Frank Virgil person
also: Frank Vigil, Varela, Villarreal, Virgil, Viril
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Claims (3)
Enrique Miranda Jamie trafficked
Frank Virgil host_asserted
“He was very nervous and denied everything. At that point, I decided to focus our investigation on him. Miranda unwittingly led the police to Frank Virgil, the former advertising man who allegedly dealt cocaine with Blanton in Los Angeles in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:04:17
Frank Virgil trafficked
Daniel Blanton host_asserted
“He was very nervous and denied everything. At that point, I decided to focus our investigation on him. Miranda unwittingly led the police to Frank Virgil, the former advertising man who allegedly dealt cocaine with Blanton in Los Angeles in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:04:17
Frank Virgil member_of
PZPSA host_asserted
“had just formed a new company in Managua in partnership with the major Colombian drug trafficker, Hector Roman Caravalle. Mayorga saw from the incorporation paperwork of the company, called PZPSA, that it had been put together by a prominen…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:04:46
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He was very nervous and denied everything. At that point, I decided to focus our investigation on him. Miranda unwittingly led the police to Frank Virgil, the former advertising man who allegedly dealt cocaine with Blanton in Los Angeles in…
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had just formed a new company in Managua in partnership with the major Colombian drug trafficker, Hector Roman Caravalle. Mayorga saw from the incorporation paperwork of the company, called PZPSA, that it had been put together by a prominen…
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of Norwin Menendez. The Chamorro government had recently returned it to Norwin Menendez. That's crazy. Mayorga surmised that Miranda was working for Menendez and Frank Virgil and that he suspected they were plotting to use the fishing compa…
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One September evening, Mrs. Menendez drove to a restaurant near her house called the Lobster Inn. A few minutes later, DEA agent Federico Varela arrived. Hot on the heels was Norwin Menendez. To the shock of the Nicaraguan police, Varel was…
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When his men excitedly returned from their stakeout with the news, Mayorga was dumbfounded. Viril was a senior agent with the USDA agent in Costa Rica. They had just met with Mayorga to discuss the idea of the DEA starting a formal cooperat…
▶ 1:09:47
and were trying to infiltrate the Nicaraguan National Police. Mayorga went to see his boss, Nicaraguan National Police Commander Rene Vivas, who shared his concerns. Checking with sources in Costa Rica, they learned that Menendez and Villar…
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worth about $15 million wholesale. They also found Uzi machine guns, pistols, California license plates, Menendez, his brother, and Frank Virgil, and the engineer craftsman that Norwin had hired were all arrested.…
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I thought he was just trying to impress me, but he insisted it was true. And I said I would find out myself. That the evening of the raids, Mayorga called the Costa Rican DEA office to inform Villarreal of the arrest. But since it was Sunda…
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He wants more information. I asked him what his special interest was in the case. After getting some evasive answers, Mayorga said he provided Villarreal with the basic facts and waited for the American to tell him about Menendez's relation…
▶ 1:15:21
When we arrested him and inside was the phone numbers to Ronald Lard, the DEA country attache in Costa Rica. I challenged Villarreal to explain this. He couldn't. When Mayorga told the DEA agent that his men had seen him during the Menendez…
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Managua drug traffickers who were in the process of bringing 725 kilos of cocaine into his country. And why hadn't the Nicaraguan police been informed? Villarreal simply lied, denying that he had met with the drug kingpin, even though there…
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Villarreal had met with Menendez two or three times in Managua, not just once. Yet Villarreal claims he can't remember any of those discussions. In the end, Villarreal placated Mayorga by providing him with some intelligence reports of Mene…
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The cocaine Hernandez was taking north was not Norwin's, he said. It was Frank Vigil's. He theorized that Menendez ratted out the shipment to calm the DEA's concern that he was dealing on the side. Villarreal made, so he set her up, in othe…
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Chepita was getting bigger with their second child every day and he was struggling to pay bills. He started a new job with another car lot, Roca Used Cars, and was also hustling rental cars. According to his friend, Frank Vigil, Blanton was…