SoFlo: Bullets, Dope & Dirty Money (5#) -

An indictment unsealed in federal court on Friday charges three Miami-Dade businessmen with financing Terrorism by doing business with a shopping center designated as a fundraiser for Hezbollah in the South American Triangle area. The men are accused of exporting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of electronic merchandise to the prohibited destination. The Hezbollah organization is linked to Lebanon and Iran.

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Meanwhile, further north, in Fort Lauderdale, various law enforcement agencies, including federal, were engaged in the apprehension of gun-running, narcotics trafficking and identity theft for "Operation Smoking Gun."

Seizures included:

about 300 firearms, including
a machine gun and 3 sawed-off shotguns;

thousands of Oxycodone pills, Percocet pills,
Endocet pills, Vicodin pills, Morphine pills,
Ecstasy pills, and kilos of illegal narcotics.

About 80 people have been charged, many
of them arrested over the past several days.

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