An estimated 60,000 Philippine citizens battling drug addiction have turned themselves in to police or rehabilitation centers since President Rodrigo Duterte, who won election on an anti-drug campaign, took office in May.
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has warned imprisoned Chinese drug lords — and those still at large who have since left the Philippines — not to continue to disturb the peace in his nation, warning them that, should they remain active in the drug trade, “you will die.”
A Spanish-speaking Facebook group used to alert its 29,753 members about law enforcement checkpoints has been taken down after exposure by Breitbart Texas.
A Spanish-speaking Facebook group is being used to alert 29,753 members of law enforcement checkpoints. Posts on the page claims it is alerting those “who don’t have a driver license and [to] report accidents” but it could also be used to avoid law enforcement for any criminal activity, including human, drug, and sex trafficking.
A federal grand jury in eastern Tennessee returned an 80-count indictment in May against 27 people for possession of and conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine. Six of those people were also charged with possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking offenses.
Three gunmen stormed a Dallas, Texas, home, restrained a woman and took a child at gunpoint. In response, Dallas Police have issued an Amber and are asking for the public’s help in locating the 10-year-old boy taken by the gunmen. Authorities are working to locate 10-year-old Nicholas Fierros Jr. and three unidentified black men who took at gunpoint him from a residence, said Deputy Dallas Police Chief Malik Aziz in during an online streamed news conference.
Why, you might ask, are these liberals so anxious to turn violent criminals free? What is to be gained, you might wonder, by having these felons – many of whom will again be trafficking in drugs and committing violent crimes in the process – wandering around our cities, contributing to the heroin epidemic, and leaving thousands of victims in their wake?
Federal authorities have set their sights on the wife of a fugitive Mexican drug lord wanted for the kidnapping and murder of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act will pose a serious threat to public safety — and tens of thousands of federal inmates are already being released on previous sentencing reduction measures, said Republican Louisiana Sen. David Vitter on Wednesday. “The
BENNETT: The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act now before Congress is based on a lie — that drug dealing is not a violent crime. Americans have been told this lie for years even as we witness the violence and death caused by drug dealers in our communities. Now, this lie is propelling legislation through Congress that will destroy more lives.
Border Patrol agents working in Arizona and California report that drug trafficking by illegal aliens has been very heavy in the first days before May. Yuma Sector agents arrested 43 illegal aliens and seized almost a ton of marijuana valued at approximately $1 million. Wellton Station Border Patrol agents arrested 58 illegal aliens and seized 1,225 pounds of marijuana. Two of these illegal aliens had been deported.
A drug, which is purportedly ten thousand times more powerful than morphine, has descended into the United States from drug pushers in Canada, authorities say.
On Thursday, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions denounced the Obama-backed Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (SRCA) pushed by Republican Speaker Paul Ryan in the House, saying its amendments did nothing to correct the fundamental dangers the bill posed by massive amounts of drug traffickers, a great many of whom are illegal aliens from Third World nations like Mexico.
Mexican authorities have discovered two clandestine airstrip near the Texas border that were being used by Mexican cartel smugglers to move large quantities of drugs. The airstrips were found in a remote area known as the Sierra de Acuna.
During a routine patrol on Thursday morning, an El Centro Border Patrol agent discovered a tunnel spanning the U.S.-Mexico southern border.
The Department of the Treasury has frozen the U.S.-based assets of the Mexican Laredo Drug Trafficking Organization, a major trafficker of heroin to the U.S.
A father and son were arrested early Tuesday morning in Houston on drug trafficking charges. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) raided the home in northwest Harris County as part of a search warrant execution.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is pushing back against the planned bipartisan rollback of jail sentencing that will put violent drug offenders back out on the streets.
The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, and the leadership of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have confirmed that the two will not sign a peace deal on March 23 that would have allowed FARC leaders to return to Colombia as previously planned.
One of Mexico’s top drug traffickers, who used to be a close associate of famed capo Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman before turning into his bitter rival, has pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges in a U.S. federal courtroom.
A former Colombian drug lord who has been freed after serving an 18-year sentence in the U.S. prison system has accused Diosdado Cabello, a senior official in Venezuela’s socialist government, of leading a drug cartel that has sold cocaine to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
Pope Francis I celebrated Mass on the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexican border, made the sign of the cross, and blessed the people gathered there in Ciudad Juarez. He then called for governments and others to have “open hearts” to the “tragedy that is forced migration.”
A Vatican Radio message on the fourth day of Pope Francis’ trip to Mexico, acknowledges the “escalating number of ‘desparacidos’” in the country but does not mention their manner of death, and the network of ovens operated in the state of Coahuila.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents recently seized 400 packages of methamphetamine worth $1.1 million at the Arizona-Mexico border—the largest in the history of the Nogales port of entry. Authorities are concerned this shipment was a signal from one of two large Mexican drug cartels that they are not fading from the drug smuggling scene any time soon.
Recently re-captured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán is willing to accept extradition to the U.S. and plead guilty to drug trafficking charges. However, he will only do so if that plea keeps him out of a high-security prison.
The governor of Peru’s Tumbes province, Ricardo Flores Dioses, kicked off a campaign to distribute condoms and insect repellents to prevent the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in his jurisdiction located in the northern part of the country.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Mexican Federal Highway cops seized more than 1821 pound of cocaine that had been hidden in a tractor trailer that was traveling form Veracruz to the industrial hub of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and eventually to the Unites Stated.
After decades of a steadily falling murder rate, the number of Americans killed in 2015 jumped 16 percent. But despite this hefty increase, House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP leadership seem headed toward joining President Obama to push a “reform” that would feature reductions in federal criminal sentences.
MCALLEN, Texas — An officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is facing federal bribery and computer misuse charges following his Thursday morning arrest.
As half a dozen legal districts compete for who will get to try notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán after his extradition to the U.S., the City of Miami, Florida has emerged as a top contender.
A federal jury in New Orleans, Louisiana, convicted a former Houston police officer on January 15 of charges of supplying a Mexican drug cartel with high-powered weapons and other equipment that helped them smuggle massive amounts of cocaine into Louisiana other communities across the country.
Conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori is leading Peru’s presidential election with 32 percent of the vote, according to the latest national polls, signaling a potential shift rightward for yet another South American nation.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) negotiators have dismissed a March deadline for peace talks with the Colombian government as “naive,” as the terrorist organization demands more concessions from a government looking to end terrorist violence through dialogue.
Mexican drug smugglers tried to disguise a ton of marijuana as fake carrots inside a freight shipment. The drugs were shaped into small long packages that were orange colored as to disguise them with the real carrots.
Only days after his client’s capture and the highly controversial interview of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán by actor Sean Penn, Guzmán’s lawyer is calling the actor’s retelling of El Chapo’s drug trafficking claims “a lie” and “absurd speculation.”
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has announced the capture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.
In response to an increase in the use of local roads by drug traffickers, the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office has formed a new task force in an attempt to deter these incursions.
Several years after being arrested in Mexico, a top drug cartel operative has agreed to change his plea to guilty in response to U.S. drug trafficking charges. His potential prison sentence is yet to be determined.
Authorities continue to search for multiple gunmen in connection with a home invasion turned drug shootout that killed two men last month near this border city.
A federal judge recently sentenced the last two of 34 Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang members to prison for their roles in a methamphetamine drug distribution network. The FBI claimed it marked the end of the gang’s foothold in Central Texas.
