Ex-Travel Agent Pleads Guilty to Drug Charges
The U.S. Attorney’s office announced Monday that Luis S. Reyes, a Colombian national who owned a travel agency that was a front for laundering money, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid and abet drug trafficking.
The plea came on the seventh day of jury deliberations following a three-week trial where evidence linked Reyes’ Los Angeles operation to drug cartels in Cali and Medellin, Colombia, according to Assistant U.S. Atty. Marc R. Greenberg.
Last June, Reyes had pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including conspiring to launder drug proceeds and money laundering, stemming from a case developed by the U.S. Customs Service, the Internal Revenue Service and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
According to evidence introduced at the trial, the ring transported $11 million in drug proceeds between Los Angeles and Bogota, Colombia, during a four-month period in 1989-1990.
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