Mexican soldiers have arrested Ovidio Limon Sanchez, a top lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel and one of the DEA’s highest profile targets. Captured in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state on Mexico’s Pacific coast, Limon Sanchez was described by that country’s Defense Ministry as being on the ten most-wanted list and “one of the most [...]
2011 Nov 11 | Posted in
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon this week accused the United States of dumping criminals at the border to avoid the cost of prosecuting them, and claimed the practice has increased violence in Mexico’s border region. US officials have reported a record number of deportations in fiscal year 2011, and said the number deported with criminal convictions [...]
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Brazilian Federal Police have arrested two men accused of murder in Tokyo under contract to the Yakuza, the feared Japanese mafia. On Tuesday, Interpol agents captured Cristiano Ito (a.k.a. the Boar), age 35, in Mogi das Cruzes, and Cristian Marcelo Gomes Fukuda, 31, in Campinas. According to federal police, Ito’s head and neck [...]
Christoper “Dudus” Coke has pleaded guilty to trafficking three tons of marijuana and 30 lbs of cocaine into the US, as well as ordering the stabbing of a New York drug dealer. Coke, 42, told a judge in New York: “I’m pleading guilty because I am.” He said: “I also ordered the purchase of firearms [...]
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Mexico City.- Marisela Morales Ibáñez , attorney general of Mexico, signed an extradition treaty with Italy and a Treaty on Criminal Legal Assistance to fight against organized crime. The mexican Attorney Gral also held a meeting with the Italian Anti Mafia Director Mr. Piero Grasso. Both parts will collaborate in technical asssistance on Organized Crime, [...]
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Mexico: The alleged Zetas drug cartel leader suspected of killing a U.S. customs agent has been captured. His name is Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar, alias “el Manito”. He is believed to be the third in command of the criminal organization founded by former elite soldiers. Over the course of a decade, it went from being [...]
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Bosnian Serb wartime criminal general Ratko Mladic ,69, was arrested in Serbia Thursday in the village of Lazarevo, near the northeastern town of Zrenjanin around 100 km (60 miles) from the capital Belgrade, in the early hours. Mladic, is accused of orchestrating the massacre of 8,000 men and boys in the town of Srebrenica and [...]
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Illegal drug kingpins and horses apparently like each other. In Colombia, during the 80s and 90s, the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers and even Pablo Escobar had farms with “paso fino” horses and liked to hide in horse farms. Now, the mexican drug kingpins seems to shar same path, as their colombian colleagues. One way to show [...]
A serbian crime gang was seized by Brazilian federal police, showing an increasing problem for South America — foreign mafia groups (like the serbian) are increasingly using Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as corridors to export the continent’s cocaine to Europe and elsewhere. Sixteen alleged members of the Serbian mafia acting in South America were arrested [...]
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Recently, Brazil signed an agreement with Bolivia to fight cocaine production and trafficking in the country. The agreement aims to replace the absence of the DEA in Bolivia, when this country expelled the US Drug Enforcement Administration in 2008 for alleged “political interference”. In the last months, there is an increase in the suspicions about [...]
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