Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- A Mexican physician performed plastic surgery to remove drug traffickers' fingerprints to help them avoid arrest, according to a federal indictment announced Friday.
Jose L. Covarrubias surgically removed the fingerprints of co-defendant Marc George and others implicated in a marijuana-dealing ring, U.S. Attorney Thomas A. Marino said.
Covarrubias, 49, of Nogales, Mexico, and Nogales, Ariz., was arrested Wednesday by federal drug agents. He was charged with conspiring to distribute more than a ton of marijuana in central Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and with being an accomplice and accessory after the fact to marijuana dealing.
Posted by Richard at May 12, 2007