Menendez Drug Bust event
also: Menendez's drug bust, simultaneous raids on Menendez's drug ring
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Enrique Miranda Jamieperson · 2Roger Mayorgaperson · 1United Statescountry · 1Managuaplace · 1Marcos Aguardoperson · 1Nicaraguan National Policeorganization · 1Frank Virgilperson · 1
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Nicaraguan National Police carried_out_attack
Menendez Drug Bust documented
“No one else in government, especially not the DEA, would be informed about anything. Their agents were sworn to secrecy and was given little advance notice of any operation. The precautions paid off. On Sunday morning in early November 1991…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:10:17
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▶ 1:10:17
No one else in government, especially not the DEA, would be informed about anything. Their agents were sworn to secrecy and was given little advance notice of any operation. The precautions paid off. On Sunday morning in early November 1991…
▶ 1:10:46
Norwin's engineers in the act of welding cocaine filled PVC pipes into the frames of an auto transport trailer. A couple of Mercedes were already in the process of being altered to include 130 kilos of cocaine. In the bedroom of Miranda's m…
▶ 1:11:15
kind of bundled up to fit into these compartments underneath of blankets. In an abandoned military bunker, they found more kilos packed in air conditioners and television boxes that had the address of Menendez's auto hotel. In all, the Nica…
▶ 1:11:42
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.…
▶ 1:12:28
In an interview, he denied knowing how Menendez would be using the trailer, although Miranda said that he was present when Aguardo and Menendez discussed using it to traffic drugs. Menendez's drug bust was major news in Central America. It …