One of Mexico’s most-wanted drug trafficking suspects was captured Saturday night at his Tijuana home after a fierce shootout with authorities, providing some good news amid the border city’s raging drug war.
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The schoolchildren bounded up the rickety steps and followed the path of shattered glass into the two-story house on Laguna Salada Street.
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Two former
U.S. Border Patrol agents who fled the country while under investigation for alleged immigrant smuggling have been arrested in Tijuana after a two-year manhunt, federal authorities announced Monday.
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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.
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The birthplace of one of Mexico’s most infamous drug cartels looks more and more like its graveyard.
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Leonor Merino said she was shocked enough Monday to find that what she thought was a pile of rags was a dozen bodies.
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As the death toll mounted after two separate riots at a prison here, Baja California authorities came under fierce criticism Thursday for allegedly brutal tactics used by police on inmates and the treatment of inmates’ relatives who had gathered outside the prison.At least 23 inmates died and dozens were injured in uprisings at La Mesa State Penitentiary on Sunday and Wednesday, most after state and federal police stormed the prison grounds firing heavy weapons, according to police officials and witnes
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A troubled state prison in Tijuana erupted in violence for the second time in four days Wednesday as police stormed the grounds while protesting crowds on the outside pelted authorities with rocks and blocked ambulances leaving the facility.
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Eight men arrested on suspicion of constructing a drug tunnel have been formally charged with racketeering and smuggling, Mexican state and federal authorities say.
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A riot at Tijuana’s notorious La Mesa State Penitentiary has left three inmates dead and 25 people injured as prisoners threw rocks and set fires to protest alleged police brutality, according to Baja California state authorities.
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