A Miami music executive has been indicted in a federal drug trafficking case involving criminal activity that spanned from Los Angeles to Miami-Dade counties and beyond.
According to the indictment, Nahim Jorge Bonilla, who owns the companies Mandrake and Ruido Callejero Music, is accused of conspiring to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine for Ryan James Wedding and Andrew Clark.
Video from Wednesday night shows the moments law enforcement swarmed Bonilla's home along Island Estates Drive in Aventura, asking for his surrender.
In the footage, officers could be heard yelling for Bonilla to surrender over a loudspeaker in Spanish: "Nahim Jorge Bonilla, this is the FBI. We have an arrest warrant."
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The FBI would only confirm in a statement that "this was court ordered law enforcement activity in support of an FBI Los Angeles case."
In the indictment, Bonilla is accused of taking 12 kilograms of cocaine from Wedding and Clark at an unknown date “for the purpose of distributing it.”
He allegedly paid for seven and was fronted the other five kilograms. Wedding and Clark later threatened to kill his mother if he did not pay his outstanding debt, court documents state.
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Bonilla paid off two of the kilograms with cryptocurrency and in June sent a driver to Laval, Québec, Canada “to tender approximately 20 kilograms of methamphetamine as payment for the three remaining kilograms of cocaine,” according to the indictment.
Wedding, Clark and 13 others face other charges including murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to export cocaine.
According to court documents, the drug trafficking operation took place in California counties including Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino, Miami-Dade County in South Florida, Mexico, Colombia, Canada and elsewhere.
NBC6 is working to learn more about the investigation.
