04-08-2010, 09:36 PM
American Owner of DC9 Carrying 5.5 Tons of Cocaine Had Been Investigated for Drug Trafficking a Decade Ago
August 4th, 2010 Via: Mad Cow Productions:
The American owner of record of the DC9 airliner which took off from St Petersburg in April of 2006 and was busted in Mexico carrying an astonishing 5.5 tons of cocaine Mexico had been the subject of a drug trafficking investigation ten years earlier.
According to a DEA report on the DC9 sent to Luis Correa, the Director of Venezuela’s National Anti-Drug Office, Frederic Geffon was investigated by US Customs in Tampa, Florida in 1995, after being identified as an aircraft-broker-dealer working with drug traffickers.
“Frederic J. GEFFON DOB: 08.02.1948, home address 10316 Paradise Blvd, Treasure Island, Florida, was the subject of an investigation by US Customs in Tampa, Florida in 1995,” stated a DEA report on the highly-publicized DC9 incident in the Yucatan to Luis Correa, the Director of Venezuela’s National Anti-Drug Office. “GEFFON was identified in 1995 as an aircraft-broker-dealer working with drug traffickers.”
Yet despite being no stranger to Federal law enforcement officials, Frederic Geffon, the owner of record of the DC9, was never charged with any crime.
Similar government action—or inaction—was occuring in Mexico with respect to a second figure in the ill-fated DC9 drug move.
The pilot of the DC9, Carmelo Vasquez Guerra, was—inexplicably and with no explanation—released by Mexican authorities sometime after being taken into custody.
The two nation’s drug policy, when it comes to this particular drug trafficking organization, is apparently “Catch and Release.”
[see embedded video at link]
August 4th, 2010 Via: Mad Cow Productions:
The American owner of record of the DC9 airliner which took off from St Petersburg in April of 2006 and was busted in Mexico carrying an astonishing 5.5 tons of cocaine Mexico had been the subject of a drug trafficking investigation ten years earlier.
According to a DEA report on the DC9 sent to Luis Correa, the Director of Venezuela’s National Anti-Drug Office, Frederic Geffon was investigated by US Customs in Tampa, Florida in 1995, after being identified as an aircraft-broker-dealer working with drug traffickers.
“Frederic J. GEFFON DOB: 08.02.1948, home address 10316 Paradise Blvd, Treasure Island, Florida, was the subject of an investigation by US Customs in Tampa, Florida in 1995,” stated a DEA report on the highly-publicized DC9 incident in the Yucatan to Luis Correa, the Director of Venezuela’s National Anti-Drug Office. “GEFFON was identified in 1995 as an aircraft-broker-dealer working with drug traffickers.”
Yet despite being no stranger to Federal law enforcement officials, Frederic Geffon, the owner of record of the DC9, was never charged with any crime.
Similar government action—or inaction—was occuring in Mexico with respect to a second figure in the ill-fated DC9 drug move.
The pilot of the DC9, Carmelo Vasquez Guerra, was—inexplicably and with no explanation—released by Mexican authorities sometime after being taken into custody.
The two nation’s drug policy, when it comes to this particular drug trafficking organization, is apparently “Catch and Release.”
[see embedded video at link]
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