latimes.com
Mexican
cartels setting up shop across U.S.
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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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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
characterizes Mexican occupied Los Angeles as “the Mexican gang capital of
America.” 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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MARIA THE LOCAL MEXICAN
DRUG DEALER… SHE’S JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN!
“From the house, Maria
"Chata" Leon, an illegal immigrant, her family and associates
controlled drug and gang activity on the street for years, police said.”
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