World : ‘Godfather,’ ‘Witch’ May Be in U.S.
Authorities today intensified their manhunt for the “godfather” of a drug-smuggling voodoo cult that allegedly sacrificed and mutilated at least 13 people to make its members invulnerable.
U.S and Mexican authorities were searching for Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a Cuban who police said orchestrated the ritual slayings on a remote ranch outside this Mexican border town.
Constanzo is believed to have fled into the United States with Matamoros resident Sara Maria Aldrete, a 24-year-old, 6-1 brunette described by Texas Atty. Gen. Jim Mattox as the “witch of the operation.” A wanted poster issued by the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department in Texas described her as “extremely dangerous. Use caution.”
In Miami, television station WPLG reported that Metro-Dade police have been alerted that Constanzo was believed to be heading toward the Florida city where he grew up.
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