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Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By William B. Plowman for USA TODAY Rescue workers pick through the rubble of a police station Jan. 14 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The 5,000 convicts who escaped the National Penitentiary after the Jan. 12 earthquake threaten to boost drug activity. By Chris Hawley, USA TODAY Chaos, a lack of jobs and thousands of escaped prisoners could cause drug trafficking to jump in , where cocaine already flows through and into the United States, law enforcement officials say. The says Haiti and the are way stations for drugs coming to the USA from . The department says the number of drug planes landing in Haiti has been on the rise in...

 

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