Majors Drug Task Force organization
also: Majors 2
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So back to the Torres brothers, providing intelligence and letting the cops follow them around was one thing. But if the investigation was going to progress beyond that level, the L.A. drug team called the majors had to be sure that the two…
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The majors burst in, yelling and waving their guns. Jamie Ramos and the blue gym bag were found in the bedroom. It was stuffed with $120,000 in small bills and $100,000 in cashier's checks. In a closet, they found a suitcase with six more n…
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At another house, a brown suitcase contained 17 kilos. Ramos, who had been carrying an ID from the Colombian military, and three other Colombians were arrested. The $2 million worth of dope and a quarter million dollars in cash, not bad for…
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One squad asked Detective John Edner to see what he could find out. Edner confirmed that Freeway Rick actually was real and his real name was Ricky Donnell Ross. While Edgar couldn't track him down, he did find Freeway Rick's girlfriend, Ma…
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On May 15, 1986, according to Stubblefield's brother, Steve, they kicked the door in, ransacked the apartment, arrested her, and beat Steve with a flashlight, telling him to pass a message to Freeway Rick that they were on to him. During th…
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Ricky's cousin, George Modlin, stopped by and the majors gave him the same warm welcome. Modlin showed up while they were in the process of searching the house. We had most of the subjects detained in the living room. Modlin shows up and go…
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In late August, the major one struck again, rousting two of Ross's cousins, Anthony and Eric Modlin, on suspicion of having stolen firearms. They didn't arrest them. They tuned them up, is what they referred to it. In other words, they beat…
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reverting back to his exclusive relationship with Daniello Blanton. His price were so low, you just couldn't compete. Ross and Blanton had become very close friends. While the Majors crew worked Ross's organization from the bottom up, Major…
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The Ramos bust had been impressive in terms of cocaine and cash, but ultimately it was a dead end. Despite Torres's claim that the Colombian was one of Ross's big suppliers, no evidence linked him directly to Ross. In later interviews with …
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The Ramos case was eventually plea bargained down to basically nothing. And they let a guy who we found with 230 pounds of coke plead to a five kilo bus and deported him. Gordon said later events led him to believe that Ramos had been a CIA…
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have been burned. It hadn't even started. The case was still sitting on the top of his desk. Nobody had done anything except run a couple of computer checks and no one besides Gary Gussetta and now the DEA even knew about the majors working…