#California
7 entries tagged California.
Organizations (3)
- Cabazon Indian Reservation The Cabazon Indian Reservation is located near Indio, California, and is home to the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians.
- Stanford Research Institute The Stanford Research Institute (SRI) is a scientific research institute based in Menlo Park, California. In the early 1970s, SRI became the center of the U.S.
- Symbionese Liberation Army The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was a radical left-wing organization active in California in the mid-1970s. They are best known for the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst in 1974.[^1]
Places (4)
- Los Angeles Largest city in California and the center of the crack cocaine explosion in South Central Los Angeles, fueled by cocaine supplied by Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected drug ring throughout the 1980s.
- San Diego Southern California city where Ricky Ross was prosecuted, Danilo Blandón served as a DEA informant, and the pivotal DEA meeting with Gary Webb took place in October 1995.
- San Francisco Major California city that served as the base of operations for Norwin Meneses's cocaine trafficking network, the site of the Frogman Case, and the location of key DEA and FBI offices investigating Contra drug trafficking.
- South Central Los Angeles Region of Los Angeles that was the epicenter of the crack cocaine explosion in the early 1980s, where Danilo Blandón's Contra-connected cocaine was converted to crack and distributed by Ricky Ross's network.