By Selim Algar New York Post They’re real-life Rambos gone bad. A squadron of former elite military personnel from the US and Germany plotted to assassinate a DEA agent and an informant — both undercover agents – who were interfering with a cocaine distribution ring, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment released Friday. Led…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Colombian drug lord Francisco Gonzalez Uribe, designated by the Justice Department as one of “the world’s most significant drug kingpins”, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York to 30 years in prison, authorities announced. Gonzalez Uribe, 44, was arrested in 2009 in the Dominican Republic and pleaded guilty…
In these small little towns in California, not only are some of the politicians extremely corrupt, but they’ve become places where gangs and Mexican and Colombian drug cartels operate freely. Investigative reporter Jeffrey Anderson examines the problem. By Jeffrey Anderson Washington Times BELL, Calif. — The gang graffiti that coats freeway overpasses, exit signs and…
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com A man who represented the interests of a major Colombian drug cartel in Mexico, has been extradited to New York to stand trial, authorities said. Pedro Antonio Bermudez, known as “El Arquitecto,” was arrested in Mexico City on Oct. 2, 2008 and remained in Mexican custody until his extradition to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com All is not always fair or safe in love and war. The FBI arrested a Florida woman on Monday with trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband, who helped put her behind bars in a major drug-money laundering case, the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported. Mercedes Morales, 57, of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In recent years, the spotlight has turned to the violent Mexican drug cartels shipping drugs into the U.S. But on Friday, U.S. Attorney John M. Bales in Dallas announced the indictment of 25 suspected members of a Colombian drug cartel that moved massive amounts of cocaine into the U.S. through Mexico…
Authorities nabbed a major fish in the drug war. The question is: Will it have any impact on cocaine traffic in the U.S.? By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI — The reputed kingpin of a violent Colombian cartel blamed for smuggling cocaine worth $10 billion to the U.S. was flown aboard an FBI…
