Federal police in Mexico today said they had captured an alleged drug gang kingpin who faces drug-trafficking charges in the US and has been blamed for a vicious turf war in central Mexico.
The announcement came just hours after the government revealed that almost 10% of the federal police force had been fired this [...]
ROME .- “Everything OK, Paolo.” Oddly enough, this innocent text message sent via a cell phone to one of the most popular Italian t.v. shows, was really a coded message used by the mafia to communicate with the imprisoned bosses that are held incommunicado, under prison conditions of isolation.
Simple and effective, this new technique was [...]
Reporting from Mexico City and San Diego — In a significant blow against the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexican troops on Thursday killed one of the group’s top figures during an arrest raid in western Mexico.
The raid came as troops in Tijuana rounded up dozens of police officers in a separate operation targeting organized crime.
Ignacio [...]
LA PAZ – President Evo Morales’s administration acknowledged that Bolivia’s drug clans have links to Mexico’s violent Los Zetas cartel, the official ABI news agency reported Thursday.
Los Zetas has established links to the families that control the drug trade in the Andean nation, but the Mexican cartel and other foreign gangs [...]
Bounty hunters who help nab two leaders of a Maoist terrorist group suspected of involvement in Peru’s cocaine trade will be given rewards of up to $5 million by the United States, the U.S. embassy in Lima said on Monday, in a report published by Reuters.
The rewards target Florindo Eleuterio Flores, known as comrade Artemio, who [...]
The arrest of Dominic Erineu Soligo alias ”Pingo” last Saturday in Paraguay, has everything to do with the safety of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Considered a leading supplier of drugs in Brazil, he has the South of Brazil as the main market. Trafficking caused a criminal war because of disputes over the sale of marihuana in addition to [...]
MEXICO CITY – A high-level member of the Los Zetas drug cartel was captured by army troops, the Mexican Defense Secretariat said.
Esteban Luna was the cartel’s boss in Monterrey, the capital of the northern state of Nuevo Leon, and was behind several attacks on army troops and a U.S. consulate, the secretariat said.
Luna took over [...]
A top Colombian drug lord whom the United States has long considered one of the most dangerous smugglers pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to trafficking tons of heroin and cocaine into the U.S.
Francisco Gonzalez-Uribe had been awaiting trial in New York on charges of running a criminal enterprise dating [...]
At least 76 people died to bring him here. Accused Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke is now on U.S. soil. He made the trip to the U.S. on a private plane that landed at White Plains Airport, outside New York City.
According to a federal indictment, as far back as 1994, Coke, [...]
“The main drug kingpin of the criminal serbian group Saric has not been yet arrested, that may mean that he has been here,” said yesterday the Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, after meeting with Uruguayan Interior Minister Eduardo Bonomi.
The two Secretaries of State agreed to sign a memorandum of cooperation between [...]
