Pubdate: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 Source: Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) Copyright: 2004 Sun-Sentinel Company Contact: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/159 Author: Associated Press Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n908.a06.html SUSPECTED JAMAICAN DRUG TRAFFICKER CAUGHT IN BAHAMAS NASSAU, Bahamas -- Bahamian and U.S. officers captured a suspected Jamaican drug trafficker named in a Miami indictment, authorities said Friday. Pedro Smith was arrested as he attempted to leave the Bahamas on a private plane Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Homeland Security Department in Miami said in a statement. Smith was caught after U.S. federal agents connected flight plans and news reports that a plane linked to Smith had left Jamaica headed for the Bahamas, the statement said. No further information was available. A Homeland Security spokeswoman in Miami did not immediately return calls. Smith was named in one of two federal indictments unsealed in Miami on Wednesday. Operation Double Talk focused on Bahamian and Jamaican shippers who moved cocaine through South Florida to New York distributors. The two indictments targeted modern-day pirates blamed for smuggling 10 percent of the U.S. cocaine supply from the northern coast of Colombia through the Caribbean by sea and air. Law enforcement agencies in the United States and six other nations reported the arrests of more than 50 reputed traffickers tied to two drug and money laundering organizations blamed for delivering about 6,000 pounds of cocaine each month and making $290 million in profits since 1999. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin