Deputies: Voodoo helped guide ring before arrests

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Deputies: Voodoo helped guide ring before arrests

California supplier shipped drugs to Lakeland, Atlanta
and Las Vegas

(Video courtesy of Polk Sheriff's Office) Deputies in
Polk County today will reveal details about the downfall
of a major methamphetamine drug-trafficking organization.

By Henry Pierson Curtis, Staff Writer
Orlando Sentinel
orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

A drug ring that employed a vast network - including a
voodoo priest - supplying methamphetamine across Central
Florida and the U.S. was shutdown this week, the Polk
County Sheriff's office announced Wednesday.

The 13 suspects arrested Tuesday were among 25 couriers,
distributors and street dealers identified in Operation
Hoodoo Voodoo, the investigation of a multimillion-dollar
meth pipeline from Mexico.

Javier Flores, known as "El Don (The Boss)," supervised
the shipments from his home in southern California and
remains at large, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady
Judd.

On Tuesday, 44 pounds of the powerful amphetamine were
seized at Love's Truck Stop in Polk City, where one of
the ring leaders, Luis Villafuerte-Rojas, was arrested
when the shipment arrived by truck from California.

The uncut powder was worth about $2 million, according to
the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

The identity of the priest and where he lived were not
released during a news conference Wednesday.

Serving as spiritual advisor to Flores and Ma-Conception
Lopez, 38, the ring's other leader in Central Florida,
the priest also stayed in contact with lower-level
members, said sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Woods.

In February, after $200,000 in cash was seized by
investigators, the ringleaders sought the priest's
guidance.

Continues at:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-voodoo-priest-meth-ring-busted-20140319,0,5871635.story

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