Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Operation Devil's Handshake

"15 arrested in Worcester-area cocaine crackdown; suspects allegedly hid drugs in can of beans" by Melissa M. Werthmann  |  Globe Correspondent, September 14, 2012

Fifteen people were arrested after Operation Devil’s Handshake uncovered a Worcester cocaine ring that involved, among other things, sending drugs to the United States from Puerto Rico in a can of beans, federal prosecutors said Friday.

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Devil’s Handshake was a two-year joint investigation by federal and state authorities, the US attorney’s office said in a statement.

Federal drug trafficking conspiracy complaints were unsealed Thursday against seven suspects, prosecutors said....

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"Cohasset police said a man arrested in Roslindale last week on drug charges — who also faces similar charges in a previous case possibly compromised by the scandal at the state crime lab — led a cocaine trafficking ring that delivered drugs to clients on the South Shore six days a week."

Not seven? 

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Cohasset police say drug ring busted
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He spent Christmas in jail, child pornography was found on his computer, and he was also accused of stealing from the church’s weekly collection, fled to his native Philippines.