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Monday, November 3, 2008
‘El Chapo’ has left the building
World |
November 3, 2008
He appears in a restaurant, picks up everyone’s tab, then vanishes with his many guards. Read more
Thursday, October 30, 2008
41 cartel suspects indicted
National |
October 30, 2008
Federal authorities in Atlanta announced grand jury indictments Wednesday against 41 people allegedly connected to violent Mexican drug cartels, including a former deputy sheriff from Texas stopped with nearly $1 million in cash hidden in his pickup on a Georgia highway. Read more
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Imperial Valley drug ring arrests
California | Local |
October 9, 2008
Federal authorities Wednesday announced indictments against the alleged leaders of six drug distribution rings charged with transporting cocaine and methamphetamine for one of Mexico’s largest drug cartels. Read more
Monday, October 6, 2008
A Tijuana blood bath
World |
October 6, 2008
The birthplace of one of Mexico’s most infamous drug cartels looks more and more like its graveyard. Read more
Sunday, December 16, 2007
World in Brief | ITALY - Naples crime boss is captured
World |
December 16, 2007
A fugitive Naples crime boss who built one of the most dangerous
extortion and drug trafficking cartels has been captured, Italian
authorities said. Read more
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Peasants for the kingpins
World |
December 6, 2007
Jose alan montoya died far from the beloved roosters he raised on
his patio, far from the tortilla shop his mother ran, far from the
people who still weep for a man gunned down on a marijuana plantation
in the mountains of Michoacan. Read more
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Alleged member of vast Mexican drug cartel returned to L.A.
California | Local |
October 18, 2007
Five years after his indictment by a federal grand jury, an
alleged drug lord in Mexico was returned to Los Angeles on Wednesday
to face charges that he was part of a vast cartel that supplied
hundreds of pounds of cocaine each year to California, Alaska and
other states. Read more
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Cocaine supply falls, officials say
California | Local |
October 3, 2007
SAN DIEGO – Mexico’s crackdown on drug cartels and U.S.
authorities’ seizures at sea have helped to sharply reduce the
availability of cocaine in 37 American cities, according to a report
released Tuesday by federal anti-narcotics officials. Read more
Thursday, August 30, 2007
World in Brief / MEXICO - Cartel suspect’s arrest reported
World |
August 30, 2007
A suspected high-ranking Gulf drug cartel member wanted in Texas
for allegedly threatening to kill U.S. federal agents is believed to
be among eight men arrested in a raid on a steak house in Mexico
City, government news agency Notimex said. Read more
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Border violence pushes north
National |
August 19, 2007
Violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border, which has long plagued
the scrubby, often desolate stretch, is increasingly spilling
northward into the cities of the American Southwest. Read more
Sunday, May 20, 2007
A cartel army’s war within
World |
May 20, 2007
The two thoroughbreds sprinted down a country track, a few million
dollars in the bettors’ kitty and an old-fashioned camera waiting at
the finish line. Read more
Monday, April 2, 2007
Panama bust reveals trafficking’s slow lane
World |
April 2, 2007
Call them “the not ready for prime time traffickers.” Read more
Saturday, February 24, 2007
The man who took down Cali
World |
February 24, 2007
THE official end of the notorious Cali cocaine cartel came late last
year here with little more commotion than the rap of a judge’s gavel. Read more
Friday, February 9, 2007
Reputed cartel chief may be sent to U.S.
World |
February 9, 2007
Reputed drug kingpin Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante was deported
Thursday from Cuba to Colombia, which plans to extradite him to the
United States to face trafficking and other charges, officials said. Read more
Tuesday, July 5, 2005
Mexico Says Suspect Isn’t Drug Kingpin
World |
July 5, 2005
Mexican authorities said Monday that they thought they had arrested
the leader of the Juarez drug cartel, but later said tests showed it
was a case of mistaken identity. Read more
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Violence in Mexico Blamed on Drug Cartel Rivalries
World |
May 28, 2005
Turf wars among drug gangs whose leaders were imprisoned in a
crackdown are responsible for a wave of violence in northern Mexico,
the country’s new attorney general said Friday. Read more
Friday, March 25, 2005
4 Alleged Hit Men Held; Use of Acid Tubs Cited
World |
March 25, 2005
Mexican police said they had arrested four drug cartel hit men in
Tijuana who used tubs filled with acid to dissolve their victims’ remains. Read more
Sunday, January 30, 2005
U.S. Softens Mexico Travel Alert
World |
January 30, 2005
The United States and Mexico sought to defuse their spat over a U.S.
alert about drug-gang violence along the border, issuing a joint
statement Saturday in which Washington said its announcement was not
meant to keep Americans from traveling south of the border. Read more
Friday, January 14, 2005
Mexican Official Says Tijuana, Gulf Cartels Have United
World |
January 14, 2005
Once Mexico’s deadliest drug trafficker, the weakened Arellano Felix
cartel of Tijuana has merged with another gang in a desperate bid for
survival, the country’s narcotics prosecutor said Thursday. Read more
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Colombia Cartel Suspect Is Seized
World |
December 29, 2004
Police captured a reputed leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel
Tuesday in a U.S.-backed effort to dismantle the gang. Read more
