"For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found.
"For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found," the story began.
The four-ton sculpture (the ring weighs two tons, while its legs weigh a ton each), which has a diameter of three meters, is composed of several layers of colored acrylic, sits 58-meters high on the waterfall.
Proving ring of 50 ton capacity is used to note the applied load.
The prosecutors said that a Colombian narcotics ring sold 60 tons of cocaine in the New York region, and that the Zapatas took the money to Miami to buy goods and ship them to Colombia.
A former chief of the Sicilian Mafia and 16 other defendants in the "pizza connection" trial were convicted yesterday of running an international ring that distributed tons of drugs.
Authorities on both sides of the border say the death of Ramón dealt a crippling blow to the family's Tijuana-based drug-smuggling ring, which smuggled tons of cocaine and marijuana through border areas and into California and other regions in the western United States.
An indictment charges that the man, James Yezid Valencia Rugeles, 63, with his two sons, ran a drug ring that received tons of cocaine in Curaçao, and then shipped it to St. Maarten, then Puerto Rico and the United States, said federal prosecutors and Drug Enforcement Administration officials.
Marshank, indicted in 1990 on charges of running a ring that distributed tons of marijuana and hashish, is one of Minkin's oldest clients, and he sent him many referrals.
Along Beijing's 5th ring road, a half ton of debris is piled along each kilometer on average, much of it construction waste, the Beijing Evening News reported in August.
