Police Break Up Organized Crime Ring
Date: 02-02-2003
Posted by: Anabolic Info TeamUnited States |
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An organized crime ring, stretching across four counties and involved with gambling, cargo theft and drug trafficking has been revealed and broken up, police said.
Broward County sheriff's officials said the ring, which operated out of an auto body shop in Miramar, took in $400,000 monthly in illegal betting from gamblers in Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and St. Lucie counties.
A total of 21 people were charged, including 14 who now face state racketeering charges. The other seven people charged in connection with the crime ring face charges ranging from dealing in stolen property and illegal drugs.
"It does not appear that there was any actual body work going on there," said Broward sheriff's spokesman Hugh Graf.
Broward sheriff's investigators confiscated $1.7 million in cash and stolen Snap-On tools, a kilogram of cocaine and two luxury cars sometime last month, authorities announced Friday.
Officials also said the ring was involved with the sale of marijuana, cocaine, Oxycontin, Percocet and anabolic steroids.
