Anonymous ID: 84d6f2 Jan. 30, 2021, 6:25 a.m. No.12766606   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6829 >>6909 >>6952

The rise and fall of a father-son drug ring linked to multiple deaths and the Sinaloa Cartel

 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. โ€” As Louisville Metro Police Detective Darrell Hyche stepped toward a white pickup truck to make a traffic stop, a gunman fired bullets into his face and head.

 

His partner fired back, killing the gunman and another passenger.

 

Rattled residents and many officers didnโ€™t know at the time of the Feb. 1, 2018, shootout in Buechel, Kentucky, that the men inside the pickup were connected to a much larger drug trafficking organization โ€” one that lured violent gangs from Detroit and ordered millions of dollars of methamphetamine from Mexicoโ€™s infamous Sinaloa Cartel.

 

Investigators suspect that during 2016-2018 drug ring members also were involved in at least four deaths in Michigan, Kentucky and Mississippi.

 

The Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network, spent weeks interviewing agents, prosecutors, defense attorneys and local police and sifting through court, police and jail records in four states to piece together details of the criminal enterprise and the destructive swath it cut across the U.S. โ€” culminating in arson, a toxic romance, betrayal and deadly revenge.

 

The newsroom's investigation revealed the drug ring's links to the shooting of Detective Hyche, the killing of a 28-year-old mother and a 27-year-old man in Louisville, the murder of a man in Detroit and the mysterious death of a woman in a casino in Tunica, Mississippi.

 

The picture that developed depicts how Cuban refugee Jose Manuel Prieto Jr., 56, built a drug ring in California that stretched from the West Coast northeast to Buffalo, New York, and south to Atlanta before leading his son, a U.S. Air Force veteran, on a path to prison.

 

Tracking the meth pipeline into Louisville

For law enforcement, the case began a few years ago with one key question: Who was behind an influx of meth into Louisville?

 

Police officials blamed the violent drug trade for a jarring spike in homicides and an overdose rate that averaged nearly a death a day.

 

Louisville narcotics detectives teamed with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and soon zeroed in on drug trafficker Wiley Greenhill, who moved from Detroit to the Derby City to form a drug ring.

 

Greenhill, 40, teamed with his brother, Jamarr Greenhill, 38, to summon gang members from Detroit to capitalize on Louisville's addiction crisis, which handed them a solid customer base.

 

Greenhill associates later told investigators they relocated because they heard Louisville was "chill," meaning the drug trade was less competitive so they could establish a foothold, said Shawn Morrow, special agent in charge of the ATF's Louisville Field Division.

 

Investigators began to see proof of the Detroit link. When ATF agents made an undercover buy from a Greenhill associate in Louisville, they traced a stolen .38-caliber Smith & Wesson Special the Detroit Police Department once issued to one of its officers.

 

As the case grew more complex and widespread, ATF agents called in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Louisville.

 

DEA agents led the three-year investigation and dubbed it "Operation Triple Crown," the pinnacle of thoroughbred racing, as they worked to track the pipeline's origins from Louisville and Detroit back to the father-and-son suppliers in California.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/rise-fall-father-son-drug-100034422.html

Anonymous ID: 84d6f2 Jan. 30, 2021, 6:57 a.m. No.12766880   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Can we chalk this one up to another Trump "Told you so.."

 

"For months, U.S. President Donald Trump has tried to ban TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance, on the grounds that the app's Chinese ownership poses a national security threat.

 

U.S. officials claim that TikTok allows the Chinese government to access user data, censors political topics, and could be used to spread misinformation.

 

"As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States," Trump said in August. The same month, he said TikTok "can't be controlled, for security reasons, by China. Too big. Too invasive."

 

But TikTok, which is still operating in the U.S., turned the tables this weekend when it confirmed it was removing some videos of Trump speaking because they violate the company's misinformation policy."

 

https://fortune.com/2021/01/11/tiktok-bans-trump-before-trump-bans-tiktok/