Jay Weaver
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 00:00
An appeals court ruled that a 1986 law used to convict four suspected drug smugglers arrested in Panama waters is illegal.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 00:00
A Miami federal jury Monday convicted a former senior official in Haiti's state-owned telecommunications company, who had left a long paper trail of bank deposits and other financial records in South Florida that sealed his fate on bribery-related charges
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 00:00
Haiti's most notorious narcotics trafficker could see his 27-year prison sentence chopped by as much as half, thanks to his assistance as a cooperating witness in the feds' crackdown on that country's drug trade.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 00:00
Daniel Barrera-Barrera, indicted in Miami on cocaine-smuggling conspiracy charges, operates mainly in the eastern part of Colombia between Bogota and the Venezuelan border
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 00:00
It was floating about 50 feet below the surface and 16 nautical miles off shore near the Nicaraguan border, marking the feds’ first underwater removal of drugs from such a sub.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 00:00
Pedro Ramon Sanchez was a police lieutenant and elected city councilman in the Dominican Republic. Julio Cesar Valerio became a naval officer.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 00:00
With Montoya Sanchez at the helm, the massive organization operated cocaine laboratories in the rural region of North Valley inside the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 00:00
One of the Cuban Five defendants, initially sentenced to life in prison for espionage conspiracy, saw his term reduced to 22 years. The judge rejected an even lighter sentence recommended by prosecutors.
Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 00:00
Jean Eliobert Jasme's prison term was reduced to about 10 years by U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke, because federal prosecutors and defense lawyers jointly recommended it based on his ''substantial assistance'' in dozens of Miami trafficking cases
Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 00:00
A former Bolivian cabinet member dubbed the ''minister of cocaine'' was deported to his native country late Wednesday after serving almost 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into South Florida.