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U.S. Department of Justice
National Drug Intelligence Center
South Florida HIDTA Drug Market Analysis 2010
May 2010
Colombian and Mexican DTOs are the principal suppliers of wholesale quantity drugs in the South Florida HIDTA region. They supply most of the available illicit drugs in the HIDTA region to African American, Caucasian, Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, Hispanic, Jamaican, and Puerto Rican distributors, and to street gang members.
Colombian DTOs, the dominant wholesale traffickers in the South Florida HIDTA region, supply a large portion of the wholesale-level cocaine and SA heroin available in the South Florida HIDTA region, relying heavily on Bahamian, Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, Puerto Rican, and Venezuelan DTOs and criminal groups to transport these drugs through transit areas in the Caribbean. Colombian DTOs in the South Florida HIDTA region also work with Mexican DTOs to coordinate the transportation of powder cocaine from Colombia through Central America and Mexico into the United States, and eventually into Florida.
Mexican DTOs supply wholesale quantities of cocaine and marijuana, and lesser quantities of heroin and methamphetamine available in the South Florida HIDTA region. They obtain illicit drugs from Mexican DTOs in southwestern states and Atlanta, Georgia. For example, in November 2009, law enforcement officers arrested members of a Mexican DTO in Palm Beach County and seized kilogram quantities of cocaine and approximately $500,000 in U.S. currency. The cocaine was obtained from a source of supply located near the Southwest Border and sold to midlevel and retail-level distributors in Palm Beach County.
UNCLASSIFIED
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