Mexican authorities uncover 24 drug cartel surveillance cameras in city on the border with Arizona

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities said Friday they have detected and seized 24 drug cartel surveillance cameras fixed to telephone and light posts in the border city of San Luis Rio Colorado. The city on the border with Arizona has suffered years of violence between drug...

US Treasury sanctions a chain of ice cream shops and a pharmacy tied to the Sinaloa Cartel

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it sanctioned two Mexican businesses — an ice cream chain and a local pharmacy — for allegedly using proceeds of fentanyl trafficking to finance their operations tied to the Sinaloa cartel. Treasury’s Office of...

Mexican cartel leader's son convicted of violent role in drug trafficking plot

WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a Mexican drug cartel leader was convicted Friday of charges that he used violence, including the deadly downing of a military helicopter, to help his father operate one of the country's largest and most dangerous narcotics trafficking organizations. ...

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...