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By Michael Virtanen
Albany, New York (AP)
The chief federal informant in the drug-smuggling case against more than a dozen men from the U.S. and Canada testified Tuesday that the main shipment point, where millions of dollars went north and tons of marijuana came south, was the Mohawk Indian reservation that straddles the border.
Damien Abitbol, 33, said in court that he made about 45 to 60 runs in six months as a courier for the international crime ring in 2007 before he was stopped by the Border Patrol. His car and about $500,000 of drug money in the trunk were confiscated. Smugglers also used a remote road along the border for pickups.
Albany, New York (AP)
The chief federal informant in the drug-smuggling case against more than a dozen men from the U.S. and Canada testified Tuesday that the main shipment point, where millions of dollars went north and tons of marijuana came south, was the Mohawk Indian reservation that straddles the border.
Damien Abitbol, 33, said in court that he made about 45 to 60 runs in six months as a courier for the international crime ring in 2007 before he was stopped by the Border Patrol. His car and about $500,000 of drug money in the trunk were confiscated. Smugglers also used a remote road along the border for pickups.
