By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The DEA has busted a drug-smuggling ring that led to the arrest of the Venezuelan president’s family in Haiti, UPI.com reports.
Arrested were two nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores Freites are accused of trying to smuggle 1,700 pounds of cocaine from Haiti to the U.S.
The nephews tried to claim they had diplomatic immunity, a claim that didn’t work with the DEA.
They were taken to New York awaiting a court hearing today.
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