Blanton Raid event
also: raid, search warrants, Blanton's raid
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Hector Varelasperson · 4Majorsorganization · 4Ron Listerperson · 4Daniel Blantonperson · 3Tom Gordonperson · 3Bobby Juarezperson · 2Richard Loveperson · 2Torres Brothersorganization · 2Jerry Gazzettaperson · 2Blanton's wife Chapitaperson · 1Laguna Beach Police Departmentorganization · 1Edward Hoffmanperson · 1Mission Viejoplace · 1Roberto Aguilarperson · 1Ronald Reaganperson · 1Wolfbrandperson · 1Washington, D.C.place · 1Danielle Ganserperson · 1Costa Ricacountry · 1San Bernardino Sheriff's Departmentorganization · 1Riverside County Sheriff's Departmentorganization · 1Los Angelesplace · 1Ilopangoplace · 1Joe Kelsoperson · 1
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“George and I flew to Costa Rica and began interviewing police officials, lawyers, prosecutors, contras about Menendez's activity, fleshing out his role as a DEA informant and his drug operations connections to Oliver North's resupply networ…”
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▶ 12:22
The next day, October 24th, Gordon conducted a lengthy pre-raid briefing in the Sheriff's Training Center, handing out the raid plan, briefing booklets, and raid assignments to include radio frequencies and establishing command centers. As …
▶ 12:52
There was going to be basically a 30-day prep culminating in executing the search warrants that were going to be served at 14 locations in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Bernardino counties. The briefing books outlined the entire plan.…
▶ 14:16
He was considered to be extremely dangerous. Several of the officers distinctly recall being warned that the federal government was unhappy that the Majors was going ahead with the raids. Deputy Wolfbrand said Gordon reported that he had be…
▶ 16:13
Around 7 a.m. on October 27, the raid teams gathered in their designated staging areas, taking their last few drinks of coffee, putting on bulletproof vests. As they methodically went through their final preps, coincidentally, another kind …
▶ 17:11
Four big cars roared up to Blanton's elegant home, and 11 heavily armed men wearing flak jackets bailed out. They quickly surrounded the house and banged on the front door, telling the occupant that they had a search warrant. We'd certainly…
▶ 19:16
They slapped handcuffs on both Blanton and his wife, read them the rights, and marched them out. As the suspects were being taken from the location to be booked, suspect number one, Daniello Blanton, spontaneously stated, the cocaine is min…
▶ 19:45
Location after location coming up dry. Some of the houses looked as if they'd been scrubbed clean. One officer reported finding an empty safe with a garden hose running to it. In other words, it was a cocaine stash that had been cleaned out…
▶ 20:14
was one of the L.A. agents assigned to Blanton's raid. He accompanied the team that hit Roberto Aguilar's house, who was the chemist that Blanton used. There was a safe at the house which the occupants were told to open. Bareilles told the …
▶ 20:43
big drug dealers kept. The photographs were of men in military uniforms and conducting military operations. The agent specifically recalled seeing a photograph of a man in an aviator's flight suit standing in front of a warplane holding an …
▶ 21:10
They didn't say how they knew, Barilla said, but he'd heard the CIA may have monitored the Blanton's case through the DEA's office, from which the CIA, among other agencies, had access. The word started circulating among the raiders. Someth…
▶ 26:49
Juarez and his crew went to Lister's new house and performed a soft knock. Since they didn't have a warrant for that particular address, they needed Lister's permission to search it. Lister answers the door. He was told, if you don't give m…
▶ 31:46
Throughout the afternoon, the deputies compared notes and concluded that they had been had. Someone burned us. After the search warrants had been served, the word among the investigators was the operation had been compromised. It appeared t…
▶ 32:18
Federal agents had burned the investigation, pointing out that previous raids they had conducted on the basis of Torres Brother information always produced large amounts of cocaine and money. The only difference between this raid and those …
▶ 32:49
Unquote. In a case chronology prepared in late 1986, Majors II supervisor Sergeant Ed Hoffman noted that the item seized, such as the scales, weights, cocaine cutting agents, indicated cocaine activity. The small amount of cocaine seized is…
▶ 33:20
The Torres brothers would claim that the investigation was uncovered by Lister, who spotted police surveillance teams outside of Blanton's car lot and near his old home in Mission Viejo. Lister told the police that the CIA was involved and …
▶ 1:06:15
and 3,000 pages of one secret document about the Blanton raid that had just been released by L.A. County Sheriff's Office. I also wrote a sidebar on Joe Kelso's attempt to investigate allegations of DEA drug trafficking in Costa Rica, altho…
▶ 1:06:42
We had DEA records saying Blanton had sent the money to the Contras far longer than we had previously reported. We had a top CIA official admitting that the agency had reports of drug trafficking at Ilopango. We had evidence of Ronald Liste…