Triple murder

An investigation that stretched from South-Central Los Angeles to a small town in Denmark has resulted in the arrest of two men and the severing of a major link between a Colombian drug cartel and cocaine-dealing Los Angeles street gangs, authorities said Tuesday.

Federal and local officials said Brian (Waterhead Bo) Bennett, who recently moved to Tempe, Ariz., from South-Central Los Angeles, and Mario Ernesto Villabona-Alvarado, a Colombian national, had organized a nationwide drug ring headquartered in Los Angeles that distributed 1,000 kilograms–more than a ton–of crack cocaine a week.

Bennett, 24, who apparently linked up with Villabona-Alvarado about two years ago, was arrested Nov. 19 at a luxury home he recently purchased in Tempe. Villabona-Alvarado, 28, allegedly a ranking member of Colombia’s Cali drug cartel, was arrested the same day in Malibu.