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 | | According to the DEA, throughout the late eighties and early nineties, Santacruz was responsible for exporting as much as 800,000 grams of cocaine a week into New York, where it was stored and distributed through a network of safe houses in Queens and Brooklyn. |
 | | Santacruzs cocaine empire was vertically integrated: he and another faction of the Cali cartel controlled production, processing, distribution, and sales. |
 | | In 1988, at the height of their alleged conspiracy, the DEA busted a Santacruz employee, Luis Ramos, at a safe house in Queens, where they confiscated $7.8 million in cash; later that month, another Santacruz courier was found in possession of 2,000 kilograms of cocaine and $2.2 million in drug proceeds. |
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