{"id":2158,"date":"2009-03-21T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2009-03-21T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T13:48:50","slug":"2158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/21\/2158\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican drug cartels thrive in suburban Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CNN    <\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexican drug cartels thrive in suburban Atlanta   <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oscar Reynoso owed his bosses $300,000, and he was running out of time. &#8212; Gunmen snatched Reynoso and locked him in the basement of a home to try to settle the drug debt. &#8212; He was chained to a wall of the basement by his hands and ankles, gagged and beaten. His captors, members of a powerful Mexican drug cartel&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the city known for Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines has become a major distribution hub for Mexican drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>In fiscal year 2008, authorities confiscated about $70 million in drug-related cash in Atlanta, more than anywhere else in the United States, the Drug Enforcement Administration says. <\/p>\n<p>This fiscal year, Atlanta continues to outpace all other U.S. regions in such seizures, with $30 million confiscated so far. Next are Los Angeles, California, with about $19 million, and Chicago, Illinois, with $18 million.  More  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/03\/19\/atlanta.drug.cartels\/index.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Mexican drug cartels thrive in suburban Atlanta Oscar Reynoso owed his bosses $300,000, and he was running out of time. &#8212; Gunmen snatched Reynoso and locked him in the basement of a home to try to settle the drug debt. &#8212; He was chained to a wall of the basement by his hands and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}