How the DEA let one of Haiti's biggest drug busts slip through its fingers

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A cargo ship from Panama pulls into a privately owned Haitian port in broad daylight with a secret buried under a mountain of imported sugar: 700 to 800 kilos of cocaine and 300 kilos of heroin with an estimated U.S. street value of $100 million.

By the time a squad of Haiti narcotics police officers arrived at the dock two hours later, most of the drugs were gone...

The only person behind bars is a low-level longshoreman, awaiting trial on drug smuggling charges.

How did the DEA and BLTS let one of Haiti's biggest drug busts slip through their fingers?

Read the full story from the Miami Herald
miamiherald.com/news/nation-world...

Drug Enforcement Haiti, August 20 2018, 8:53 AM

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