Pubdate: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 
Source: Chicago Tribune (IL)
Copyright: 1999 Chicago Tribune Company
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Author: From Tribune News Services

POLICE NET 1,105 SUSPECTS IN ISLAND RAID

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO -- Police arrested more than 1,100 people with
outstanding warrants in a "mega-raid" throughout the island, a local
newspaper reported Friday.

Police had rounded up 1,105 people, including 16 murder suspects, by
Thursday evening, said The San Juan Star. It was the island's sixth
islandwide raid this year, the newspaper said.

At least 475 of those arrested were wanted on drug charges. Narcotics agents
confiscated 37 vehicles, cash and hundreds of small bags of marijuana,
heroin and cocaine, the newspaper reported.

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