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News: US$1-million bounty placed on narco chief's head

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With recent cocaine busts hitting them in the pocket, foreign-connected drug interests here have placed a US$1-million (J$60-m) bounty on the head of Jamaica's narcotics chief, Senior Superintendent Carl Williams, Sunday Observer sources said...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Narcotics Chief Carl WilliamsContacted by the newspaper, Williams confirmed the threats had been made on his life but declined to say how the threats were conveyed to him.
"Yes, the information has come to me that the threat is out there and it's a US$1-million bounty that is on my head," said Williams.

The threats have been made within the last three weeks, and Williams said as far as he was aware, "local drug interests with foreign connections" were involved.
Williams is the second senior cop to receive death threats in recent times, following threats against Police Commissioner Francis Forbes, which forced the top cop to increase security around him.

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