on a complaint lodged by some deputies to the departn~ental assem-
bl.y of presumed irregularities in the awarding of public bids on the distri-
bution, purckiase and sale of liquors manufactured by the Caldas Liquor Indus-
try throughout th2 entire department,
In the same location, the office of the first delegate prosecutor for admin-
_ istrative vigilance is in~.~es tigating presumed irre gularities relating to se-
veral cases ofseizure of goods, possibly contraband, which were placed at
the disposal of. the government and then turned over to their owners, without
an accounting to the customs penal court.
Fi.nally, at the request of the Penal Court of the Supreme Court of JusL-ice,
the prosecutor's office is conducting a disciplinary probe of possible irre-
gular conduct on the part of a former customs penal judge (whose name was `
not given in the official report), for having released an individual accused
of smuggling in an apparently illegal manner,
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COLOMBIA
BRIEFS
COCAINE IN GAS CYLINDERS--Yesterday, the Anti-Narcotics Group.of the Office
of the Attorney General of the Nation confiscated a cocaine shipment arriv-
ing from Leticia in an airplane belonging to the Aeropesca company. The
drugs had been shipped camouflaged under two oxygen cylinders in the name of
Luis Mendez, a resident of Bogota, When the cylinders were uncapped, 12 ,
kilograms of very pure cocaine were found inside of them. This is the se-
- cond blow to the drug traffickers,whose base is located in the capital of
~ Amazonas, within less than 3 days. The alkaloid is worth 15 million pesos.
[Text] [Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 20 Jun 80 Sec B p 6] 2909
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MEXICO
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS DOING WORK OF 'INEPT' FJP
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 28 May 80 Sec B p 5
[Text] An ex-convict who served long sentences for.drug trafficking in the
"La Loma" prison, but whose name is being withheld by the federal authorities,
has been fully identified as the owner of the marihuana shipment seized by
the Federal Public Ministry agent, Nicolas Martinez Cerda, at the "Lomas de
Jarachina" development in Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
Martinez Cerda claimed yesterday that prosecutor Regino Vargas, who is head
of the AMPF [Federal Public Ministry Agency) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, is now
making the preliminary penal investigation relating to the seizure of 1,100
kilograms of marihuana,
He added that, on MAnday and yesterday, the federal prosecutor's office con-
ducted countless interrogations of witnesses who were present when the ex-
convict, accompanied by several gunmen, parked the mobile home on the grounds
of a residence located in the "Lomas de Jarachina" development.
- At the time, it was reported that Martinez Cerda, upon s.earching the afore-
mentioned mobile home, found over 700 kilograms of cannabis indica in it, as
well as 400 kilograms located in two rooms.
The house was rented by a woman whose name was not given,to the individual who
is now in custody for drug trafficking activity. -
Federal Prosecutor Martinez Cerda concluded by saying: "At the proper time.the
respective~ warrant will be issued for the arrest of the person or persons
who prove to be presumed guilty of committing a crime against health as a
- result of the preliminary penal investigation that is being conducted."
Martinez Cerda claimed that he confiscated the drugs owing to the ineptitude
of the Federal Judicial Police," who have protected themselves with the ex- -
cuse that there are no longer any traffickers in the area," and that, there-
fore, the federal prosecutors are personally conducting investigations of
crimes against health.
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MBXICO
INTENSIVE SEARCH FOR ESCAPED TRAFFICKERS DESCRIBED
Ciudad Juarez EL F'RONTERIZO in Spanish 30 Mar 80 pp 1, 10
[ExcerptsJ At the order of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic,
all members of the Federal Judicial Police will cooperate.in the search and
capture of the inmates who escaped from the munici.pal prison, nearly all of
whom are drug traffickers.
The foregoing announcement was made by the prison warden, Mr Francisco Esqui-
vel, who said that the Federal Judicial Police administration ordered the es-
tablishment of checkpoints in all strategic areas, in an attempt to recapture ~
these convicts who are dangerous and armed.
He added that special vigilance would be exercised in the places of origin of
each escapee, because it is considered certain that they will try to reach
locations where they can seek protection from their relatives and friends.
Mr Esquivel said that, locally, there is cooperation from the Federal Judicial
Police with its forces detailed to this town, the State Judicial Police, and
the agents of the Special Services of the General Police Inspector's Office;
and, on the state level, from all members of the State Police (Rural Police). _
The facilities which the prisoners enjoyed enabling them to roam freely through-
out the entire prison, as well as the use of the signal to announce mealtimes,
were the deciding factors in the escape of 10 inmates which took place yester-
day morning.
What is still shrouded in the most complete mystery is the way in which the
inmates became armed.
The escape was made by nine inmates, all sentence-d for crimes against health;
and, taking advantage of the confusion, Crispin Morales, a"hatchet-man" who
is incarcerated for theft, also managed to escape for a few minutes. Morales
was caught a few minutes later, and did not put up any resistance.
Yesterday a.fternoon, while this report was being written, all the police forc-
es were "combing" the entire Loma Blanca area, where the fugitives are thought -
to be hiding. "
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This was l~eing done on l~nd and in the air, with the cooperation of the El
Paso authorities, who are giving assistance with their air surveillance,
providing a helicopter and a Border Patrol small airplane.
