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A 27-year-old man, suspected to be a member of an international drug cartel was arrested from outer Delhi, police said on Tuesday. Police have seized 1 kg of heroin worth Rs 4 crore from the accused. The Special Cell was working on obtaining information about an international narcotic drug cartel that ...

A Brit accused of cocaine smuggling refuses to speak to lawyers because he is believed to be terrified of South American drug cartels. Sean Woods, 24, from Liverpool, was arrested in Lima last month after police allegedly found 32kg (70lbs) of cocaine, worth £4.5million, in his suitcase. It is nearly three ...

(Newser) – Frustration over the disappearance of three university students in Mexico turned to outrage Monday as authorities revealed the men were tortured and killed by cartel members who wrongly suspected them of belonging to a rival gang. Enrolled at Guadalajara's University of Audiovisual Media, ...

MEXICO: Three Mexican film students who disappeared last month in Jalisco state were murdered by a drug cartel and their bodies dissolved in acid, according to a top official. The head of the Jalisco State Attorney General's Office, Raul Sanchez, on Monday said that they have informed the families of the ...

Guido Guilermo Wolters, who is a member of one of the world's largest drug cartels, was extradited from Belgium to Russia. According to investigators, he supplied giant quantities of cocaine through Russia to England. The leader of this cartel is British citizen Leo Francis Morgan, who is in Panama.

One stolen car. Five South Carolina counties. Four criminal charges. What do these things have in common? A reported death threat from a Mexican drug cartel. David Bruce Sanders Jr., 45, is accused of leading multiple law enforcement agencies on a high-speed chase while driving a stolen car Friday, ...

KANSAS CITY (AP) — A Kansas man who was a major heroin dealer in the Kansas City area has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Dennis McLallen, 65, of Overland Park also was ordered to pay an $850,000 judgment, which was the estimated amount of money he made from drug sales.

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Border Patrol agents have seen a significant uptick in the number of migrants from Bangladesh attempting to illegally cross from Mexico into Texas at the Laredo Sector this year, and say Latin American drug cartels are charging each person as much as $27,000 to be smuggled into the U.S.. At a little more ...

A fresh wave of violence is sweeping through Mexico as the country prepares to choose its new president on July 1, reports Newsweek. At least 82 candidates and office holders have been killed since the electoral season kicked off in September, making this the bloodiest presidential race in recent history, ...

One reason MS-13 has failed so roundly at becoming a drug cartel is that it is more of a social club than a lucrative criminal enterprise. ... What harsh law enforcement tactics aimed at ending immigration and breaking up drug cartels won't do is address the real problems posed by MS-13 and other very ...

And it signaled a major escalation in Mexico's war against the drug cartels that were devastating the country. "Thanks to the unrelenting efforts of our United States law enforcement team and the critical assistance and sacrifice of our Mexican counterparts, a notorious drug cartel leader is where he should ...

He also represents artists in Mexico's banda and norteno music scene with alleged ties to drug cartels, including singer Julion Alvarez, who the Treasury Department designated as a drug trafficker last year. The singer has played several dates in the U.S. and in 2016 played gigs at the Honda Center in ...

MEXICO CITY - Some of Mexico's most notorious drug capos irked by a price hike on junk food inside federal prisons found an ally in the country's consumer protection agency Wednesday. The federal prosecutor for the consumer said prisoners shouldn't be gouged and should be able to buy products at ...

That binary strategy continues this year with, on the one hand, portraits of Elvis Presley (The King), Ruth Bader Ginsberg (RBG), and Fred Rogers (Won't You Be My Neighbor, already sold out) and, on the other, studies of drug cartel violence (Devil's Freedom) and the breakup of Yugoslavia (The Other Side ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) - A year-long investigation targeting a cartel drug ring operating out of an Austin mechanic shop netted more than three dozen arrests and copious amounts of narcotics. In a news conference Wednesday, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice released ...

In the meantime he worked in Reynosa, a Mexican border town across the Rio Grande River, when members of a drug cartel kidnapped him. "I was working in Reynosa and right there some people kidnapped me and obligated me to come over here [to the United States]," Alvarez said. Alvarez explained ...

Two people “with direct ties to a Mexican drug cartel” were sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to distribute more than 17 kilograms of cocaine, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. Jose Nunez, 66, of Fort Myers, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and Sila Nunez, of Fort Myers, was ...

