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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
An alleged leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful and violent drug cartels has been arrested, security forces say.
Hector Raul Luna Luna is said to be the head of the Los Zetas gang in the north-eastern city of Monterrey, Mexico’s third largest city.
Officials said on Wednesday he was captured by soldiers [...]
When the Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding gave a speech on national television to announce the intention to capture and extradite to the United States the head of the drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke, he could not foresee a wave of violence that would burn the suburbs of the capital Kingston, [...]
Is the army protecting and helping the Sinaloan cartel in Juarez? “I would characterize the Mexican military as a kind of protection racket,” says Howard Campbell, an anthropologist at the University of Texas El Paso who’s studied the drug cartels. “That is, the Mexican military is not a cartel per se, sui generis, and it’s [...]
Biometric technology has taken new strides toward identification of moving people at distances of up to 10 feet, making all previous biometric technologies for establishing identity seem outmoded or in need of upgrading.
Sarnoff Corporation, the company behind the innovative technology, said the award-winning “Iris on the Move” system had demonstrated that [...]
