Legal Opinion
United States v. Guillermo Javier Mejia, A/K/A Miguel Jorge Ortega, Ramon Lopez
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 14, 1996No. 91-6108PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:
Guillermo Mejia, Jorge Ortega and Ramon Lopez appeal drug convictions. We affirm.
Jose Benitez, a confidential informant working under the supervision of Special Agent Paul Grimal, was placed on a boat going from Miami to Columbia, South America. Benitez was to gather intelligence on the Columbian drug trade and (if contacted by cocaine traffickers) to arrange to bring cocaine into the United States so that the distributors could be arrested. When Beni-tez’s boat arrived at an island off the coast of Columbia, Benitez was notified that “Cesar” wanted him to smuggle…
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