The inmates, who made their escape at about 0800 hours, are the following: -
CesareU Salomon, alias Rosauro Esparza, jailed for crimes against health, who
- was about to be sentenced. He is claimed to be the most dangerous, because
there were many suits pending against him for murder in other parts of the
republic. Federal agents stated that he is responsible for 15 deaths, a1-
though he admitted to only three of them.
Pablo Carrillo Frontes, who was serving a 6-year sentence for crimes against
health.
- Jose Hernandez, was serving a sentence of 5 years and 6 months for the same
r..rime; and Al.fredo Medina, who received a 6-year sentence, also for the same
offense.
Octavio Lerma Castro was serving a 5-year sentence, also for crimes against
health.
Lorenzo Chavira was serving the same sentence; and Jose Loiza Barraza, accused
of crimes against health, had not yet been sentenced.
The p~ison director, Francisco Esquivel, stated that he.was contacted at about
083~ hours, and informed of what had happened, claiming that this was all he
knew. ,
_ Since it comes within the jurisdiction of the Federal Judicial Police, because
federal prisoners are involved, agents from that department. were conducting
the investigation yesterday.
~
It will be the Federal Judicial Police agents who must determine whether there
was any collaboration on the part of the prison personnel in the escape.
It was commented in police circles that, unfortunately, a chain is broken at
its weakest linlc, and therefore the guards have been taken into custody since
yesterday morning.
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These are the nine prisoners who made a violent escape yesterday morning from
the prison. All have been tried for crimes against health, except Jesus Her-
nandez. All have their respective identifications. Rosauro Esparza is also
known as Cesareo Salomon, and he is per.haps the most dangerous, because there
are many suits pending against him for murder. He has even been charged with
15 deaths.
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MEXICO
VARIOUS DRUG SEIZURES IN TAMAULIPAS, COAHUILA REPORTED
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 27 May 80 Sec B p 5 -
[Text] In various investigations conducted by the Federal Judicial Police in
_ towns located in Tamaullpas and Coahuila, they succeeded in confiscating drugs
(cocaine, psychotropic substances, marihuana and seeds), as well as a shipment
of weapons of different calibers, while at the same time arresting a dozen in-
c~ividuals .
This announcement was made yesterday by the agency of the Federal Public Min-
istry, which stressed that, in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Rodrigo Cardenas Davila, -
- a resident of 107 Lampazos, was arrested, and two packages of cocaine, one
containing 25 grams and the other 2.3 grams, were seized from him.
The arrest of Cardenas Davila has prompted exhaustive investigations, because
it was claimed to be quite likely that a well organized ring of drug smugg~ers
, will be broken up and its members captured at any moment.
Moreover, in Tampico, at the "E1 Cliairol" bridge, Ricardo Villarreal Chapa and
Miguel Celedonio Cobos Martinez we~.e arrested as they were riding in a 1979
Ford pickup truck in which they �:.-~:re carrying two 22 caliber rifles, a 20 ca-
liber shotgun and ammunition of various sizes, all owned by the first-named
individual.
Miguel Celedoniu was carrying a 38 caliber automatic pistol on his belt, with
a magazine filled with bullets and a box containing more ammunitiun.
In Torreon, the agents were about to capture a"small-time trafficker," who
was unidentified and who managed to escape; but, at the same time, he left
behind a package containing 44 joints of marihuana, which he had been offering
for sale.
The Federal Prosecutoc`s Office reported that, in Saltillo, Javier Eduardo
Villasana Murguia, Gonzalo Narro Garcia and Ruben Adrian Cruz Treviac were -
captured. Found in their possession were toxic pills, a bag of mariliuana,
a hypodermic needle and a gxass vial containing r_annabis indi~ca seed. ,
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CSO: 5330
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MEXICO
- ANTIDRUG CAI~AIGN RESEARCH LABORATORY DESCRIBED
Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 31 Mar 80 p 5
1
[Text] In ~rder to have the necessary facilities available for its work, the
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic is completing the outfitting of
a special laboratory which will operate in conjunction with the expert ser-
vices on the regional level, and will be the first of its kind in Latin Ame-
rica.
Heading this important department are engineer Sergio Joel Zapata Ibarra and
chemist Jose Luis Ayala Diaz. They will be in charge of the laboratory, which
will deal with three objectives:
a. Through research, to improve the current chemical methods and to determine -
the biological ones for the destruction of drug plantations.
b. To estabJ.ish the necessary measures for preserving the ecological balance
in the spraying areas; and,
c. To investigate wild plant species with a high alkaloid content, so as to _
determine preventive measures for controlling them.
In this regard, we were tolti by engineer Zapata ~barra that the Attorney Ge-
neral's Office is attempting, throu~h this means, to be more preventive than
combative and trying to eliminate the cause rather than the effect, thereby
making considerable progress in the constant battle against the growing and
harvesting of hallucinogenic plants.
