Criminal Justice Organized Crime the Research Paper

As an alternative, on the foundation of information obtained from confidential informants, the government petitioned the district court to give permission for the placement of an electronic surveillance wire tap on Jesus Zambrana's private telephone. Information obtained over this wire tap led law enforcement officers to think that Ernest Lonzo and another unidentified person were carrying narcotics from Miami, Florida, to Jesus Zambrana's house in Gary, Indiana.

On the foundation of this wire tap information, DEA agents, with the help of police officers from Lake County, Indiana, and East Chicago, Indiana, began the surveillance of Interstate Highway I-65 in the area of Crown Point, Indian. Prior to starting the surveillance, a DEA agent met with Lake County, Indiana, police officers and gave them a list of five people suspected as being involved in the carrying of narcotics between Florida and Indiana, as well as a list of four vehicles thought to be utilized by these suspects.Each of the defendants was tried separately on the assorted drug and wire fraud charges. The wire tap on Jesus Zambrana's telephone fashioned most of the evidence introduced by the government to link the Zambranas and Charles Cole with the attempted delivery of the apprehended cocaine from Florida to Indiana. The evidence against the defendants was made up chiefly of approximately thirty tapes which included conversations between Jay and Jesus Zambrana and several co-conspirators, including Ernest Lonzo, that were obtained by way of the wiretap that had been placed on Jesus Zambrana's telephone. In this case these tried and trued methods of law enforcement lead to several convictions.

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Informants, Surveillance, and Undercover Operations. (2010). Retreived from http://www.drtomoconnor.com/3220/3220lect02c.htm

United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Jesus Zambrana, Sr., Charles Cole and Jay

Zambrana, 841 F.2d 1320. (1988). Retreived from http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/841/841.F2d.1320.86-1501.86-1402.86-1115.html.....