Posted on 05/23/2022 10:44:33 AM PDT by Ebenezer
(Translation)
U.S. Attorney Héctor Carbó announced that a Grand Jury issued indictments against 15 people for reportedly conspiring to possess and distribute cocaine in Puerto Rico and the United States.
"From the year 2020 until around March 202 (sic), the accused conspired to distribute large quantities of cocaine in and outside Puerto Rico and the continental United States. According to the investigation, the accused would send cocaine to Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Alabama, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York, among others. The co-conspirators would meet at cockfights throughout Puerto Rico where they would formalize relationships with other people interested in the buying and selling of narcotics, make agreements to buy, transfer, and sell kilograms of cocaine, used the United States Postal Service and private delivery companies to transport cocaine to several places in the United States. When they used private shipping and handling companies, they hid the kilos in industrial-sealant pails, household items, board games, among others," Carbó said.
"Other co-conspirators located in the continental United States would receive the cocaine shipments and then distribute to other co-conspirators. These would collect the profits from the cocaine sales in the United States and send them to Puerto Rico, using the mail at times. Also, through transfers with intermediaries in the United States or through a shipment where the intermediary in the United States received the money from the profits and gave a type of token to the person in Puerto Rico in charge of picking up the money, and would be told to show up to the place where the money would be given," he added.
According to the U.S. Attorney, the individuals used vehicles with hidden compartments to hide and transport the money.
"One of the accused was a postal employee who would be absent from work to engage in these activities," [Carbó] maintained.
As part of the operation, about $930 and several motor vehicles were confiscated.
If found guilty, [the accused] face between 10 years and life imprisonment.
Puerto Rico ping
Hi.
This is a rumor...
There is cock fighting from the Leigh High Valley to Johnston via Pittsburgh.
Big money...is also a rumor.
No, I don’t know anything that is a fact.
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A few years ago I recall reading they busted up a ring in AZ where they were using wrens to fight since using chickens was illegal.
I hope Little Jerry made it out okay!!!
Im shocked, shocked to find drug dealing going in this cock fighting establishment.
Good. I am glad they cleaned up the border crisis so they could move on to the local gangsters.
Right. Who would have thought this type of activity was going on in a classy joint like a cockfighting arena?
Anything to be entertained watching two animals ripping each other apart.
I was flying into Cabo San Lucas, MX a couple months ago. There was an arena in the flight path near the airport. I asked a guy next to me who said it was most likely a cock fighting arena. That, or dog fighting he said.
All cultures are equal.
Cocaine trade in the Caribbean is dominated by the Dominicans. When I was in St John last December I remarked to a local about all the Dominicans I saw walking around and he told me most of them were involved some way with the drug trade. Probably a local exaggerated prejudice but most of the time I hear about trafficking in the Caribbean Dominicans are involved.
Dogfighting was a popular past time among wealthy southerners back in the day. Uptight sanitized suburban culture is a post-war phenomenon. Not a fan of dogfighting but to single out other counties for such practices without looking at ourselves is something to be avoided. ;)
I went to a cockfight arena in San Juan. The arena was pretty nice, compared to what I expected. The other surprise was that they did not fight to the death; as soon as there was a clear victor the fight was stopped.
Dog fighting still goes on in many places in the US. It primarily takes places in the heavily Black and Hispanic areas of the countryside and inner cities.
It is the reason why there are so many Pit Bull puppies that end up in shelters around the country. Those pit bulls are bred to fight. Not all of them make good fighters. Just ask Mike Vick.
I remember discussing many years ago the subject of bullfighting with our family veterinarian and that how, in a country like Portugal, the object is not to kill the bull in the end. The good doctor argued in reply that, even if that is the case, the animal has suffered plenty of injury, the implication being that, in the long run, it would have to be put down. I can see that happening with a rooster that, on the surface, survived a bout.
To this day, I refer to Michael Vick as “the dog killer”. Ironic how PETA and other animal-”rights” organizations never made an effort to have the man banned from pro football when his involvement in dog fights was revealed.
I guess they have solved all the problems here in the U.S.
Not that we have terrorists walking across our borders or anything like that.
All I can think of is that that U.S. Attorney and Grand Jury in Puerto Rico are acting within their own jurisdiction and have no authority to deal with criminal issues on the mainland.
In some respects, yes.
Cockfighting was popular among the Romans and even in Colonial America. It was legal in Louisiana until quite recently. Not something I am a fan of but the loser does usually become stew.
I saw somewhere that it was actually “Cat Juggling”.
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