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In December 1984, over 1,600 pounds of cocaine were seized in the New York area as a result of a six-month investigation by the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force. Pictured with the cocaine seized are, from left to right: Raymond Jones, Chief of the Organized Crime Control Bureau, New York City Police Department; Thomas A. Constantine, Deputy Superintendent of the New York State Police; Raymond Dearie, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; New York Field Division SAC Bruce Jensen; and John Luksic, U.S. Customs SAC at the JFK airport office. The Crime Control Act (1984) In 1984, the Crime Control Act targeted various aspects of civil and criminal sanctions related to drug trafficking. Specifically, federal criminal and civil asset forfeiture penalties were expanded and increased. The law also established a determinate sentencing system for drug offenses. In addition, it amended the Bail Reform Act to target pretrial detention of defendants accused of serious drug offenses. The National Drug Policy Board was created by the Act to coordinate international and criminal justice issues related to drugs. Chaired by the Attorney General and composed of members of the Departments of Treasury and Defense, it was the forerunner to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Explorers wait for a signal from DEA agents participating in a mock exercise at the 1984 National Law Enforcement Explorer Conference at Ohio State University. This was the third year that the DEA took part in the conference, which is sponsored by the Boy Scouts of America. 52
Tranquilandia (1984) In March of 1984, another very important discovery signaled just how sophisticated the Medellin cartel’s operations had become. Colombian law enforcement officials conducted a raid against Tranquilandia or “Quiet Village.” It was much more than a cocaine lab located 160 miles south of San Jose del Guaviare. What they found was a fully equipped cocaine factory, complete with living quarters for 100 people, several storage rooms for chemicals and supplies, and workshops for automobiles and airplanes. With this efficient production line, traffickers were synthesizing 20 tons of cocaine a month, putting $12 billion in the coffers of the Medellin cartel in only two years. Authorities seized more than 10 tons of cocaine and cocaine base at Tranquilandia and found more labs and similar compounds in the surrounding jungle. The police destroyed drugs and material conservatively estimated to be worth $1.2 billion. This startling discovery had actually begun when the DEA country attache in Bogota asked for a study on chemical imports, especially ether and acetone entering Colombia. The study determined that 98 percent of the imported ether (90 percent originating from the United States and West Germany) was being used to make cocaine. Due to the findings of the chemical report, the DEA contacted U.S. chemical companies to ask for their cooperation in alerting law enforcement about unusually large chemical orders. When an individual from Colombia walked into the chemical company office in New Jersey requesting to pay cash for nearly two metric tons of ether—an amount equivalent to half of all the legitimate ether imports for the entire country of Colombia for 1980—the chemical company notified the DEA. The processing of cocaine base to paste. 53 A cache of precursor chemicals near a South American cocaine processing lab. Seizing this opportunity, the DEA set up a sting in Chicago code-named Operation Scorpion. A front company called North Central Industrial Chemical (NCIC), purposely using the same initials as the National Crime Information Center, was established and contacted the individual with an offer to fill his order. Eventually, 76 drums of ether were sent to New Orleans. Two of the drums had been wired with electronic tracking devices. By satellite, agents were able to monitor the movements of the chemicals. After several days, the chemicals were traced to a dense jungle area in Colombia. The DEA worked with the Colombian National Police to help raid the site, never anticipating the magnitude of the operation. The DEA had long understood the vital link of chemicals and drugs. Without chemicals, traffickers could not manufacture their drugs. One of the DEA’s early attacks on the chemical trade had occurred in 1982 with Operation Chem Con, short for Chemical Control. The DEA gradually expanded its efforts to control chemicals essential to the processing of coca to cocaine with governments worldwide, and it was this chemical tracking that led to major laboratory seizures in South America, including Tranquilandia.
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