Dozens arrested in international heroin ring investigation




Associated Press - May 23, 2007 5:24 PM ET

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Three dozen people have been arrested in San Diego on federal drug-trafficking charges in connection with a smuggling ring that allegedly moved more than 350 kilograms of high-grade Colombian heroin.

The drugs were allegedly moved through Mexico using a busy California border crossing to New York and New Jersey.

Federal law enforcement officials say couriers ferried heroin through the border crossing at Calexico and then transported it west to San Diego or to Phoenix, Las Vegas and Palm Springs for shipment to the East Coast. The contraband was sewn into jacket linings, rolled into jeans and concealed in baby blankets and table linens.

Authorities seized about 350 kilos of heroin valued at $$35 million, along with 220 kilograms of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.

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