September 24, 1981.

In the early hours of the morning, a convoy of police vehicles snakes through the suburban

streets of Van Nijse in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.

The vehicles pull up outside a poorly maintained apartment block.

Disturbed by the flashing emergency lights, residents in the surrounding condos twitch their

curtains.

Peering out to get a look, they see a team of drug enforcement administration agents.

In their trademark black jackets, file out of the cars and begin surrounding the building.

Three officers cautiously approach the entrance.

Their weapons drawn.

The officers kick down the door and file in.

Nobody's home.

But this raid is more than worth their while.

Inside, the agents find 174 kilos of cocaine, along with $1.9 million.

It's already a good night, but the raid throws up something else.

The owners of the property have left behind a collection of ledgers.

Flipping through these papers, the agents soon realize they're the accounts for a vast

drug trafficking operation.

They indicate that in the last nine months alone, nearly one and a half tons of cocaine,

worth $73 million, have been smuggled into the US and stored right here in this apartment.

There's more.

Buried in the ledgers is the nickname of the supplier.

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