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Colombian Drug Operative Who Faked Own Death in 2010 Arrested During his Caribbean Wedding Party
July 10, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A man wanted by Colombian authorities was arrested at a really inconvenient time – during his week-long wedding reception. Last week, Camilo “Fritanga” Torres was celebrating his wedding in the Car continue reading »
Airport Shooting in Mexico Began Over Drug Dispute
July 7, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A June 25 shootout at Mexico City's capital's airport that left three police officers dead began with an argument among cops over a packet of cocaine, a leading Mexican newspaper said Friday. continue reading »
Mexico Looking into Claims of Airport Director’s Link to Drug Cartels
June 28, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Mexican government has asked the United States for information about the alleged links between the director of the Mexico City airport and drug traffickers, Attorney General Marisela Morales said. continue reading »
Mexico’s War on Drugs Looking For Greater International Cooperation
June 27, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Mexico wants to expand international cooperation in the war on drugs to create "new strategies and lines of action," Mexican Deputy Attorney General for Judicial and International Affairs Alejandro Ramos told Efe. continue reading »
Man Arrested This Week Not Son of Mexico’s Most Wanted “El Chapo”
June 23, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Mexican authorities confirmed that a man arrested earlier this week and initially reported to be the son of fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman is in fact another individual. continue reading »
Drug Traffickers Escape Mexican Prison with Help from Gunmen
June 23, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A police officer was killed Thursday when gunmen attacked a lockup in the western Mexican state of Michoacan and freed two suspected drug traffickers, officials said. continue reading »
Corruption, Drug and Gun Crime, Tax Evasion Caused Mexico to Lose $872 Billion in 4 Decades
June 20, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Between 1970 and 2010, Mexico reportedly lost $872 billion, according to a report from the Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington, DC-based research and advocacy organization. continue reading »
U.S. Customs Seizes $7.3 Million Worth of Cocaine
June 17, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
On May 29, Customs and Border Protection officers at the Miami Seaport discovered approximately 459 pounds of cocaine hidden in a container at the Port of Miami. While inspecting containers at the Miami seaport CBP officers identified suspect suspicious boxes in a container which a CBP canine subsequently alerted to for the presence of narcotics. continue reading »
Over 50 Suspected Zetas Arrested in Mexico
June 14, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Police arrested 52 suspected employees of the notoriously violent Los Zetas drug cartel in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, officials said Wednesday. continue reading »
Sinaloa Cartel Member Facing Possible U.S. Extradition
June 14, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A Guatemalan court has given the United States 40 working days to present evidence against Walter Alirio Montejo, a Guatemalan suspected of belonging to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and the subject of a U.S. extradition request, judicial officials said. continue reading »
LATINO BLOTTER: Officer Pulls Over Tour Bus en Route to Chicago, Finds $1 M Worth of Heroin, Cocaine
June 13, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Sheriff’s deputies in Texas pulled over a commercial bus upon noticing a defective tail light over the weekend, but what started as a traffic stop wound up becoming million-dollar drug bust. continue reading »
Mexican Court Overturns Ruling, “Queen of the Pacific” Will be Extradited to the U.S.
June 9, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A Mexican federal court ruled that a reputed drug trafficker known as the "Queen of the Pacific" can be extradited to the United States. The judges overturned a January ruling blocking the handover of Sandra Avila Beltran on grounds that U.S. authorities were seeking to try her on the same charges as those she had already been acquitted of in Mexico. continue reading »
Crossing into the U.S. from Mexico? You Could be Smuggling in Drugs Underneath Your Car
May 25, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Authorities say Mexican drug smugglers are using unsuspecting drivers to move the drugs for them. Using strong magnets taped to the drugs to be transported, drug smugglers attach the drugs to the unde continue reading »
UN Urges Central America to Fight Organized Crime in the Region
May 20, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Senior United Nations officials drew the world’s attention to threats posed by transnational organized crime and drug trafficking in Central America and called for concerted global efforts to combat the scourge, which they said is spreading to other continents. continue reading »
Guatemalan Prosecutors and Police Arrested For Facilitating Drug Smuggling
May 19, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Three Guatemalan prosecutors and four police officers were arrested Friday on suspicion of ties to drug trafficking, the country's interior minister said. continue reading »
La Familia Narco Traffickers Plead Guilty to Operating in U.S.
May 19, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill; Steven E. Ibison, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Tampa Field Office; and Manatee County Sheriff Brad Steube announce today that two brothers, Victor Peralta-Saucedo (25) and Guillermo Peralta-Saucedo (32) pled guilty to drug and money laundering charges. Both brothers are Mexican nationals residing in the United States illegally. Prior to their arrest, they lived in Bradenton. continue reading »
8 Arrested In Mexico May Be Linked To the Massacre of 49 People
May 18, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Mexican army soldiers detained eight purported members of the Gulf drug cartel during an operation in the small northeastern town of China, the Defense Secretariat said. continue reading »
$1.3M Found On Board Mexican Plane that Crashed in Ecuador
May 16, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The small Mexican-registered plane that crashed last weekend in Ecuador was carrying $1.3 million, police said. Santiago Alfonso Lopez Monzon, 22, and Cruz Alfredo Solis Lopez, 36, who had Mexican documents, died in Sunday's accident. continue reading »
Shootout Between Military and Armed Assailants in Northwestern Mexico Leaves 5 Dead
May 12, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Five people were killed in a clash with army soldiers and state police on a highway in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, officials said. continue reading »
80 Tons of Drug Precursors Confiscated by Guatemalan Police
May 11, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
At least 80 tons of drug precursors were seized in two separate operations in Guatemala and one person was arrested, the National Civilian Police, or PNC, said. continue reading »
