Drug Trafficking

Nicaraguan To Face U.S. Drug, Terrorism Charges

AP | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Video, William McField-Bent, Nicaraguan Man Extradited to U.S, Terrorism Charges, Colombia Paramilitary, AUC Paramilitary, Latino Voices News

MIAMI -- A Nicaraguan national has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges of drug trafficking and attempting to provide support to a Colombian pa...

Read Whole Story

Happy Two Years In Hell, Jefe de Jefe

Jamie Haase | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Cartels, Mexican Drug Cartels, Arturo Beltran Leyva, Mexico Drug War, Marijuana, Drug War, Arturo Beltran Leyva Shootout, Marijuana Legalization, War on Drugs, Mexico Drug Violence, Crime News

It's been two years since the dramatic killing of drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva. But if removing critical targets proves to accomplish nothing when it comes to interrupting the flow of narcotics -- what will it take for the violence to subside?

Read Post

Doormen At Manhattan Luxury Buildings Involved In Cocaine Smuggling Racket

Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Gambino Crime Family, Drug Smuggling Doormen, NY Crime, Drug Enforcement Administration, Ny News, New York Doormen, Cocaine, New York News

The Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating a cocaine smuggling racket that involves doormen employed at upscale residential buildings in Man...

Read Whole Story

The Carnage in Mexico: Do We Care?

Norm Stamper | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Drug War, Drug Policy, Drug Trafficking, Mexico, War on Drugs, Mexico Drug War, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Cartels, World News

American drug policy, and our gutless, unreasoned refusal to change it, has caused the epic violence south of the border.

Read Post

Ex-Cocaine Kinigpin 'Freeway' Rick Ross Aims To Make Amends After Prison

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Ricky Donnell Ross, Drug Trafficking, Video, Cocaine Sentencing, Rick Ross, Drug Kingpin Rick Ross, Crack Cocaine, Fbi, Drugs, Drug Dealers, Rapper, Dea, Freeway Rick Ross, Los Angeles, Ricky Ross, Black Voices News

Nearly every night that "Freeway" Rick Ross spent in prison, the same nightmare filled his head: He and his crew are sitting around a table piled h...

Read Whole Story

Latin American Leaders Blast U.S. Drug Policies, Call For Decriminalization

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Video, Drugs, War on Drugs, Latin America, Drug War, Mexico Drug Wars, Latino Voices News

This week, 11 Latin American leaders convened in Mexico City to make a formal statement calling for the U.S. to revise its current drug policies and c...

Read Whole Story

Man Dies After Eating Cocaine Hidden In Brother's Butt

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Video, Brother Eats Cocaine From Mans Butt, Man Dies After Eating Cocaine, South Carolina Crime, Man Eats Cocaine Brothers Butt, Wayne Mitchell, Dumb Criminals, Man Eating Cocaine Dies, Cocaine, Deangelo Mitchell, Crime News

A South Carolina man died in the backseat of a patrol car after ingesting an ounce of cocaine that had been hidden in his brother's buttocks, accordin...

Read Whole Story

Drug Cash Seizures Grow In Puerto Rico

AP | By BEN FOX | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Puerto Rico, Drug Cash Seizure, Drug Money, Drug Cash, Latino Politics, San Juan, Latino Voices News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Law enforcement agencies have seized sharply increased amounts of suspicious cash in Puerto Rico over the past year, an appar...

Read Whole Story

Mexico's Drug War: Cartels Profit From U.S. Guns And Money-Laundering Help

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Video, Mexico Drug War, Eric Holder Attorney General, Drugs, Fast and Furious, War on Drugs, Arms Trafficking, Eric Holder, Latino Voices News

Latin American leaders have long maintained that the United States' voracious appetite for illicit drugs weakens their efforts to stem the narcotics t...

Read Whole Story

Mexico Seizes 226 Tons Of Chemical Used In Meth

AP | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Meth, Drug Trafficking, Puerto Quetzal, Video, Mexico Chemicals Meth, Mexico Drug, Mexico, Mexico Meth, Guatemala, Lazaro Cardenas, World News

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities say they have seized 226 tons (205 metric tons) of a chemical used in synthetic drugs in a Pacific coast port. Mex...

Read Whole Story

Drug Violence In Mexico Touches Both Sides Of The Border

HuffingtonPost.com | Aurelia Fierros | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Immigration, Drugs, Mexico Drug Violence, Video, Latino Voices News

For Sara Muniz Moran, a 63-year-old nurse from Tucson, Arizona, the epidemic of violence across the border in Mexico has touched home. In late Augu...

Read Whole Story

Former Guatemalan President Part Of Infamous Extradition Fraternity

Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Human Rights, Latino Politics, Manuel Noriego, Extradition, Alfonso Portillo, Simon Trinidad, Jorge 40, Caravan of Dreams, Rodriguez Orejuela, Augusto Pinochet, Latino Voices News

When the former president of Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo, gets extradited he will join an infamous fraternity of Latin American figures whisked away f...

Read Whole Story

Cops Find $500,000 Of Cocaine Stuffed Into Horse Saddle

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Horse Saddle, Video, Cocaine in a Horse Saddle, Cocaine Bust, Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia Crime, DeKalb County, Cocaine, Weird George, Crime News

Giddy Up. Police in Dekalb County, Ga., arrested a pair of alleged drug traffickers on Tuesday after a man retrieved a package containing a horse s...

