A celebrity disc jockey and the heads of an entertainment company
were among 14 people indicted in a cocaine ring where private jets were
used to shuttle large amounts of the drug from Southern California to
Baltimore, authorities said.
Authorities said Tuesday that the ring smuggled hundreds of pounds of
cocaine via private jets between May and November. They seized nearly
300 kilograms of cocaine and $1.1 million.
Investigators used wiretaps to track the shipments that didn’t slow
down despite the discovery of nearly 50 kilograms of cocaine aboard a
plane during a refueling stop in September.
“It’s amazing what greed will do to you,” said Assistant U.S.
Attorney Rob Villeza. “They knew something was going on, but the next
day they were doing it again. They were not prepared to stop.”
