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U.S. Department of Justice
National Drug Intelligence Center
South Florida HIDTA Drug Market Analysis 2010
May 2010
The South Florida HIDTA region comprises Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach Counties. (See Figure 1.) The region is the principal arrival zone for multiton quantities of cocaine, marijuana, and multikilogram quantities of heroin transported through the Caribbean corridor into the continental United States. The region is also a distribution center for cocaine, heroin, high-potency marijuana, and CPDs intended for distribution in many states, including Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia, as well as the New England region. The South Florida HIDTA region is also a major venue for laundering and moving billions of dollars in illicit drug proceeds.
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1. South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
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The South Florida HIDTA region is a large, multiethnic, densely populated metropolitan area with a diversified economy based on tourism, manufacturing, import/export businesses, banking, and information technology. The region has a highly developed transportation infrastructure composed of seaports, airports, and roadways with links to drug source and transit areas as well as eastern U.S. drug markets. Drug traffickers routinely exploit this infrastructure to transport illicit drugs into, through, and from the region to other drug markets in Florida and the eastern United States.
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