11.   Authorities believe Rodriguez Lopez was responsible for receiving Colombian cocaine shipments in Mexico and laundering money from the Cali cartel.

12.   Authorities believe the murders were connected to the cocaine shipment, although the killings were never solved.

13.   Bernal is believed to have brokered cocaine shipments financed by Ochoa and others to the United States in alliance with a Mexican cartel.

14.   Both planes had entered Colombian air space from the Caribbean, presumably after delivering cocaine shipments to the north, said Velasco.

15.   But working with foreign police agencies, the DEA and Customs obtained information about specific cocaine shipments heading to Europe, Customs said.

16.   Dean, a farmer, also is charged with conspiring with Vincent and others in connection with the cocaine shipment.

17.   Dean also was charged with conspiring with Vincent and others in connection with the cocaine shipment.

18.   Dean Morris, also charged with drug trafficking in connection with the same cocaine shipment, is scheduled to go to trial in September.

19.   Dean Morris also was charged with conspiring with Vincent Morris and others in connection with the cocaine shipment.

20.   Drug traffickers frequently drop cocaine shipments at sea along the Caribbean coast, where collaborators in small boats pick them up.