U.S. v. MEJIA

No. 91-6108.

82 F.3d 1032 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Guillermo Javier MEJIA, a/k/a Miguel; Jorge Ortega, Ramon Lopez, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 14, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yolanda Morales, Coral Gables, FL, for Jorge Ortega.

Arthur Joel Berger, Miami, FL, for Guillermo Javier Mejia and Ramon Lopez.

Kendall Coffey, U.S. Attorney, Madeleine Shirley, Adalberto Jordan, Linda Collins Hertz, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, FL, for appellee.

Before EDMONDSON and DUBINA, Circuit Judges, and ENGEL, Senior Circuit Judge.


EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:

Guillermo Mejia, Jorge Ortega and Ramon Lopez appeal drug convictions. We affirm.

Jose Benitez, a confidential informant working under the supervision of Special Agent Paul Grimal, was placed on a boat going from Miami to Columbia, South America. Benitez was to gather intelligence on the Columbian drug trade and (if contacted by cocaine traffickers) to arrange to bring cocaine into the United States so that the distributors could...

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