Dominican and US officials crack down on regional drug trafficking ring

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — U.S. and Dominican officials on Wednesday arrested nearly a dozen suspects after they launched a joint operation to crack down on a regional drug trafficking ring. Officials with the Dominican Republic’s Anti-Drug Agency and agents with...

Mexican cartel leader 'El Mayo' Zambada pleads not guilty to US charges

NEW YORK (AP) — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a powerful leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, pleaded not guilty Friday in a U.S. drug trafficking case that accuses him of engaging in murder plots and ordering torture. Participating in a court hearing through a Spanish-language...

Longtime boss in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel pleads not guilty to drug trafficking and murder conspiracy charges in New York

Police in Guinea-Bissau seize nearly 3 tons of cocaine on plane from Venezuela

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Police in Guinea-Bissau seized 2.6 tons of cocaine from a plane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country’s capital, Bissau, over the weekend, judicial police said Monday. The agents confiscated 78 bales of drugs that were smuggled in...

Mexican drug cartel leader will be transferred from Texas to New York

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Friday said that a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who was arrested over the summer in the U.S. can be transferred from Texas to New York to face charges there. The order from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso came after...

Mexican drug cartel leader agrees to be transferred from Texas to New York

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who has been held in Texas since his arrest in the U.S. over the summer does not oppose being transferred to New York to face charges there, according to a court filing Thursday. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76,...

Mexican drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén has been released from a US prison and may be deported

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, one of Mexico’s most-feared drug lords, has been released from a U.S. prison after serving most of a 25-year prison sentence, authorities confirmed Friday. A U.S. Bureau of Prisons official said Cárdenas Guillén had been released...

Takeaways from the AP's report on Mexican mothers searching for their disappeared children

MEXICO CITY (AP) — According to official figures, at least 115,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 1952, though the real number is believed to be higher. During the country’s “dirty war,” a conflict that lasted throughout the 1970s, disappearances were attributed to...

One day, their children didn't make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers' search for them

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Each time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think of: kneel, grab each other’s hands and pray. “I told God: Please help me,” said Rosas, who has spent the past nine years searching for her son,...

Mexican military is attacked and roads blocked in Sinaloa state, authorities say

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities said Thursday there have been attacks on military personnel and roads blocked with vehicles in northern Sinaloa state. The state police department said the violence broke out in an area just north of the state capital, Culiacan. The state is...