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Retiring CNP Director Serrano Honored (2000) DEA presented retired Colombian National Police (CNP) Director General Rosso Serrano with the first-ever honorary Special Agent badge at a ceremony at DEA headquarters on July 19, 2000. It is the DEA’s highest award, and is presented only in exceptional cases to individuals outside DEA who have had a monumental impact on drug law enforcement nationally or internationally. “I can think of no one who so embodies the spirit of this award but General Serrano. He has put service to his country, his people, and the world before his personal safety, ” stated Administrator Donnie Marshall .at the ceremony. Drug Submarine Seized in Colombia (2000) On September 7, 2000, the CNP seized a partially constructed, steel double-hulled submarine from a warehouse outside Bogota, Colombia. Once assembled, it would have been nearly 100 feet long. All information suggested the submarine could have been used to transport up to 10 metric tons of illicit drugs from Colombia to remote off-load sites in Latin America and the Caribbean. The seizure of this high-tech submarine demonstrated the vast resources and ingenuity of Colombian drug traffickers and the lengths they were willing to go to transport their product. 42 General Serrano joined the CNP in 1963 as a second lieutenant and advanced steadily through the ranks until becoming Director in 1995. The accomplishments of CNP under General Serrano debilitated major international drug traffickers and affected the drug trade worldwide. Under his command, the CNP declared war on drug cartels and joined forces with the DEA in dismantling the infamous Cali organization. Other CNP accomplishments under Serrano include the arrests of Jose Santacruz-Londono, Pacho Herrara, Henry Loaiza-Ceballos, and Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia. Cooperation between DEA and CNP continued as new independent drug organizations were created. One of the most significant was Operation Millennium, in October 1999, that dismantled the “Juvenal” transportation organization, which had been supplying between 20 and 30 tons of cocaine per month to the United States and Europe.
Operations Odessa/ Atlantico/Journey (2000) Maritime illicit drug smuggling organizations were the target of Operations Odessa, Atlantico and Journey. Operation Odessa/Atlantico involved multiple cocaine and money seizures from organized maritime Greek drug smugglers who worked closely with Colombian traffickers. These operations took place from 1998-2000. Operation Odessa was an investigation of many initiatives launched by the Hellenic Republic. Thanks to cooperation from the Greek Government, assets worth $7 million were seized, as was the M/V Bulk Princess. Operation Journey also targeted maritime smuggling operations in Colombia that moved their operations to Venezuela as a result of Operation Odessa. Thanks to the sharing of information between various law enforcement authorities, Operation Journey seized more than nine tons of cocaine hidden by the De La Vega drug trafficking organization. DEA Support to United States Government Drug Production Estimates Any reality-based illicit drug production estimate must start with the most accurate information available on crop yields and clandestine laboratory operations. Accordingly, since 1993, DEA intelligence analysts and forensic chemists have collected and analyzed unique science-based data on coca 43 and opium poppy cultivation as well as cocaine and heroin production in the Andean Region of South America. This research revolutionized U.S. Government cocaine and heroin production estimates. In 1999, for example, the U.S. Government more than doubled the previous estimates of Colombia’s potential cocaine base production due to DEA’s coca yield and cocaine laboratory studies. Likewise, in 2002, again as a result of new data from DEA, the U.S. Government slashed by more than fifty percent the previous estimates of Colombia’s potential heroin production. As of 2003, this program had conducted crop yield and clandestine laboratory efficiency studies only in the Andean Region. Operation New Generation (2000) A significant international drug trafficking and money laundering organization was dismantled in November 2000. Since November 1998, DEA had been investigating the drug trafficking and money laundering activities of the Colombia-based Carlos Mario Castro-Arias cocaine transportation organization. Castro-Arias was a significant drug trafficker responsible for smuggling large quantities of cocaine concealed in Although Castro-Arias evaded authorities, the investigation yielded 102 arrests, 2,110 kilograms of cocaine, 1,400 grams of heroin, six tons of miscellaneous chemicals, and $2.3 million in U.S. currency. DEA Special Agent Richard Fass’s Killer Apprehended (2000) On June 30, 1994, DEA Special Agent Richard Fass and his partner Special Agent Michael Pelonero were working an undercover investigation targeting a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization in the Phoenix area. The organization was headed by Agustin Vasquez- Mendoza, a Mexican national, with whom Special Agent Fass had been arranging the sale of ten kilograms of methamphetamine. At the time of the sale, however, Vasquez- Mendoza’s colleagues, Rafael Rubio-Mendez and Juan Vasquez -Rubio, shot and killed Special Agent Fass in an apparent robbery attempt. Both men were arrested near the scene while attempting to flee and later received life sentences for the murder. Vasquez -Mendoza— the leader and mastermind of Fass’ killing—fled to Mexico, and the manhunt for him became one of the most intense in recent U.S.-Mexico history, lasting more than six years. A Fass Task Force was formed in the Phoenix Division, dedicated to locating Vasquez-Mendoza. The task force worked closely with U.S. and Mexico law enforcement entities, including the Mexican Military. For several years, the pursuit of the fugitive concentrated in a remote mountainous region in Michoacan where residents lived in wooden shacks with
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