Mexican officials arrested four members of the Sinaloa cartel in the southern part of this border state. The four are charged with attempting to move drugs for street level distribution.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared war against rising violent crime and directed federal prosecutors to begin targeting major criminals and use every tool at their disposal to remove them from communities.
Members of the Los Zetas Cartel managed to establish a series of large scale marijuana plantations in east Texas. Authorities have been able to locate 15 marijuana plantations and seize 77,000 plants with an estimated worth of more than $101 million.
MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested 24 members of a Colombian drug ring seeking to establish a network for the wholesale distribution of cocaine.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives claims an employee with Baltimore’s Safe Streets violence intervention program is tied to “a drug trafficking organization” associated with numerous shootings in the city.
Al-Arabiya reports that smugglers have “resorted to some desperate measures” to slip drugs and alcohol into Saudi Arabia.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials told Congress they need more equipment, cutter fleets, and manpower to fight transnational drug cartels from Mexico, Central and South America, and Europe. Cartels have almost unlimited funds to traffic drugs into the country, they say.
Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro demanded an official, public apology from the United States Department of the Treasury after its announcement of a sanction on Vice President Tareck el Aissami, whom the Treasury accused of having known ties to a variety of terrorist and drug trafficking outfits.
Eleven illegal aliens were found in a stash house in Eagle Pass and have been arrested. Border Patrol officials say there is evidence they had recently crossed the Rio Grande River.
A man convicted on drug trafficking charges is back in federal court after former president Barack Obama commuted his life sentence.
Texas House leadership wasted no time in calling on the federal government to reimburse the State for the costs–to the tune of $2.8 billion–incurred as a result of the Obama Administration’s failure or refusal to secure the Texas-Mexico Border.
Brayan Bremer, one of over hundreds of inmates who escaped from two prisons in western Brazil over New Year’s Eve, is taunting police with selfies apparently taken from deep within the Amazon rainforest which surfaced on Facebook throughout the week.
For the second time this week, inmates at a western Brazilian prison staged a bloody riot, leaving 33 dead — among them, 30 beheaded and multiple bodies with hearts torn out.
More than 70 criminal, illegal aliens living in the United States have been arrested by federal immigration authorities following an interstate roundup.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) found deaths from opioid and prescription drug overdoses hit 33,091 in 2015.
A Mexican national has been sentenced to 10 years for trafficking heroin into the country following an investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Legislation that would slash mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers has little chance of passing in the final two months of President Obama’s term, and virtually no chance of becoming law under a President Donald Trump.
A man living in El Paso has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges where he helped smuggle marijuana for the Velasco Criminal Enterprise (VCE), a family-run operation out of Texas.
An alleged drug trafficker was indicted on five counts for possessing nearly 80 pounds of cocaine and illegal possession of firearms, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio announced.
Outgoing President Obama has shortened the prison sentences of another 79 drug traffickers, many of whom were also convicted on weapons charges or had prior drug convictions.
Investigators in the Austrian cities of Graz and Vienna have made a series of arrests of migrants who they have caught carrying and attempting to sell over €300,000 worth of street drugs.
Law enforcement officials in Fayette County, Texas, made a million dollar drug bust after a traffic stop on Interstate 10 between San Antonio and Houston.
Donald Trump’s campaign published its plan to combat the nation’s epidemic of drug-overdose deaths, saying President Trump would control immigration, correct “misguided” regulations that inflame addiction problems, and get more help for drug addicts.
A Colombian national pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine by illegally trafficking the drug into the U.S. through maritime shipments.
A Roswell, New Mexico man pleaded guilty in a federal court Wednesday to conspiracy and drug trafficking charges. The charges were part of a conspiracy that landed 41 people in jail for their roles in trafficking drugs in an area reported to be under the control of the Juarez drug cartel.
An alleged illegal immigrant living in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, was arrested by police for allegedly attempting to sell over $2,000 worth of cocaine. The arrest followed a months-long investigation into the reported illegal drug activity.
A Washington Post reporter misconstrued Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s remarks on heroin trafficking and the deadly overdose epidemic.
A Mexican national who crossed the US-Mexico border into Texas is accused of trafficking five kilos of cocaine across three states before reaching her intended destination in Pensacola, Florida.
Italian anti-drug units, over a 32-month period, intercepted 20 enormous freighters used to traffic a collective 280 tons of hashish valued at about $3.2 billion through territory near Libya believed to be controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports The New York Times (NYT).
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte admitted Monday that he had skipped important meetings at the recent Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) summit because President Barack Obama would be there, and “I do not like the Americans.”
55-year-old mother Basira Binuyo, a pilgrim on the way to the mandatory Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca known as hajj, was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, after testing positive for ingesting drugs for trafficking.
A tweeted message from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan suggested Sunday that he’s still supporting stalled legislation that would release many convicts from federal prison.
The open-borders crowd has enlisted the help of the greens to stop a potential President Donald Trump’s wall. The title of a “news” article in the British science journal Nature says it all: “Trump’s border-wall pledge threatens delicate desert ecosystems.”
Border Patrol Agents stopped millions of dollars’ worth of drugs from Mexico to the streets of California last week.
A Texas deputy sheriff and his K-9 partner took another $6 million worth of methamphetamine off the streets following a traffic stop Friday night. This deputy from Fayette County in central Texas has seized nearly $16 million in drugs over the past two months.
Anti-narcotics and intelligence officials from India have accused “overlapping groups” of drug smugglers, criminals, and jihadists from neighboring Pakistan of trafficking “anti-India Muslim extremists, counterfeit currency and weapons” into their country, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Two mayors have publicly surrendered and two others begged for private meetings with President Rodrigo Duterte to absolve themselves of alleged ties to drug crime, as the Philippines continues Duterte’s promised assault on drug traffickers and drug addicts who refuse treatment.
Brazilian authorities have announced the arrest of Lebanese Hezbollah member Fadi Hassan Nahba, wanted by Interpol for drug trafficking since 2013. Authorities admitted they did not know he was working with the jihadi terror group until he personally told them after his arrest this week.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A drug used to sedate elephants and other large animals, 100 times as potent as the fentanyl already escalating the country’s heroin troubles, is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states, where authorities say they’ve found it mixed with or passed off as heroin.
BALTIMORE (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped all remaining charges against the three Baltimore police officers who were still awaiting trial in Freddie Gray’ death, blaming police for a biased investigation that failed to produce a single conviction.
