Legal Opinion
United States v. Abdel Eltayib, Jaime Enrique Monsalvo Padilla and Jorge Portocarrero Pena
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 8, 1996No. 563, 564, 565, 566, 567 and 568, Dockets (94-1542(L)), 94-1543, 94-1546, 94-1547, 94-1674, 94-1676 and 95-1046PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Through a tip, the government learned that a ship-to-ship transfer of a large cocaine shipment was going to take place 80 miles off the coast of New Jersey. The Coast Guard deployed high-tech aerial surveillance, but the technology failed and the two ships got away. The boat that received the cocaine (over 4700 kilograms of it) had the government’s informant aboard, so that boat was easily found and detained later the same day. Two days later, by a stroke of luck, the government found what it believed to be the transferring ship. The ship’s nine crew members were…
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