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When you’re posting photos of your travels on social media, someone is waiting to catch you slipping. Keep this in mind if your spouse is a drug kingpin and he’s wanted by the Feds.
A wanted, and since caught, drug dealer pushing major weight out of Costs Rica found this out the hard way after he got pinched thanks to his wife posting selfies while on vacation in Europe.
Reports the U.S. Sun:
The 43-year-old was held in London after arriving to celebrate the New Year with Estefania McDonald Rodriguez on a £16,000 holiday.
American Drug Enforcement Administration agents had followed her social media posts about visits to the capital, and Paris.
They had to strike while Grijalba was out of Costa Rica, as the nation usually bars extradition of its own.
One picture showed Grijalba, known as Shock, and his wife in a cream fur-collared coat in front of the Eiffel Tower.
The struggle drug dealer in question is Luis Manuel Picado Grijalba, 43, who got arrested in London this past December. He is reportedly accused of sending cocaine from Costa Rica to the United States, and will be looking at a hefty jail sentence.
And he got caught because his wife had to stunt on Instagram and Facebook. Son…
Reportedly, struggle El Chapo’s wife, Estefania McDonald Rodriguez, made sure to strike poses on the Internets during their European and Colombian vacations, making the job of the authorities (including the DEA) easier as they moved to arrest him when they peeped he was in London. Reportedly, the wife had a habit of travelling overseas but “Shock” wasn’t always with her.
Shock will be learning his fate—as in if he’ll be get getting extradited to the US—next month.
Grijalba faced Westminster JPs the day after his arrest and is contesting extradition to the US, where he can expect a lengthy jail term.
The case was adjourned until next month.
He has survived two assassination attempts in Costa Rica, including one in which he cowered behind a cherry tree while seven comrades were gunned down.
An NCA spokesman said: “Luis Picado Grijalba, 43, was arrested in the London Bridge area on December 29 and remanded into custody.
“Extradition proceedings are ongoing.”
No word on if he’s broken up with wife, though.
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Rayful Edmond, a notorious drug kingpin whose operation terrorized the Washington, D.C. streets at the height of the so-called “Crack Era” is reportedly dead according to unconfirmed accounts. Rayful Edmond was released from prison this past summer after serving well over three decades behind bars and was transferred to a reentry facility in Tennessee.
On X, formerly Twitter, social media accounts are claiming that the brother of Edmond confirmed that his sibling has died although we have yet to see an official report. Edmond, 59, ran a lucrative drug operation that not only ravaged the Nation’s Capital, but also ignited turf wars, and bloody shootouts, and placed the wider region under siege.
We’ve reached out to sources looking for a confirmation but nothing has yet to materialize. We also reached out to the Residential Reentry Management (RRM) office in Nashville where Edmond was reportedly sent to after his prison release to no avail.
As we gather more information, we’ll be back to update this post.
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Rayful Edmond, once the most powerful drug kingpin in Washington, D.C. during the so-called “Crack Era” has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house. According to the reports, Rayful Edmond is being held in a facility in Nashville, Tenn.
Local Washington outlet Fox 5 DC reports that Rayful Edmond, 59, was transferred on Wednesday (July 31) to the halfway house by the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Nashville Residential Reentry Management Office. The outlet added that Edmond is either under home confinement, a Residential Reentry Center, or a halfway house.
Edmond oversaw a sprawling crack cocaine in the 1980s, and his meteoric rise atop the drug lord food chain came with requisite violence which included murders carried out on his behalf that turned the streets of Washington, D.C. into a literal war zone. Edmond was also known for his lavish spending while also becoming something of a mythical and even beloved figure by some.
Ruling with fear heightened by the threat of violence from his street soldiers, Edmond commanded his drug network with the precision of a Fortune 500 company until his propensity to live out loud eventually led authorities to halt his operation. Edmond was previously serving a life sentence without parole due to his mounting federal drug charges after taking a guilty plea in 1989.
Edmond continued to deal drugs while in prison, leading to his subsequent arrest in 1994. From there, Edmond flipped on his organization and cooperated with federal investigators, a point of his life that has been documented in droves by several outlets.
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