On the Mexican side, it is called Reynosa, and it's home to a deadly war between the Gulf and Zeta drug cartels. We had come to investigate the smuggling of American weapons across the border where they are driving a spiral of violence. I'd found the AK-47 advertised on a website by an online seller and ...

One reason MS-13 has failed so roundly at becoming a drug cartel is that it is more of a social club than a lucrative criminal enterprise. Its members benefit from the camaraderie and support that comes with membership – not the heaping monetary rewards that never arrive. Entrepreneurs who hope to ...

The people behind a company that hacked Samsung and BlackBerry phones to make them more secure, have been indicted for allegedly conspiring with drug cartels to help them evade law enforcement and sell narcotics. Phantom Secure, a Canada-based firm, sold Samsung and BlackBerry devices that ...

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Police constable has been accused of running an interstate drug cartel and supplying contraband like heroin and cocaine to students of different colleges in Delhi and adjoining states, sources have informed. The revelation was made after Karnal police arrested four people, including ...

Cage will star in the thriller written and directed by a former active-combat Navy SEAL Jason Cabell. News Nick Harley. Mar 13, 2018. facebook · twitter · google+ · tumblr ... One of the hardest working men in show business, Nicolas Cage, has signed on to his next project, border-crossing drug trade thriller Running With the ...

The CEO of a tech company specializing in encrypted phones was arrested because his devices allegedly helped international drug cartels and other criminal organizations conduct business. Vincent Ramos was charged on Thursday with racketeering, conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs, aiding and ...

“The Mexican drug cartels have flooded the U.S. market with a much cheaper, and much more potent version of the drug. Prices have been cut by more than half and the drug is of a much purer quality,” he said. “Generally, the closer a location is to the Mexican border and major distribution points, such as ...

CALGARY, Alberta — Officials said what they believe to be the largest methamphetamine bust in Utah history, which happened during a traffic stop in Springville in 2016, led to a discovery of a drug cartel responsible for at least two homicides in Canada. Five Canadians accused of running an organized ...

Sources say the gang rose to international levels by smuggling marijuana and ecstasy across the border into the U.S., and trading it for meth with members of Mexican drug cartels. In one instance in 2016, three Calgary drug mules were busted in Utah after making a trade with the cartel in Los Angeles.

Authorities in Mexico say they have arrested an alleged leader of a major drug cartel, Los Zetas, as thousands of federal police have been deployed across the country in an effort to stem a staggering number of homicides. Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, a dual US-Mexican citizen known by his Zetas code ...

The Rabobank fine comes less than six years after HSBC (HSBC) agreed to pay $1.92 billion to settle a similar case. The DOJ and U.S. Treasury said in 2012 that HSBC allowed the most notorious international drug cartels to launder billions of dollars across borders and violated U.S. sanctions for years by ...

A pair of reputed drug dealers were among six people killed in a drug cartel attack that also wounded 14 others in a cockfighting arena near Chihuahua City. Masked gunmen with rifles opened fire Saturday night inside the Santa Maria "club gallistico," or cockfighting club, the Chihuahua attorney general's ...

Authorities seized a cache of weapons and drugs including 200,00 pounds of methamphetamine, 138 pounds of heroin and 554 pounds of marijuana. (Source: KSWB/CNN). SAN DIEGO, CA (KSWB/CNN) - The Department of Justice has charged 75 people in a multi-year money laundering investigation.

Open battles between major drug outfits are behind a series of recent killings at the National Autonomous University Of Mexico. Giacomo Tognini · WORLDCRUNCH. 2018-03-09. MEXICO CITY — On February 23rd, two people were shot dead on the historic campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) ...

Most of these cases go unsolved and unresolved, with witnesses too terrified to testify against drug cartel gunmen, known as sicarios. The syndrome is knows as "Impunidad," or getting away with it. Mexico's agonizing 12 year-long drug war, which has claimed more than 200,000 lives with 30,000 more ...

The heavily redacted complaint, written by FBI Special Agent Nicholas Cheviron, alleges that even members of the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel used Phantom's devices, and that the “upper echelon members” of transnational criminal groups have bought Phantom phones. A second source also familiar ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Three Columbus residents are among dozens of people across the country facing charges relating to Sinaloa Drug Cartel drug distribution. In Columbus, three individuals were arrested Wednesday and charged by federal criminal complaint with money laundering, money ...

A new intensity of violence is being felt just a few hours from San Antonio in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Border Sheriff's whose counties are right across the Rio Grande say they are very proactive to keep the violence from spilling over. Although they do admit that some wanted in Mexico may cross over to hide until ...