And defends 2013 budget requests From congressional testimony by William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement Before the House Appropriations Committee Washington, DC March 29, 2012 The persistently high homicide and crime rates throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and the horrific violence inside Mexico, are symptoms of a broader [...]
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A former US Lieutenant and an active duty Sergeant have been arrested with four other men in Laredo, Texas, for drug trafficking and an alleged murder-for-hire plot, according to federal officials. The arrests followed a federal sting operation in which the suspects allegedy planned to purchase weapons for drug cartel members in return for money and drugs. Kevin Corley, 29, and Samuel Walker, 28, [...]
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A high-ranking official retiring from the Federal Bureau of Investigation has grim words about public and private attempts to block cyberattacks on corporate targets: “We’re not winning.” Shawn Henry, the FBI’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, told the Wall Street Journal that the government and private companies are incapable of protecting sensitive data from hackers. He described current tactics as “unsustainable,” saying that [...]
Jaime Alberto Marín Zamora, a Colombian cocaine kingpin, has been sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to US drug trafficking charges. A judge in Miami imposed the sentence today on the 47-year-old, a former leader of Colombia’s North Valley cartel. He had faced up to 24 years, but prosecutors [...]
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New Big Brother story. A new CCTV camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of archived camera footage instantly, and find any face which has ever walked past it. The camera ‘processes’ faces as it records, so that all faces which pass in front of it are recorded and stored instantly as a [...]
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A judge in Campos, Brazil, may transfer the criminal case filed against Chevron and drill-rig operator Transocean to Rio de Janeiro, a move that would eliminate a crusading prosecutor from that case. Eduardo Santos de Oliveira, a federal prosecutor based in Campos, in Rio de Janeiro’s interior, said on Friday that a jurisdictional review is under way that could postpone criminal indictment of both [...]
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A Colombian army attack against a FARC camp has left 33 guerrillas dead in an oil region bordering Venezuela, the sharpest blow struck by security forces against the rebel group in the last year, that government said Wednesday. The offensive against a column of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) took place in the northeast department of Arauca, the same [...]
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Venezuela announced Saturday the arrest of 11 police officers suspected in the death of the Chilean consul’s daughter in western Zulia state, in yet another black eye for the crime-plagued country. Karen Berendique, 19, died in a confusing incident on Friday night after officers allegedly opened fire on a vehicle driven by her brother in the capital of Zulia, Maracaibo. “The prosecution will present charges in [...]
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A Guatemalan court on Monday sentenced a former special forces soldier to 6,060 years in prison for participating in a 1982 slaughter where 201 people were killed. Pedro Pimentel, 55, was deported last year from Los Angeles to Guatemala to face charges of murder and crimes against humanity. He is the fifth soldier to be sentenced for [...]
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In an early Saturday raid at two prisons in the Mexican city of Morelia, the Michoacan Ministry of Public Security seized drugs, weapons, alcohol and a wide variety of household appliances including plasma screen televisions. At a press conference, the head of the agency said that items confiscated at Mil Cumbres prison included an M1 rifle with seven rounds of ammunition, a Colt [...]
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