Accused wanted dealer's drug business, jury hears

By Bob Mitchell for the Toronto Star - The plot to kill one of Canada's top cocaine traffickers was hatched just before Mother's Day 2005 in a Toronto restaurant, jurors heard today at the trial of three men accused of murdering Mauricio Castro. Jorge Acosta, 31, told jurors he volunteered to get people to murder Castro, 31, and his father Humberto, 71, in his native Colombia — an offer Jaime Restrepo accepted. "I said I could get rid of them .....

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By sloopskipper on Jun 8, 2008, 10:55 in Politics & the war.

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