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El Chapo's wife was absent from his trial for the first time since it started...
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, missed the accused Mexican drug lord's trial in Brooklyn on Monday.Until Monday, Aispuro had attended every day of Guzman's federal trial.Guzman...
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Army war hero pleads guilty to trying to smuggle over $1 million of cocaine...
An Army Special Forces veteran pleaded guilty to two drug trafficking conspiracy counts, admitting he attempted to smuggle nearly 90 pounds of cocaine from Colombia. Master Sgt. Daniel Gould was...
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A second Army Green Beret has pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to...
A second Army Special Forces soldier pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to traffic cocaine after authorities found nearly 90 pounds of the narcotic in gutted punching bags.Sgt. 1st Class...
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El Chapo's mistress detailed how the drug lord fled Mexican Marines through a...
Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López, 29, testified against Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on Thursday as part of his federal trial.The former legislator in Mexico told the court about a time she and Guzman...
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10 of the most shocking twists and turns of El Chapo's drug-trafficking...
Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is on trial in Brooklyn, charged with 17 counts of having links to drug trafficking in the US and Mexico. The trial started in November 2018, and prosecutors...
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A man allegedly shipped a package with more than a pound of meth to Apple’s...
Richard Dean Desain, a 32-year-old from Los Angeles, was arrested on July 9, 2018, after he allegedly tried to pick up a package of crystal methamphetamine that had arrived at Apple’s Grand Central...
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The US has issued a security alert for a major border city in Mexico after a...
The US consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, has issued a warning about the area to US citizens.The alert came a day after a series of attacks on police in Juarez, believed to be the work of organized...
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Mexico supplies most of the US's heroin, but prices are still falling —...
JUQUILA YUCUCANI (Reuters) — In the mountains of Mexico's tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin,...
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The US seized a record $1.3 billion worth of meth 'artfully' hidden in...
US officials in California seized nearly 2 tons of methamphetamine hidden in loudspeakers.The drugs were headed for Australia, where they would have an estimated value of more than $1 billion.Four...
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The Navy is sending one of its newest ships to hunt high-seas drug smugglers
A littoral combat ship is slated to deploy to the waters of US Southern Command this year to battle drug smugglers, its top officer told lawmakers Thursday.SOUTHCOM commander Adm. Craig Faller declared...
View ArticleThe US got 'El Chapo' Guzman — now it has to get his $14 billion
The US got 'El Chapo' Guzman — now it has to get his $14 billionSEE ALSO: Drug cartels make billions in the US, but somebody else is doing the sellingJoin the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH:...
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The city of Medellin just blew up Pablo Escobar's house
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A six-floor apartment building in Medellin that Pablo Escobar once called home was demolished Friday in an emotional ceremony that officials hope will dampen some of the...
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Mexico's Sinaloa cartel allegedly used shipments of new Ford cars to smuggle...
Canadian authorities found 180 kilos of meth hidden inside spare tires shipped with new Ford cars from Mexico.Authorities have said the Sinaloa cartel was responsible for the shipment.Mexico's cartels...
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Traffickers are turning the Pacific Ocean into a drug-smuggling superhighway
Smuggling routes in southern South America and the Caribbean appear to be experiencing disruptions.Those obstacles are pushing traffickers into the Pacific, which was already a major artery for drug...
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US agents seized $77 million of cocaine at a New York-area port — the biggest...
US officials seized 3,200 pounds of cocaine at Port New York/Newark at the end of February.The seizure is estimated to be worth $77 million and is the largest at the port since 1994.NEWARK, N.J. (AP) —...
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Netflix's 'Triple Frontier' — nothing more than another narco-exploitation flick
Netflix's recent action-packed offering, "Triple Frontier," squanders a chance to explore a booming hub for organized crime in Latin America, argues Tristan Clavel.With a script that makes little sense...
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2 former Army Green Berets were just sentenced to 9 years in jail for trying...
Two former Army Green Berets have been sentenced for their attempted to smuggled cocaine to the US.They each received nine years in prison, and another suspect is awaiting extradition from Colombia to...
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Mexico's president wants to change how the drug war is fought, and he may be...
Mexico's president has announced plans to revise the Merida Initiative, a billion-dollar US aid program that has funded the war on drugs, and to decriminalize drugs and pursue national development over...
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More than one-quarter of the gasoline sold in Colombia is used to make cocaine
Colombia is investigating 33 gas stations — many in rural areas where criminal activity and cocaine production is present — for having suspiciously high demand for gasoline.As much as 70 million...
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Mexico's cartels appear to be shaking up the cocaine trade
Unrefined coca base is increasingly being smuggled out of Colombia, rather than refined powder cocaine, the country's top counter-drug official said in May.That change hints has a broader shift in the...
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