Mexican
cartels setting up shop across U.S.
Frediberto
Pineda, a member of the Sinaloa cartel, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for
heading a cocaine operation in South Carolina's capital. Similar outposts have
popped up in Seattle, Anchorage and Minneapolis.
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
7:59 PM PDT, April 17, 2011
Reporting from Columbia, S.C.
The house on Knightner Road is small, blue and
white, with a stone front porch and a string of Christmas lights still hanging.
Here, crack cocaine was sold to drive-up customers a few miles from the state
Capitol in Columbia.
The one on Pound Road in rural Gaston, just south of Columbia, is a brown-and-white trailer, with a gravel driveway and woods out back. Here, federal law enforcement officers surprised Frediberto Pineda, who had 10 kilos of cocaine worth $350,000 in his possession.
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The one on Pound Road in rural Gaston, just south of Columbia, is a brown-and-white trailer, with a gravel driveway and woods out back. Here, federal law enforcement officers surprised Frediberto Pineda, who had 10 kilos of cocaine worth $350,000 in his possession.
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