Legal Opinion
United States v. Alberto Calderon
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 14, 1997No. 90-6020, 91-5743 and 94-4354PublishedCited by 314 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FOREMAN, Senior District Judge:
In this consolidated appeal, eight appellants appeal their convictions for various narcotics offenses arising from the importation of more than 1,300 kilograms of cocaine aboard the 38-foot cabin cruiser named What’s Up. We affirm.
I. Background
On September 14, 1988, Customs Agent Richard Johnson received a tip that a suspicious vessel named What’s Up was being towed into Tortola Marina in Key Largo, Florida. Agent Johnson learned that the What’s Up had been previously sighted in the Bahamas and had failed to report its arrival into the United States in violation…
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