Drug trafficking

Puerto Rico drug gang fed victims' bodies to caimans, 75 indicted on trafficking charges: feds

Seventy-five people in Puerto Rico were indicted Wednesday for allegedly running a multimillion-dollar drug trafficking ring that including selling hard drugs in public housing complexes and throwing bodies of victims to caimans.

U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez announced Wednesday the group had been operating since 2006 and sold drugs -- including crack, cocaine, heroin and Xanax -- in the capital of San Juan as well as shipping cocaine to the U.S. mainland.

“Since we began investigating this violent gang, we were struck that they would take their victims and their bodies were thrown to the caimans,” Rodriguez said in a news conference Wednesday morning. “With those acts, we see the violence from this dangerous gang, who is known as Las FARC.”

FARC is translated to be “The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cantera,” which operated out of Barrio Obrero Ward in San Juan with the goal to “maintain control of all the drug trafficking activities with the in Santurce area by the use of force, threats, violence, and intimidation,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.