— A fugitive who fled international drug trafficking charges 29 years ago was arrested last month when he tried to walk into the U.S. from Canada in hopes of visiting his family, American authorities said Monday. “From what we understood, it was just him trying to get back into the United States to reunite with his family,” Kingsford said. Moritz is charged with distributing the drugs after LaMorte received them on his yacht, the “Mary Poppins.”The operation expanded to include smuggling drugs from Morocco, Lebanon and Colombia. One shipment held 20 tonnes of marijuana from Thailand and another held nearly 12 tonnes of hashish from Lebanon, according to the indictment. In all, the operation smuggled nearly 109 tonnes of drugs between 1971 and 1985, according to a New York Times article from 1991.

Source: National Post May 07, 2018 22:52 UTC