United States drug-enforcement agents appear to have come across the first details it learned about the alleged criminal empire of accused drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke by chance.

Those details, according to a recent New York Times article, came out while investigators were grilling Jamaican drug dealer, Lloyd Reid, after a routine arrest on gun and drug charges in The Bronx, New York, in October 2007.

The article stated that Reid, who was convicted last year on conspiracy to distribute marijuana, told investigators about someone he depicted as "one of the most powerful men in all of Jamaica". ...