http://www.ilalocal1526.net/

According to Facebook Noah Holliman works at

International Longshoremen's Association Local 1526

They have pics on the website of Frederica Wilson and DWS have visited their company

Hmmm any trafficking going on I wonder

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1998-03-07-9803070020-story.html

14 PORT WORKERS CHARGED IN SCHEME

LARRY LEBOWITZ Staff WriterSUN-SENTINEL

March 1998

Fourteen private security guards and unionized dockworkers were indicted on Friday and charged with running a massive "rip 'n' run" conspiracy that smuggled more than 3,000 pounds of cocaine and 10,000 pounds of marijuana into Port Everglades.

Federal officials said the arrests, following a 19-month investigation, signal the emergence of Port Everglades as the smugglers' port of choice because of toughened security at the Port of Miami.

Customs and Drug Enforcement Agency officials identified the ringleaders as:

• Cecil "Big Dirty" McCleod, 36, of Davie, a cargo crane operator with the Teamsters Local 390 at Crowley American Transport at Port Everglades.

• Daphne "Ma" Creary, 59, of Plantation, a former guard with Burns Security Co., which is responsible for access at Crowley.

• Mark Knight, 31, of Plantation, a union stevedore with the International Longshoremen's Association unit at Sealand Services at Port Everglades.

While the indictment covered marijuana, cocaine and heroin shipments during the past 19 months, McCleod and Creary's organization had been operating at least five years, DEA Special Agent in Charge William Mitchell said.

Raphael Lopez, special agent in charge of the U.S. Customs Service in South Florida, said the ease with which the group operated points to serious security problems at Port Everglades.

Crane operators or stevedores would commonly move the containers to remote areas of the yards, near fences and away from security cameras and guards. They would "rip" the drugs from the containers and "run" from the port in their personal pickup trucks and vans.

Occasionally, they would allow friends and drug-dealing associates to drive entire containers away from the port using tractor-trailers. In one case, Mitchell said, the group intercepted somebody else's drug shipment and ripped it off.

Typically, the dockworkers and drivers would take a 20 percent cut of the contraband as their commission for delivering the drugs to a distributor, the indictment said.

The security guards, many of whom were earning $6 to $7 per hour, were paid as much as $10,000 to $30,000 per load to look the other way, Mitchell said.

Thirteen of the 14 indicted were arrested in simultaneous early-morning raids by Customs and DEA agents at the port and several homes in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

Several made first appearances in magistrate court still wearing their guard uniforms. All will be held without bail pending hearings next week before a magistrate in West Palm Beach.

Besides McCleod, two other defendants are members of the Teamsters Local 390, which provides stevedores to Crowley. Knight and one other defendant, Malcolm Edwards of Miramar, are members of ILA Local 1526, which provides stevedores to Sealand at Port Everglades.

In addition to Creary, five other defendants were employed as guards at either Burns Security Co. or Motivated Security Co.: John Lambert of Fort Lauderdale, Andrew Rodney of Sunrise, Patrick Robinson of Pompano Beach, Diedonnaks Charles and Chester Collins, both of Lauderdale Lakes.

Agents worked with a confidential informant who provided tips about drug smuggling at the port dating back to August 1996, authorities said.

But the investigation picked up steam in early October, when Customs and DEA agents nailed two dockworkers and a security guard smuggling 53 kilograms of cocaine into the port at Sealand Services.

Authorities named the investigation Operation Energizer, after the bunny in the television commercials that keeps on going _ just like drug smuggling at South Florida ports, they said.

The investigation continues.

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Final defendant sentenced in Port Miami cocaine-smuggling ring

Defendants were former members of International Longshoremen's Association

By Amanda Batchelor - Senior Digital Editor

Posted: 3:13 PM, May 16, 2016

Updated: 3:13 PM, May 16, 2016

MIAMI - The final defendant in the Aug. 13, 2015, bust of a Port Miami cocaine-smuggling ring was sentenced Monday to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison.

Clinton Coleman Jr., 47, of Miami, was among seven men who were arrested last August in the Homeland Security Investigations-led Operation Pier Pressure.

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Authorities said the multi-agency operation began more than two years ago to identify corrupt members of the International Longshoremen’s Association who worked at Port Miami.

Authorities said the men diverted narcotics from cargo and cruise ships arriving at the port.

Below is a list of the other men sentenced in the case:

Tyrone Jackson, 54, of Miami, was convicted and sentenced Nov. 19 to 9 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiring attempting to import and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

Ronald Chestnut, 44, of Hallandale, and Jimmie Alexander Jr., 67, of Opa-locka, pleaded guilty and were each sentenced Jan. 22 to 7 years and 3 months in federal prison for conspiracy to import cocaine and importation of cocaine, respectively.

Jimmy Beasley, 47, of Miami Gardens, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Dec. 8 to 4 years and 9 months months in federal prison for conspiracy to import cocaine.

Yves Belmont, 42, of Miami, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Feb. 1 to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for attempting to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

Joel McNeal, 45, of Hollywood, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Dec. 8 to time served with four years of supervised release and 12 months of home confinement for attempting to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

Copyright 2016 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

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Interesting

Obama’s CIA Read Congressional Emails About Intel Community Whistleblowers

https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/01/chuck-grassley-obama-cia-whistleblowers/

The CIA during the Obama administration read congressional emails discussing whistleblower complaints about activities within the intelligence community, according to newly declassified documents provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

The documents show that on March 28, 2014, I. Charles McCullough III, who then served as the Intelligence Community’s watchdog, wrote to Congress that CIA’s security division had read emails exchanged between congressional staffers and the top official in the Intelligence Community Inspector General office that protects whistleblowers.

CIA security said that the emails were picked up during a “routine counterintelligence (CI) monitoring of Government security systems,” according to McCullough, who provided the details in documents known as Congressional Notifications, or CNs.

“Most of these emails concerned pending and developing whistleblower complaints,” wrote McCullough.

McCullough also said that CIA security provided reports of the monitoring to offices where some of the whistleblowers worked.

McCullough said that though the routine monitoring was legal, he was concerned “about the potential compromise to whistleblower confidentiality and the consequent ‘chilling effect’ that the present CI monitoring system might have on Intelligence Community whistleblowing.”

The release of the documents brings to an end a four-year fight between Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and the intelligence community. (RELATED: Grassley Defends Whistleblower Law)

Grassley wrote to former CIA Director John Brennan and former National Intelligence Director James Clapper on April 14, 2014 seeking the declassification of the two CNs. Neither Obama-appointed official accommodated the request.

Grassley accused Brennan and Clapper of “bureaucratic foot-dragging” for refusing to declassify the documents, in a statement Thursday.

“The fact that the CIA under the Obama administration was reading Congressional staff’s emails about intelligence community whistleblowers raises serious policy concerns as well as potential Constitutional separation-of-powers issues that must be discussed publicly,” said Grassley, who is well-known in Washington as an advocate for government whistleblowers.