The Nation - News from Dec. 9, 1986

Agents have crushed a major drug ring that used luxury cruise ships to smuggle 200 pounds of Colombian cocaine each month for the past 10 years from the Caribbean to Florida, Robert M. Stutman, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York office, said. Investigators confiscated 432 pounds of cocaine, several guns, $10,000 in cash and arrested 22 people, including the ring’s alleged principal, Ronald W. Davis, 37, of Los Angeles, Stutman said. Seven other people indicted remain at large, he said.