Friday, July 20, 2012

Globe Walks the Wire

Going to fall off because of the jitters:

"Inmate accused of leading Boston drug ring; Authorities call operation large" by Matt Woolbright  |  Globe Correspondent, July 10, 2012

From behind bars, Juan Guzman ran a multimillion-dollar drug ring with the help of his sister, a state employee, providing cocaine from Mexico to the streets of Boston, according to authorities. On Monday, their enterprise was brought to an end by the largest drug ­investigation in the city in at least a decade.

Fourteen people were arrested just after dawn by about 100 Boston police officers and FBI agents in 12 locations across Boston, Milton, and Canton, dismantling an illegal operation that authorities likened to the television show “The Wire.”

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 "Suspects’ affluent ways helped spur drug inquiry" by Maria Cramer  |  Globe Staff, July 11, 2012

They had gone from renting apartments to buying houses. They were buying expensive champagne at clubs around Boston and Rhode Island. Some were driving Mercedes Benz cars and taking more frequent trips to their native country, the Dominican Republic.

Members of the Boylston Street gang were unemployed, police said, but were heedlessly spending money, and raising suspicions....

The drug unit, along with the FBI, arrested 14 people Monday morning, most of them purported members of the Boylston Street gang, a Jamaica Plain group that investigators estimate brought hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the state. Police moved in on the gang after they learned a large shipment of cocaine was scheduled to come into the city....

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Related: Agent testifies that Boston drug ring suspect bought cocaine from Merrimack Valley ring