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 Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject: Brasil: Police seize marijuana linked to organized group |
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Police seize marijuana linked to organized group
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) – Police seized nearly 5.5 tons of marijuana that was being sent to one of Brazil’s most notorious organized crime groups, authorities said Friday.
Two people were arrested and charged with drug trafficking during the confiscation, which happened Wednesday on a highway near the city of Guaipora, 440 miles west of Sao Paulo in Parana state.
The drugs, hidden in a truck carrying corn meal, were being transported to lucrative drug-dealing spots owned by the organized crime group First Capital Command in Sao Paulo, federal police officer Samir Palinkas said.
Better known by its Portuguese initials, PCC, the First Capital Com-mand is notorious for masterminding bank holdups, kidnappings and violent prison uprisings. Founded in 1993 by inmates at a prison in the interior of Sao Paulo state, it remained an obscure group until organizing the biggest prison uprising in Brazil’s history in 2001.
Police said they discovered that the drugs were being transported to the PCC on Wednesday after a two-month-long investigation.
Authorities said the marijuana was smuggled into Brazil from Paraguay.
On Friday, the federal police said they seized another 2.2 tons of marijuana in separate apprehensions in Parana state. Seven people were arrested, including two Paraguayans who were not immediately identified.
The Daily Journal
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