10 Arrested in Heroin Trafficking Ring
By Associated Press | January 17, 2007
The federal government continued its attack on a large Colombia-based heroin trafficking organization yesterday by announcing that 10 more people were charged in Manhattan and 20 others face charges in Colombia.
The charges bring to 110 the number of people charged internationally in an investigation nicknamed Operation Death Merchant. The operation has resulted in arrests in Manhattan, Baltimore, Detroit, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Curacao.
Of the 10 people charged in new cases brought in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, six were arrested in Colombia yesterday and two were arrested in New York. Two remained at large.