Read Whole Story

Feds: Mexican Drug Cartel Kingpin Plotted Attack Against U.S.

AP | By KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Vicente Zambada Trial, Drug Trafficking, Mexican Drug Cartel, Drug Cartels, Vicente Zambada Charged, Vicente Zambada Case, Vicente Zambada, Chicago News

CHICAGO -- The leaders of a powerful Mexican cartel, frustrated that U.S. law enforcement was interfering with their lucrative drug business, plotted ...

Read Whole Story

Where 'Narco Beauty' Reins

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Cultura, Video, Colombiamoda, Colombia, Pablo Escobar, Colombia Fashion Week, Vice Colombian Fashion Week, Narco Beauty, Fashion, Fashion Week, Colombian Beauty, Latino Voices News

High fashion in the land of Pablo Escobar has a distinctly Latin flavor, a surreal place where the narco-aesthetic is proudly flaunted with "mountains...

Read Whole Story

Brazilian Cameraman Shot To Death During Police Operation

AP | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Gelson Domingos, Bandeirantes, Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, Bandeirantes Cameraman Killed, Gelson Domingos Killed, Cameraman Killed, Bandeirantes Cameraman, World News

SAO PAULO -- A Brazilian television network says one of its cameramen has been shot to death during a police operation against drug traffickers in a R...

Read Whole Story

Guatemala: Drug Trafficking and Violence (AUDIO)

Kimberly Abbott | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Mexico, Drugs, Guatemala, War on Drugs, Guatemala Violence, Colombia, World News

Positioned at the midpoint between narcotics producers in South America and U.S. consumers, Guatemala has become a major hub for overland drug trafficking.

Read Post

Cops Bust 87-Year-Old With 228 Pounds Of Cocaine

Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Video, Leo Earl Sharp Arrested, 87-Year-Old Caught With Cocaine, Drugs, Dumb Criminals, Leo Earl Sharp Drugs, Leo Earl Sharp, Cocaine, Weird News News

Medicare probably didn't cover this one. Michigan police arrested an 87-year-old man on Friday after he told authorities that he was forced "at gun...

Read Whole Story

U.S., Mexico Share Responsibility In Drug War, General Says

AP | By DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Mexican Drug Trafficking, US Northern Command, Gen. Charles H Jacoby Jr, Gen. Charles Jacoby Jr, Drug War, Drug War Predator Drones, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado News, Drug Traffic in US From Mexico, Predator Drones, Video, Denver News

By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- The U.S. shares responsibility with Mexico for confronting the danger posed by i...

Read Whole Story

Jamaican Prime Minister To Resign, Skirt Possible Rebellion

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Jamaica, Drug Trafficking, Jamaican Prime Minister, Jamaica Prime Minister Resignation, Jamaica Prime Minister, Jamaica Drug Trafficking, Bruce Golding, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, Bruce Golding Resign, Prime Minister Jamaica Resign, US Jamaica Relations, World News

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica's governing party announced Sunday that Prime Minister Bruce Golding will step down as leader in the coming weeks, p...

Read Whole Story

Central American Leaders Warn Of Drug Trafficking Threat At UN

www.un.org | Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: El Salvador, Drug Trafficking, United Nations General Assembly, Central America, Costa Rica, Latino Voices News

Costa Rica and El Salvador, two countries highly affected by drug-related violence in recent years, have urged the United Nations to help fight drug c...

Read Whole Story

Mother Paid To Have 'Hex' Placed On Son's Prosecutors, Feds Say

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Video, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Voodo, Victor Bourne, Maria Alleyne, Hex, Crime News

The mother of an alleged drug trafficker tried to protect her son from the law by traveling to Africa to commission a shaman to place a 'hex' on the t...

Read Whole Story

Cocaine Components In The Crosshairs

Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Cocaine Trafficking, Bogota Cocaine, Colombia, Central America, Colombia Cocaine, Drugs, Honduras Cocaine, War on Drugs, Dea, Narcotics, Cocaine, World News

By John Otis, GlobalPost BOGOTA, Colombia — To make cocaine you need more than just coca leaves, the raw material for the narcotic. You als...

Read Whole Story

Prosecutors Deny Immunity Deal With Drug Lord's Son

AP | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Vicente Zambada Immunity, Kingpin Vicente Zambada, Mexico, Sinaloa Cartel Trafficking, Vicente Zambada, Sinaloa Cartel, Mexico Drug Trafficking, World News

CHICAGO -- U.S. prosecutors on Friday asked a judge not to throw out drug trafficking conspiracy charges against a top lieutenant in one of Mexico's l...

Read Whole Story

Suburban Police Intercept 1,000 Pounds Of Pot

Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Bust, Wheeling, California, Marijuana, Crime, John Teevans, Steven Snyder, Wheeling Police, Pot, Dea, Drug Arrest, Chicago News

Police acting on a tip were waiting at a freight yard in suburban Wheeling Wednesday when a California man arrived to pick up 1,000 pounds of marijuan...

Read Whole Story