| Venezuelan
Carlos Orense Met Colombian Narco Varela
Armed on Finca Cooperator Says
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
SDNY COURT, Nov
29 –
Venezuelan indicted
narco-trafficker Carlos Orense
Azocar was presented in
Magistrates Court in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on June 23, 2023 and Inner
City Press was (the only
media) there.
Orense had
just been extradited in from
Italy and the indictment
against him unsealed.
The case was
wheeled out and assigned to
District Judge Vernon S.
Broderick.
On
November 14, Inner City Press
covered the final pre-trial
conference before Judge
Broderick. Thread.
On November 28,
Inner City Press at 10 am
and later. Thread:
Now
cooperator Antonio Arvelaez
(in court also said Antonio
Arbelaez) takes the stand.
Says he trafficked over 100
tons of drugs to the US, most
of it with Orense. Also,
automatic rifles, he says.
This
continued, with sound effects,
on November 29. Thread:
OK - in 3d day of
Venezuela narco trial of US v
Carlos Orense. Cooperator
still on direct, says Hugo
Caravajal aka El Pollo
provided vehicles and FARC
cocaine. Pollo's lawyer is
here in the gallery with Inner
City Press
Cooperator:
Orense had a finca in Zarapa,
a big house and also an
apartment in Caracas. [Beyond
EL Pollo's, here in the
gallery are two other
SDNY-world defense lawyers....
Cooperator: At
the meeting at my uncle's
finca was El Pollo and the
Colombian narco Wilber Varela
[d. 2008]
AUSA: What sound
does an Uzi make?
Cooperator: dat
dat dat dat dat
The
computer screen with the map
of Orense's properties could
not be circled, during which
Orense's daughter was not in
the courtroom. The trial is
rolling forward - toward the
cross...
Inner City Press
will continue to cover the
trial.
The case is US v.
Azocar, 21-cr-379 (Broderick)
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