![]() ![]() That case fell apart, but authorities continued to pursue Blandon. Blandon, his wife, Chepita, and several others were arrested. 27, 1986, sheriff’s deputies, FBI agents and other law enforcement officials raided Blandon’s house in Rialto and a dozen other sites. But law enforcement agencies in Southern California were already on his trail. Blandon continued selling cocaine to Ross and others in Los Angeles. “Danilo and Norvin had done some business,” he recalled. ![]() One of Blandon’s drug trafficking associates described the scene at Meneses’ house near San Bruno when the news arrived. The other was Renato Pena Cabrera, who had served as the press spokesman for the FDN support group in the Bay Area. One of those arrested was Meneses’ nephew, Jairo Morales Meneses. One reason may have been the arrest on cocaine possession charges, in November 1984, of two of Meneses’ lieutenants in San Francisco. When Blandon was dealing with Ross in 19, Meneses was no longer his partner.īy the end of 1984, Meneses and Blandon also seem to have disappeared from the Contra fund-raising network, according to several sources who were active in supporting the rebels. But all agreed that Blandon relied increasingly on other suppliers, principally a Colombian named Aparicio Moreno. His associate and drug informants who were cited in a 1986 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department affidavit said the two men still did business from time to time. But Norvin Meneses settled in the San Francisco Bay Area and quickly resumed his cocaine-trafficking career.īlandon testified that he had stopped dealing with Meneses entirely by 1983. Some former Somocistas ended up in Miami or Guatemala City, began plotting their return and formed armed groups that became known as the Contras, short for contra-revolucion-the “counter-revolution.” Their efforts resulted in a civil war that lasted until a cease-fire in 1988. Fearing retribution from the triumphant Sandinistas, the Meneses clan fled along with hundreds of other Somoza loyalists. The Meneses family members were Somoza loyalists Norvin’s older brother was a general in the national guard and chief of the national police. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, whose family had ruled Nicaragua for 43 years. That high life ended in 1979, when the leftist Sandinista revolution overthrew Gen. You weren’t considered a criminal in Nicaraguan society to be trading in cocaine.” “Everyone knew he was a trafficker,” said the acquaintance, who asked not to be identified. ![]() Meneses attended lavish, cocaine-laced parties at a home in Managua and at his island retreat on Nicaragua’s remote Rio Escondido, an acquaintance recalled. ![]()
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