Friday, March 14, 2008

Eleven adolescents taken into custody in Zulia state on suspicion of being involved in drug trafficking

EFE News Service: Eleven adolescents were taken into custody in Zulia state on suspicion of being involved in drug trafficking. Reports reaching Caracas on Thursday said they had been found with 43 suspected "paramilitaries" when security forces raided a ranch owned by the alleged narcotics kingpin, Hermágoras González Polanco.
  • As minors, the identities of the adolescents cannot be disclosed in the public domain, but they are said to include two females. No details about their actual ages were released.
González Polanco was arrested last Saturday at his ranch, and it was then that the adolescents are said to have been discovered.

Interior and Justice Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín said González Polanco would be investigated to establish whether he has broken the law in Venezuela.

A judge ordered that he be brought to trial on charges of money laundering and illegal drugs. If no case is found against him, the government says it would consider extraditing him to the United States, where a court has already pronounced him guilty in his absence.

1 comment:

  1. In taking on the gangsters and the mafia, the thing is to divide the 'kingpins' from the kids. Divide & conquer. You don't crush the kids, or even the low-level adults, the way the idiot, stoopid yanquis and their police stooges do, with their for-profit prison-industrial complex. I don't know what the exact best way to re-habilitate gangster youth is, in the early stages of a new socialist society; but rehabilitation -- socialist rehabilitation -- is the key, and the path to take with the lower-level gang members. These are broken products of the capitalist system who must be saved -- and can be saved. Break them off from the professional mafia types.

    And deal with those latter how they should be dealt with. You're not reforming this scum lot of murderers and career criminals.

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