News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Progress cited in disrupting drug ring

Cocaine marketed to wealthy clients
By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

August 10, 2006

U.S authorities continue to chip away at a long-standing cocaine distribution network that has its origins in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

One suspected key leader, Miguel Vergel Vasquez, was arrested July 26 after federal undercover agents observed him allegedly conducting drug deals with San Diego area customers.

Vergel pleaded not guilty in court shortly after his arrest, according to prosecutors with the District Attorney's Office, who said his attorney is public defender Richard Castellanos. Attempts to reach Castellanos this week were unsuccessful.

Authorities said they have recently arrested six other suspected members of groups that allegedly sell powdered cocaine to mostly upscale residents in coastal San Diego County, roughly from La Jolla and Pacific Beach north.

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