Posted on 05/16/2014 5:23:55 AM PDT by drpix
DETROIT (WWJ) – The leaders of a large-scale drug ring fled Monday, according to federal authorities, before they were found guilty of drug charges in Detroit federal court.
It was one of the largest heroin and cocaine rings in metro Detroit history, prosecutors said, but before a jury handed down guilty verdicts, three convicted in the case — 39-year-old Carlos Powell of Washington Township; 36-year-old Eric Powell of Franklin Farms; and 38-year-old Earnest Proge of Detroit — all took off.
Deputy U.S. Marshall Rob Watson said the three were able to get away because they were out on bond. {Miniscule Amount Censored}.
(Excerpt) Read more at detroit.cbslocal.com ...
Leni
Ironically, not only are their options for nations with no extradition treaties with the US strictly limited, but now they have the US Marshals Service after them.
“In 2012, U.S. marshals captured over 36,000 federal fugitives and cleared over 39,000 fugitive warrants.”
Basically, it is like having a division of Terminator robots after you. And, btw, they are authorized to basically kidnap Americans overseas that have federal warrants out on them.
In the early 1970’s, there was a guy who called himself Colonel Hassan Jeru-Ahmed who was probably part of that “Moorish” group, as he dubbed himself a “Moor.” He snookered Richard Cotten of the Conservative Viewpoint broadcast into supporting him and in the spring of 1971 conned the federal government into a six-figure grant for his “Blackman’s Volunteer Liberation Army,” a private army that he was setting up. However, shortly afterwards, he disappeared from the news.
Eddie Kendricks? How about The Modern Mountaineers? Or Ina Ray Hutton?
But those accounts are across the river in Canuckistan along with the racistly suspected suspects.
I was shocked that no politician was involved. And then I read the story.
“A fourth defendant, 54-year-old Kenneth Daniels — a former State Representative for Detroit Fifth’s District — was convicted of structuring financial transactions for the drug ring leader, Carlos Powell”
My faith in Detroit politics is restored.
And he was the one criminal who showed up.
I guess at his age and visibility, he gave up the idea of running.
Anyway, looks like the gov got what it came for in any case:
agents seized 66 pounds of heroin, 12 kilograms of cocaine, 1,000 pounds of marijuana and more than $21 million in cash... $800,000 worth of jewelry, real estate in Michigan and Georgia and luxury vehicles, including two Bentleys, a Ferrari, a Rolls Royce, and boats.
"Now get hopping and sling some drugs, we'll come back and seize your assets again in a few years."
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