Torres brothers person
also: Torres, Torres brother, Torreses, the brothers, one of the Torres brothers, The Torres brothers
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Claims (11)
Daniel Blanton trafficked
Torres brothers host_asserted
“There was a fight on TV and Danielle and I went over there to watch it. I was staying at a hotel and that's when I first met the Torres brothers. And Blanton was working with them and under the belief that he was involved with narcotics wit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 42:20
Jerry Gazzetta recruited
Torres brothers host_asserted
“It was arranged that Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for the Torreses to plead guilty to drug charges under false names. They were given suspended sentences, put on probation and turned over to Gazzetta, who was assigned as th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 29:26
Torres brothers trafficked
Medellin Cartel host_asserted
“It was mind boggling. They revealed a drug ring that was dumping hundreds of kilos of cocaine every week into black neighborhoods in L.A., generating truckloads of cash. The confidential informant had admitted laundering up to a hundred mil…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 30:53
Daniel Blanton trafficked
Torres brothers host_asserted
“Guzetta listened with his mouth open as the brothers rattled off names, dates, delivery sites, and routes of transportation. The two black dealers in South Central, they reported, are generating a conservative figure of $10 million a month.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 33:51
Rick and Ollie trafficked
Torres brothers host_asserted
“Guzetta listened with his mouth open as the brothers rattled off names, dates, delivery sites, and routes of transportation. The two black dealers in South Central, they reported, are generating a conservative figure of $10 million a month.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 33:51
Jerry Gazzetta exposed
Torres brothers host_asserted
“to get a search warrant for the addresses of the Torres brothers. On August 11, 1986, Guzeta and his federal friends raided them. They hit the jackpot. They found $400,000 in a closet of one of the houses. That was fair change. But Torreses…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 26:56
Torres brothers laundered_money_for
Medellin Cartel host_asserted
“It was mind boggling. They revealed a drug ring that was dumping hundreds of kilos of cocaine every week into black neighborhoods in L.A., generating truckloads of cash. The confidential informant had admitted laundering up to a hundred mil…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 30:53
Daniel Blanton supplied_arms_to
Torres brothers host_asserted
“Guzetta listened with his mouth open as the brothers rattled off names, dates, delivery sites, and routes of transportation. The two black dealers in South Central, they reported, are generating a conservative figure of $10 million a month.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 33:51
Jerry Gazzetta exposed
Torres brothers host_asserted
“While they made the rounds, dropping off dope, picking up cash from the customers in South L.A., the reliability of the confidential informants were substantiated. Gio reported to his bosses a few days later. Under the control of Detective …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 32:20
Jerry Gazzetta exposed
Torres brothers host_asserted
“He had observed the movement of 750,000, 230,000, 130,000, and 150,000, respectively. Guzetta began compiling his debriefing notes into a series of reports. He titled it Project Sahara because he figured the Torreses could help dry up the c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 32:50
Torres brothers supplied_arms_to
Floyd "Freeway" Rick Ross book_quoted
“because they shared heritage with this new profession. He sold Ivan a little cocaine every once in a while when he couldn't find it at other places. The Torres brothers, the two giant guys with the car lot, also had gotten into the cocaine …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 41:24
Mentions (20)
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as much as a million dollars in the bank, Guzetta said. The federal agents approached Guzetta and asked him if he wouldn't mind helping because one of the banks was in the city of Vell. Guzetta began talking to the depositors, which was eas…
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They were also Daniello Blanton's associates. The Torres brothers were running all over L.A., picking up packages, dropping off packages, and making strange nighttime trips to South Central Los Angeles. Guzetta discovered one of them was on…
▶ 26:56
to get a search warrant for the addresses of the Torres brothers. On August 11, 1986, Guzeta and his federal friends raided them. They hit the jackpot. They found $400,000 in a closet of one of the houses. That was fair change. But Torreses…
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hidden in nondescript rental houses around the city. The raid didn't produce any cocaine. Guzetta said that the brothers disclaimed ownership of the $400,000, handing it over to the feds, which satisfied the two, Gio and Knudsen. They seize…
▶ 27:56
because all they really had on them was a currency violation. Even if they were convicted, they'd pull three years at the most and be out in a year and a half. But Guzzetto wasn't willing just to let the brothers loose. If he couldn't put t…
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who were close relatives of the Medellin cartel boss, Pablo Escobar. In his 1996 interview, Norwin Menendez confirmed the relationship between the women and Escobar. Guzeta said Torreses were informed that no charges would be filed against …
▶ 28:55
and then deported as undesirable aliens and never allowed back into the United States. To the rest of the world, it would seem like the brothers had sacrificed their women to save themselves. That would have been their Latin culture. Even w…
▶ 29:26
It was arranged that Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for the Torreses to plead guilty to drug charges under false names. They were given suspended sentences, put on probation and turned over to Gazzetta, who was assigned as th…
▶ 29:54
that if anyone found out that they were informants, including their girlfriends, they would be killed. During a debriefing in August of 1986, the Torreses told Rosetta that they were convinced their girlfriends had already hired assassins. …
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The informants advised if they were found dead in some other location, that it was their girlfriends that had contracted their killing. That's crazy. That the method which would probably be used was lethal injection of drugs to show up as a…
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extravagant claims but this took the cake he said no one he had questioned claimed to have 500 million dollars laying around these guys were right off the streets they had absolutely no credibility as far as i was concerned guzetta said to …
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He had observed the movement of 750,000, 230,000, 130,000, and 150,000, respectively. Guzetta began compiling his debriefing notes into a series of reports. He titled it Project Sahara because he figured the Torreses could help dry up the c…
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police investigators 10 years later in 1996. Basically, there was one major market which informant, and he puts the numbers for the Torres brothers, are dealing with, which was for the sale of the black market in South Central Los Angeles. …
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Ricky Ross confirmed that Blanton had an uncanny ability to accurately predict upcoming police raids, but said he was never able to explain his clairvoyance. The Torres brother told Gazzetta that Blanton was working with the Laguna Beach po…
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What looked to be an independent street cottage industry was actually the bottom rung of a carefully managed organization. That came as a revelation. Analyzing the information provided by the Torres brothers, the majors reached some frighte…
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Between 90 and 91, Blanton estimated he provided somewhere between 425 kilos of cocaine to Menendez's family in San Francisco, which amounted to about $8 million at wholesale prices. Blanton also began putting his L.A. connections back toge…
▶ 41:52
and they knew he'd hired a hitman to kill him after he was convinced that one of them had been sleeping with his wife, the old friends let bygones be bygones and started buying and selling from each other. Rafael Correo recalled visiting th…
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LAPD Sergeant Ron Hodges heard a similar story while working his own case against Blanton in 91. Hodges, a narcotic detective who was also working with the Torres brothers, was attempting to arrange a hand-to-hand sale with Blanton when he …
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because they shared heritage with this new profession. He sold Ivan a little cocaine every once in a while when he couldn't find it at other places. The Torres brothers, the two giant guys with the car lot, also had gotten into the cocaine …
▶ 41:55
That's where Ricky got his start, Blanton said. I know them well. You know, all of the Nicaraguan people. When I saw them getting rich, getting money, I wanted in too. If the Torres brothers were dealing with Ross, as Blanton claims, it is …