HOUSTON, TX — Twenty-three members and associates of the Southwest Cholos (SWC) gang are facing trial for their part in allegedly smuggling illegal alien women and girls into the country to force them into sex trafficking. The indictment states that one of the girls was 14 when forced into prostitution.
A 31-year-old asylum seeker who ran a drug trafficking operation out of an asylum home in the German town of Gummersbach has been sentenced to only one year and two months in prison despite the scale of his operation.
A total of 17 alleged drug traffickers were arrested for running a major cross-country drug trafficking operation from Arizona to New York.
A McDonald’s worker in the Bronx allegedly served up more than a side of fries with his Happy Meals.
A Fayette County Sheriff’s Office deputy seized $8 million in liquid methamphetamine during a traffic stop in central Texas on Thursday. Sheriff Keith Korenek’s office seized nearly $20 million in drugs during traffic stops in the past two weeks.
The Marxist terrorist organization FARC–recently relaunched as a political party–has failed to meet the requirements of a peace deal signed in Cuba with the government of Colombia, the U.S. ambassador to that country asserted this week.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to San Diego, California, Wednesday to tout the record-breaking amount of drugs seized in Fiscal Year 2017.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — An anonymous call led to the discovery of more than 6.5 tons of a chemical used to manufacture methamphetamine hidden in the bed of a tractor-trailer. The precursors were headed to a clandestine lab in Nuevo Leon. The seizure revealed a change in drug distribution strategies.
A report in an Arab newspaper cites Hezbollah media outlet al-Manar and unnamed “sources in the Arabic community” as beginning a push to replace embattled dictator Nicolás Maduro with Tareck El Aissami, the alleged drug lord appointed vice president of Venezeula.
An investigation by Spain’s most-circulated newspaper has revealed “a tale of illegal immigration, money laundering, and arms and drug trafficking, as well as tobacco smuggling” which is overwhelming the Mediterranean country.
The Sinaloa Cartel, the world most powerful drug trafficking group, has formed an alliance with Romanian gangsters to flood the UK with illegal and highly addictive drugs.
During a meeting between members of Congress on the worsening crisis in Venezuela, Sen. Marco Rubio has claimed that the country’s National Assembly leader Diosdado Cabello is the new “Pablo Escobar.”
A woman from the border city of Laredo, Texas, was arrested in Austin after authorities found more than $2 million in liquid meth inside her vehicle. The woman was traveling with her 4-year-old daughter.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Six people convicted of drug trafficking and homicide were executed in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the government said, the highest number of executions in a single day this year.
A top supplier for Mexico’s’ Los Zetas and their one-time ally, the Gulf Cartel, was convicted of multiple drug trafficking and laundering conspiracy charges in a U.S. federal court.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega’s death was announced in a tweet from current President Juan Carlos Varela on Tuesday. Noriega, 83, reportedly died around 11:00 P.M. on Monday at Santo Tomas Hospital in Panama City.
Authorities believe that one of the alleged drug traffickers –Raul Enrique Lizarraga Lopez, aka “Maestro” – is a key player in the drug cartel that smuggles narcotics from Mexico into the United States.
Law enforcement authorities announced multiple federal indictments following the completion of an early morning raid. The operation resulted in dozens of arrests of suspected drug and illegal gun dealers.
Tucson Air and Marine Operations Branch (AMO) and Tucson Sector United States Border Patrol (USBP) agents intercepted nine illegal aliens backpacking narcotics into the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials working in the Tucson Sector seized two vehicles, several illegal aliens, and hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of methamphetamine and marijuana.
A federal grand jury returned an indictment against 37 suspected Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) members – including “TMM General” Raul Ramos – charging them with conspiracy, narcotics, and firearm-related crimes.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D) says residents of his city left because of monuments dedicated to Civil War-era icons.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) assisted in the seizure of nearly eight metric tons of cocaine near Latin America – considered one of the largest drug busts in history.
Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized drugs worth more than $7,200,000 on one day at the Port of Nogales in Nogales, Arizona. Nogales shares a border with Sonora, Mexico, and is Arizona’s largest border city.
A Mexican state judge from this city allowed a suspected drug trafficker who is a wanted fugitive in the U.S. to regain his freedom. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency listed the fugitive as one of their “most wanted.”
A Mexican national who was originally arrested for allegedly being in possession of multiple guns and methamphetamine is now also facing charges for being in the U.S. illegally.
Federal authorities arrested close to two dozen Sinaloa Cartel operatives responsible for moving drug shipments from Mexico to various cities throughout the nation. The leader of the cell, who remains a fugitive, is a convicted drug trafficker who was previously deported.
An illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member pleaded guilty in federal court for a plan to traffic cocaine in the U.S. and racketeering conspiracy.
The New York Times’ editorial board published a commentary focused on a Philippine lawyer’s request to the International Criminal Court in the Hague to charge the country’s president, Rodrigo Duterte, with mass murder and crimes against humanity for his crackdown on drug traffickers.
A Border Patrol K9 agent in southwestern Arizona discovered 30 pounds of methamphetamine and other drugs at an inland border checkpoint.
Without clear and detailed government data, activists and critics of government policies must rely on outside surveys, indirect or second-hand data, often decorated by anecdotes.
North Carolina law enforcement officers arrested an illegal immigrant was arrested after he allegedly sold cocaine to an undercover cop.
Federal authorities dismantled a large drug trafficking organization alleged of importing narcotics from Mexico through the southern border.
TEL AVIV – A 267-kilogram shipment of cocaine hidden in bags of coal and bound for Israel was intercepted by Spanish authorities on Tuesday.
HOUSTON, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott announced the expansion of the Texas Anti-Gang Task Force (TAG) and the creation of a technical operations center in response to a sharp increase in rape and murder in the Houston area by violent gangs.
One of the top lawmen in from the Mexican state of Nayarit has been arrested by U.S. authorities in connection with his alleged role as a top cartel figure. The alleged part-time drug lord is believed to have made at least $250 million that federal prosecutors are looking to seize.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge says Congress must pass a pending bill to close the shipping loophole allowing Chinese companies to sell lethal opioids to distributors in U.S. neighborhoods.
The Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS) is expected to adapt to the imminent collapse of its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, in part, by continuing to expand its international criminal enterprise, particularly the drug trade.
A Georgia middle school teacher is accused of drug trafficking after police raided her home and found $6.2 million worth of cocaine and heroin.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro – the man who reduced his people to giving away their children to avoid starvation – promises there will be “surprises” in his relationship with “Comrade Trump,” whom he lauded for offering Venezuela food “at a good price.”
