Julio Bermudez person
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Julio Bermudez trafficked
Norwin Menendez documented
“He had bought from Norwin Menendez. They also found $17,000 in a drug ledger bearing an entry 11-11-81, $90,000 to Herrera. Bermudez was hustled off to jail and Smith got her warrant for the Menendez house. On November 16th, the police hit…”
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The Nicaraguan, it appeared, had cocaine coming in from everywhere. Menendez had an endless supply of cocaine, from what I could see, Sandra said. In June of 81, Smith got a break in her case. Detective Joseph Lee of Baldwin Park Police in …
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the guy we were talking about last time, well, it says here he just has the same last name as Enrique, which is the guy we were talking about, sorry, was making two trips a month to San Francisco where he had contacts with large cocaine smu…
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was bringing down between 14 and 20 pounds of cocaine on each trip. Another informant reported that Bermudez called San Francisco and places his order by telephone before each trip. The police subpoenaed his phone records for the previous t…
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and a number belonging to Norwin's nephew, Herrero Menendez. It was enough for the Baldwin cops, along with the members of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and the U.S. Customs Service, to put a tail on Bermudez and stake out his house.…
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The cops followed, observing him stop to pick up another man, Jose Herrera, before heading to L.A.'s airport. The duo bought two one-way tickets to San Francisco and got there at 3.40 when DEA agent Smith picked up their surveillance. Smith…
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by an unidentified Latino man driving a gold Toyota with a car registered to Herrera, one of the traffickers. They drove to a small house and the three men went inside. After a bit, Bermudez came out, opened the trunk and got the briefcase …
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35 minutes later, though, the cops spotted the car in another part of the area parked outside Herrero Menendez's house. Bermudez came out two hours later and drove back to the first house. The sequence of events provided the cops with enoug…
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Convinced the family was a major trafficking organization, Smith said she asked her supervisor if she could work the case full time. The answer was not encouraging. He said, well, that sounds like a good idea. Who would run it? She laughed …
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Defense lawyers had to get a court order to force the Justice Department to reveal that the 1981 searches targeting Herrero Menendez and Julio Bermudez had even occurred. After the lawyers got the files, they accused the FBI of serious misr…
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Excuse me. Menendez Network in Los Angeles was still struggling. So he had a couple of dealers there. In late 1981, there was an arrest and subsequent flight of his West Covina dealer, Julio Bermudez. He had been moving about 20 kilos a mon…