Colombian drug kingpin busted in massive smuggling operation
LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors say a Colombian drug kingpin accused of participating in a violent ring that used planes, speedboats and submarines to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars in cocaine faces charges in California.
Prosecutors said Victor Hugo Cuellar-Silva was due Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom on charges of taking part in a vast cocaine and methamphetamine running conspiracy.
Prosecutors say Cuellar-Silva was a high-ranking member of a drug ring headed by Mexican fugitive Angel Humberto Chavez-Gastelum.
Prosecutors say the indictment charging the two men and dozens of others is unique in targeting the drug distribution chain from source to sellers.
Chavez-Gastelum and another defendant, Alonso Jaime Gastelum-Salazar, are also charged with two counts of murder.
Cuellar-Silva is in custody and it wasn’t clear if he had a lawyer who could comment.
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