Darrin Ebron On the Run Faces Life in Prison Cocaine Smuggling Ring | Wacktrap | Share your crazy and outrageous stories here: "well-known celebrity disc jockey is on the run—facing life in prison—on charges of cocaine drug smuggling and transport plus more than million dollars cash seized. Life is not so good for the 'Goodlife Clothing' owner: DJ Darrin Ebron is going to have a hard time showing, or not showing, his face--status and livelihood won't help the disc jockey, whom the DEA believes may have taken a plane to escape.
Heads of an entertainment company are among 14 people indicted in a cocaine drug ring: the FBI alleges use of private jets in transporting large amounts of the coke drug from Southern California to Baltimore. The alleged drug ring is and its 14 members are accused of smuggling hundreds of pounds of cocaine via private jets, during roughly six months’ time between May and November 2010. Nearly 300 kilograms of cocaine and $1.1 million dollars cash has been seized.
Celebrity DJ Ebron and three others are still being sought by investigators—Ebron believed to be on the run—facing up to life in prison if convicted in the cocaine smuggling ring case.
Drug trafficking and money laundering charges are being levied against big-time industry names including Darrin Ebron, age 43—who operates “Goodlife American Clothing” and is a top celebrity disc jockey. Ebron is known for serving as DJ at Eddie Murphy's 2008 wedding nuptials in Bora Bora. Separately indicted are Los Angeles-based men Ricky Brascom, age 28, and Charles Ransom Jr., age 36. The pair serves as co-chief executive officers of “Behind da Scenes Entertainment”, a company whose main artist is rapper “Paypa”."

Reynosa pharmacist arrested with $4.4 million in cocaine : News : ValleyCentral.com: "pharmacy supervisor is expected to face a federal judge in McAllen after he allegedly tried to smuggle more than $4.4 million dollars worth of cocaine into the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arrested 27-year-old Cristian Santiago-Garin on federal drug charges.
Investigators told Action 4 News that Santiago-Garin drove up to Mission's Anzalduas International Bridge in a 2010 Dodge Nitro on Sunday.
Court records released Wednesday show Santiago-Garin was with his wife and their one-and-a-half-year-old son.
The 27-year-old Mexican pharmacist told customs officers he and his family were going shopping in McAllen.
Customs officers inspected the SUV and found 57 bundles with 139.7 pounds of cocaine hidden in the rear seat floorboard.
Authorities estimate that the drugs are worth $4,472,692 dollars on the streets.
Santiago-Garin told customs officer that got involved in the deal through a car sales man he met in Reynosa four months ago.
The pharmacy supervisor told customs officers that he knew the SUV had drugs but didn't know what kind or how much."

5 million pounds of heroin shipped as chilli powder: "Heroin worth more than 5 million pounds has been seized by the UK Border Agency at the Port of Felixstowe, the biggest detection of the drug in the UK this year.

The estimated 80 kg of heroin had been shipped to the UK from Asia in a single container listed as chilli powder, official sources said.

Attention was drawn to the shipment by a discrepancy in the paperwork and the container was selected for further examination."

US Citizen Arrested in Soekarno-Hatta Airport for Drug Smuggling Attempt | The Jakarta Globe: "Custom officials at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport seized 2.3 kg of marijuana from an American citizen on Thursday.

David BD, 34, was arrested after disembarking from a Cathay Pacific plane from Los Angeles.

Custom official Gatot Sugeng Wibowo said the marijuana was hidden in oatmeal cans and in a detergent pack."

Jessie Gallegos, 47, of Phoenix, and Jose Villarreal-Gazaviz, 31, of Nayarit, Mexico, are refusing to cooperate with investigators, Chavez said.

The suspects were being held Sunday at the Henderson jail on federal charges of distributing heroin and conspiracy.

A dog from metro police's narcotics K-9 unit "alerted" on the bags, police said. Metro detectives have enlisted the help of the Drug Enforcement Agency.

It wasn't immediately clear if Gallegos or Villarreal-Gazaviz had a lawyer. The Henderson Detention Facility's website refers queries about the defendants to the U.S. marshal's office, which didn't return a phone from the AP on Sunday.

Henderson's jail has a contract to house federal defendants, Cassell said.