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By CHRIS HAWLEYAssociated PressNEW YORK - U.S. prosecutors in a series of court cases say they are beginning to unravel the latest innovation in drug smuggling: South American gangs that are buying old jets and other planes, filling them with cocaine and flying them more than 3,000 miles across the ocean to Africa.At least three gangs have struck deals to fly drugs to West Africa and from there to Europe, according to U.S. indictments. The sky s the limit, one Sierra Leone trafficker boasted to a Drug Enforcement Administration informant, according to court documents.Most of the cocaine flown to Africa is bound for Europe, where demand has been rising over the last decade. stanley france South American gangs are turning to airplanes because European navies have been intercepting more boat shipments along the Afric stanley water jug an coast, trafficking experts say. We started stopping the maritime traffic, basic stanley cup ally, so then they started going to air traffic more and more, said Theodore Leggett, a smuggling expert with the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna.The U.N. agency began warning about trans-Atlantic drug planes after Nov. 2, 2009, when a burned-out Boeing 727 was found in the desert in Mali. Drug smugglers had flown the jet from Venezuela, unloaded it and then torched it, investigators said.In the last year, arrests in Africa have begun shedding light on how the air routes work. The cases are being prosecuted in a New York federal court because some of the cocaine was supposed to have been se
A Confederate flag flies at the base of Stone Mountain on Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in Stone Mountain, Ga. ATLANTA -- At Georgia s iconic Stone Mountain -- where the Confederacy is enshrined in a giant bas-relief sculpture, the Ku Klux Klan once held notorious cross-burnings and large Confederate flags still wave prominently -- officials are considering what to do about those flags.The park, which now offers family-friendly fireworks and laser light shows, is readying its Fantastic Fourth Celebration Thursday af1 through Sunday, and multiple Confederat nike sb dunk e flag varieties are still displayed at the mountain s base.The display includes the battle flag of the Confederacy, said Bill Stephens, chief executive officer of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. That banner has come under renewed criticism nationwide after the June 17 church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina. The man accused in the case posed for photos with the Confederate symbol. I m from Stone Mountain, and I ve never liked that it was a place so synonymous with the Klan, said Shannon Byrne, a 1993 graduate of Stone Mountain High School who regularly hikes up the mountain. I feel ashamed that the park would fly the flag, Byrne added. The park, of all places, with its history with the Klan, should be even more sensitive. Stephens said the park s leaders are crocs badelatschen listening to arguments pro and con in considering their next steps. There are a lot of strong feelings on bot Xufv Tennessee Sen. Blackburn tests negative for COVID-19 after traveling with President Trump to debate
By CHRIS HAWLEYAssociated PressNEW YORK - U.S. prosecutors in a series of court cases say they are beginning to unravel the latest innovation in drug smuggling: South American gangs that are buying old jets and other planes, filling them with cocaine and flying them more than 3,000 miles across the ocean to Africa.At least three gangs have struck deals to fly drugs to West Africa and from there to Europe, according to U.S. indictments. The sky s the limit, one Sierra Leone trafficker boasted to a Drug Enforcement Administration informant, according to court documents.Most of the cocaine flown to Africa is bound for Europe, where demand has been rising over the last decade. stanley france South American gangs are turning to airplanes because European navies have been intercepting more boat shipments along the Afric stanley water jug an coast, trafficking experts say. We started stopping the maritime traffic, basic stanley cup ally, so then they started going to air traffic more and more, said Theodore Leggett, a smuggling expert with the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna.The U.N. agency began warning about trans-Atlantic drug planes after Nov. 2, 2009, when a burned-out Boeing 727 was found in the desert in Mali. Drug smugglers had flown the jet from Venezuela, unloaded it and then torched it, investigators said.In the last year, arrests in Africa have begun shedding light on how the air routes work. The cases are being prosecuted in a New York federal court because some of the cocaine was supposed to have been se
