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01-26-2007, 12:22 PM #1
Agents: 135,000 pills sold by 'Godfather', others
http://www.cdispatch.com/articles/2007/ ... ocal03.txt -Agents: 135,000 pills sold by ‘Godfather,' others
By Joey Vaughan
jvaughan@cdispatch.com
Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:11 AM CST
A group of immigrants living in Columbus used a ring of convenience stores to illegally distribute methamphetamine precursor drugs, contraband cigarettes and commit food stamp fraud, according to indictments for 11 people arrested Saturday by federal agents.
As many as 135,000 pills and more than 60,000 contraband cigarettes were sold through the Key Station on Waterworks Road, CK Discount Store on Fourth Street South and Stop and Save Grocery on Military Road between December 2005 and August 2006, federal prosecutors allege.
Included among the 11 people arrested in connection with the case is Hamzah Ali Ahmed, better know to many Columbians as “The Godfather.”
Also charged are his wife, Fandah Kissim Ahmed, and Muna Hamzah Ahmed; Omar Musaed Ali; Adeeb Naji Amer, also known as “Ed”; Fnu Lnu, a.k.a. “Nick”; Fouad Fadec Mohamed, Khaled Hezam Nagi, a.k.a. “Adam”; Ahmed Mohamed Qasem, a.k.a. “David”; Saleh Ali Rashed, a.k.a. “Mohamed”; and Abdo Hamed Yahia, a.k.a. “Mike.”
All the defendants are being held without bond until their court appearances.
The 39-count indictment alleges the group sold large quantities of pseudoephedrine “having reasonable cause to believe that the listed chemical would be used to manufacture methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance.”
The first 35 counts of the indictment involve drug conspiracy, while count 36 deals with contraband cigarettes and the final three counts allege food stamp fraud. The defendants are accused of buying stolen cigarettes without proper Mississippi tax stamps. In the food stamp cases, Omar Musaed Ali and Ahmed Mohamed Qasem, a.k.a. “David,” are charged with redeeming food stamp benefits through Electronic Benefit Transfer cards in exchange for discounted amounts of cash.
Muna Hamzah Ahmed, Fandah Kissim Ahmed, Abdo Hamed Yahia and Ahmed Mohamed Qasem all pleaded not guilty to charges in U.S. District Court in Aberdeen Wednesday.
According to Delores Lewis, co-director of public affairs for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, the arrests were part of a yearlong joint investigation that resulted in 33 arrests in 10 northern Mississippi counties.
Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agents initiated the investigation, code-named Operation 607, in late 2005, after Gov. Haley Barbour signed House Bill 607.
The state law makes it a crime to dispense ephedrine and pseudoephedrine under circumstances knowing, or where one reasonably should know, that the precursor will be used to unlawfully manufacture a controlled substance.
Ephedrine is commonly used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
Eight other Columbus suspects were held Saturday by the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center following the arrests on charges filed by the MBN, but Joey Brackin, commander of the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office, said the suspects have since been transferred to federal custody.
Those people are Omar Kahtan Mohammed, 29, of 110 Highway 45 South in West Point; Yasser Hezam Nagi, 25, of 417 Forrest Blvd. in Columbus; Anwar M. Sedek, 20, of 702 Military Road in Columbus;
Abdulhakim Borou, 29, of 3946 Highway 182 E., Apt. 11-C in Columbus; Abdel M. Saleh, 40, of 12502 Highway 45 N. in Columbus; Ragaee A. Rashed, 25, of 1202 Fourth St. S. in Columbus;
Joyce B. Johnson, 46, of 222 Burgundy Drive in Columbus; and Arthur Harrison, 44, of 2022 17th Ave. N. in Columbus.
Mohammed was being held for another jurisdiction. The others were all charged with possession or sale of ephedrine tablets.Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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01-26-2007, 12:31 PM #2
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Selling contraband... Is that yet another job that lazy Americans won't do?
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01-26-2007, 12:45 PM #3
Drugs and immigrants
Another fine example of what immigrants believe they can do in America! We have been trying for years to clean up our drug problem and now immigrants are selling drugs like it was candy and our government keeps telling us how much they are doing for the country.
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