U.S. v. PERULENA

No. 92-4491.

146 F.3d 1332 (1998)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jesus PERULENA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Lipinski, Miami, FL, for Perulena.

Simon T. Steckel, Miami, FL, for D.D. Gonzalez.

William A. Keefer, U.S. Atty., Marc Fagelson and Anne Ruth Schultz, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and COX, Circuit Judges, and HANCOCK, Senior District Judge.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

From May of 1988 through July of 1991, Jose Romeu operated a successful drug smuggling ring in south Florida. Colombian suppliers of marijuana and cocaine would fly bales of the drugs to an area near the Bahamas and drop them into the sea; boats operated by Romeu's associates would then retrieve the drugs and transport them to the Florida Keys, where they would be off-loaded and distributed to drug dealers. Romeu's drug smuggling enterprise...

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