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— Drug —(Continued from Page 1)once based its drug smuggling operations here, and was the local link to the Cali Cartel.Juan Garcia Abrego has been wanted in the United States since November 1990 after a federal grand jury indicted him, describing as the head of a Mat-amoros-based drug smuggling organization with ties in Texas, New York and Illinois.A $1 million reward is being offered for his arrest here, while in the United States the FBI offers $300,000.So far, Juan Garcia Abrego has eluded authorities on both sides of the Rio Grande, but some believe that his days are counted.One of them is Oscar Lopez Olivares, a former aide of the reputed drug lord.“They have placed Chichi under house arrest so he won’t leave the country,” he said of Humberto Garcia Abrego as he is called by those who know him.Lopez Olivares, widely known as “El Profe,” said the government is finally closing in on the Garcia Abrego empire.“Now is the time for the people of Matamoros to file, report or complain anything they have to about the Garcia Abrego brothers,” he said. The two
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Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Sat, Oct 15, 1994
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