Topic: Drug Crimes
AP News | 2010-02-04 21:58:44
FILE - This 2005 file photo provided the Mexican Federal Police shows Miguel Angel Caro Quintero, 46, a Mexican drug kingpin who led a fearsome cartel for more than a decade. He was sentenced Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, to 17 years ...
AP News | 2010-02-05 14:57:33
17 years for Mexican drug kingpin after US drug, racketeering conviction
It started with a forgetful hotel guest — $42,000 left in a room in Boulder, Colo. It ended two decades later with the leader of a fearsome Mexican cartel sent to prison for 17 years. The discovery in 1988 eventually led authorities to hundreds of pounds of marijuana and ...
Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-02-04 18:54:52
URUAPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - This sunkissed corner of western Mexico is the source of an annual bounty of guacamole dip for U.S. Super Bowl fans, but extortion and kidnapping by drug gangs has cast a grim shadow over its avocado farmers. The drug lords of Michoacan state have branched out in recent years from trafficking narcotics to menacing the prosperous ...
AP News | 2010-02-04 13:06:57
The head of the U.S. office of drug control policy Gil Kerlikowske, left, and his Russian counterpart Viktor Ivanov, right, exchange signed documents during a meeting of the U.S.-Russian Bilateral Presidential Commission Drug Trafficking Working Group in ...
