Five people were arrested Tuesday in a sprawling cross-country drug trafficking organization that funneled some 22 tons of cocaine and more than $100 million in cash between Los Angeles and New York, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

In a news release, prosecutors said the organizations’ alleged ringleaders, 45-year-old Dumont, New Jersey resident David Rodriguez, aka “Gotti” and “Fat Boy,” and 39-year-old Manhattan resident 38-year-old Raymond O’Connell, aka “Sal” and “White Boy,” have been in custody since 2024.

The two men are accused of purchasing and shipping bulk quantities of cocaine stored kept at an office fronting as a jewelry store in the California Jewelry Mart in downtown L.A.

Cocaine was reportedly shipped in locked plastic cases concealed to New Yor

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