Moreover, Hector Aviles Castillo, coordinator for Zone 006 of the Permanent
Campaign Against Drug Trafficking, told EL SOL DE SINALOA that the special
laboratory of the Attorney General's Office will go into service on 1 April
of this year. Its functions will be to make studies of the ecology, to de-
termine the output per square meter of the poppy and marihuana plants, the _
number of bulbs that each poppy shrub contains and the quality of the product
- itself, all aimed at seeking the proper means of combating their planting and
harves ting .
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Aviles Castillo said that all the chemical analyses of the confiscated sub-
stances would be made officially, because a particular attempt is being made
to relieve the Health Center in Culiacan of problems which are preventing it
from performing its woric normally.
The concern of the attorney general of justice, Oscar Flores Sanchez, as well
as of the department's senior officer, Fernando Baeza Melendez, is evident
from the supplies of equipment that will be in service in this important la-
boratory; because the~.~ajority. are the most advanced that have existed in
that area to date, according to the Zone 006 coordinat~r.
List of Apparatus and Its Use
In the laboratory there will be a gas chromatograph with which alkaloids and -
toxic residue, and accumulations of herbicides in plants, drugs and water will
be detected. There will be a spectrophoto device for ultraviolet and infra-
red light, to be used to verify the formulas of the herbicides being used,
with different wave lengths.
There will also be an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, to be used to de-
termine the chemical elements in the soil, as engineer 'Lapata Ibarra explain-
- ed; as well as a fine layer chromatograph, which will be used to make qualita-
tive analyses of residue of herbicides in plants and water.
Our informant added: "We shall have the Kjeldhal devir.e for making quantita-
tive analyses of nitrogenated substances; the Wheatstone bridge wiil be used -
to determine the electrical conductivity of the chemical substances; and the
_ potentiometer will determine the alkalinity and acidity of the chemical sub-
_ stance~. A11 these are necessary instruments for performing rhe laboratory's
specific functions."
Insofar as personnel are concerned, the depar tment ann~unced that about 25
persons will be working there, including 20 technicians (holders of doctor of
science degrees in agriculture, agricultural engineers, degree-holders in eco-
nomics, statisticians and specialists in experimental design), and secreta-
ries .
Finally, the source's reporter was told that the laboratory facilities inside
the federal area located at the Bachigualato airport (beside the hangar of
the ACtorney General's Office) are now completely finished, requiring only ~
some minor details, as weli as part of the equipment, before they will be
ready to go into operation. -
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MEXICO
'EL ARTISTA' SENTENCED FOR STORAGE OF MARIHUANA
Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 10 May 80 Sec B p 3
[Text] The drug trafficker Artemio Gonzalez Pena, alias "El Artista," upon
being found guilty of committing a crime against helath, received a prison
sentence of 10 years and a fine of 30,000 pesos, or an additional 90 days'
incarceration.
The sentence was handed down by the second district judge, Cayetano Hernandez
Valencia, in trial No 47-977, arraigning Gonzalez Pena, who is confined in
the Social Rehabilitation Center in this border por~.
"E1 Artista" was found guilty of a crime against health in the degree of ma-
rihuana storage, and was notified yesterday of the decision issued against
him.
In his decision, Hernandez Valencia ordered that Artemio Gonzalez Pena was to
serve the 10-year sentence as soon as he completes the one that he has been
serving for a crime against health in trial No 17-979.
A few months ago, Artemio Gonzalez Pena was arrested by Federal Judicial Police
agents who carried out a warrant that had been issued for his arrest. -
Trial No 47-977 resulted from the incidents which occurred in October 1977,
when the Federal Judicial Police arres ted an individual named Celerino Pena
Garza, who had 405 bags of marihuana in storage, at the "Las Moritas" farm
in Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas.
On that occasion, Pena Garza stated tha t an individual named Artemio Gonzalez,
alias "El Artista," had left him in charge af the harmful shipment.
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found him guilty of a crime against health in the degree of marihuana s torage.
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['fext] Last Wednesday, four individuals who were exporting marihuana to the
United States were captured by Federal Judicial Police agents in the town
of Camargo, Tamaulipas.
':'~ie federal agents detailed to Nuevo Laredo first apprehended Rodrigo Flores
G~~rza, alias "El Yune," and Efrain Barrientos Trevino, as they were traveling,
quite carefree, in a 1977 Ford LTD, with Texas license plates NHN-701, in
- Camargo , Tamaulipas .
~ The federal agents f.ound 200 grams of marihuana in the vehicle and, upon be-
ing closely questioned, the two individuals in custody confessed that the
grass was part of a shipment of 250 kilograms of marihuana that they had
just taken across to the United States in a rubber raft. -
The tederal agents mobilized, and managed to seize a rubber raft, two scales -
tha~ they were using to weigh the drugs, seven bags containing traces of ma-
_ rihunaa and an airpump.
Continuing the investigatian, the federal agents arrested the owner of the
drug shipr.ient that was sent to the United States. The individual under ar-
rest is named Juan de Dios Garza Hernandez, and he was accompanied by Juan
= Rodriguez Mpntalvo.
Garza Hernandez was riding in a 1978 Chevrolet van, in which traces of mari-
huana were found. A 38 caliber Browning squad pi5tol was seized from the _
same individual.
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