Drug dealers were using his boats to escape from the US.
Cigarette boat drug smuggling. Police seized boats ATVs cigarettes and 600000 cash and arrested 12 people after busting an alleged cigarette smuggling and drug trafficking ring based in. Aronow had just left a meeting with Bob Saccenti part owner of Apache Power Boats together with partner Ben Kramer. Most cigarette boats are 30 to 50 feet 9 to 15 meters long and about 8 feet 2 meters long.
Customs Serviceto Kramer and his father in 1985. It started with faster and bigger boats then a 65-foot wooden trawler then a fleet of tug boats. Unfortunately his boats were also being used by cocaine smugglers.
Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen were found guilty of smuggling 512m of cocaine Two men who were in charge of a boat carrying cocaine worth 512m have been convicted of an international. With Kramer onboard Laniers smuggling operation moved onto bigger stakes. Originally they headed straight to US.
On February 3 1987 Aronow was murdered in his car at the end of 188th Street in Miami where his boat companies operated. Crafty cartels make billions of dollars sending small swift boats loaded with narcotics from Latin America to the United States. Shores but due to increased law.
The practice commonly used by organized crime syndicates and rebel groups is a. Cigarette smuggling also informally referred to as buttlegging is the illicit transportation of cigarettes or cigars from an administrative division with low taxation to a division with high taxation for sale and consumption. Soon the tug boats.
The great speed of Cigarette boats also made them a popular choice among cocaine smugglers. Coast Guard and Navy ships patrol the Caribbean and capture a lot. One of those characters was a race-boat driver and drug smuggler named Ben Kramer.