”drug traffickers” News

Drug raids in Puerto Rico target rural areas

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Federal agents arrested 59 alleged members of a drug trafficking ring Monday in coordinated raids in small-town Puerto Rico , where some housing projects are under siege by gangsters.
08 27 2008 4:57AM (...more)

Drugs in rugs

BEIJING (Reuters) - Drug traffickers in China's far west are smuggling heroin into the country woven into carpets imported from Afghanistan and Pakistan , state media said on Tuesday.
06 25 2008 8:23AM (...more)

China pulls rug from under flying carpet drug smugglers

BEIJING (Reuters) - Drug traffickers in China's far west are smuggling heroin into the country woven into carpets imported from Afghanistan and Pakistan , state media said on Tuesday. Customs officials in Xinjiang , which borders both countries, have seized more than 30 carpets containing some 50 kg (110 lb) of heroin in the last several months, the official China Daily said.
06 25 2008 1:01AM (...more)

Ex-Mexican police chief accusing of helping cartel

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's former acting federal police chief has been accused of collaborating with a notorious cartel and stealing money from a mansion during a raid to bust a drug
12 8 2008 12:28PM (...more)

Mexican gangs target outspoken priests in drug war

JACUME, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican drug traffickers fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics' untouchable aura and breaking honor codes in the
07 3 2009 4:01PM (...more)

Mexican police find 24 bodies; drug gang suspected

SAN PEDRO ATLAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican police found 24 bodies dumped outside a small town near the capital on Friday in one of the most grisly discoveries yet in a rash of recent drug gang killings.
09 13 2008 9:27PM (...more)

Top Afghan anti-drugs judge murdered in Kabul

KABUL (AFP) - A top judge in Afghanistan's counternarcotics court, working to bring to justice key players in the world's biggest opium-producing country, was gunned down in Kabul Thursday, his office said.
09 5 2008 6:58PM (...more)

Congress OKs money to fight drugs in Mexico

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved $465 million to help Mexico and Central American countries battle drug cartels , clearing the measure for President George W. Bush to sign into law.
06 27 2008 10:16PM (...more)

UN: Latin America needs help vs. drug traffickers

UNITED NATIONS – Central American nations need urgent international help to confront the increasingly dangerous presence of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels , the head of a U.N.-backed commission investigating 02 28 2009 3:07AM (...more)

TV, guns, fridges - prisoner had it all

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - With a plasma TV , a DVD player ,$172,000 in cash, gym equipment, two refrigerators and a coupleof guns, Genilson Lino da Silva had everything he needed for aluxurious life -- in his Brazilian prison cell.
06 5 2008 7:24AM (...more)