Two leaders of Mexico’s deadly Sinaloa Cartel, including the son of the notorious crime boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, were arrested by American law enforcement officials, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Thousands of confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal an unprecedented glimpse into a culture of corruption among DEA agents who exploited the agency’s covert money laundering operations for global escapades of binge drinking and illicit sex.
Federal law enforcement has discovered an alarming link between the Sinaloa drug cartel and underground Chinese banking groups in the U.S. that laundered cash from drug trafficking proceeds.
The DEA is expected to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic move that would dramatically ease federal restrictions on cannabis.
A now-retired DEA agent accused of protecting drug traffickers in exchange for cash bribes was convicted by a jury of obstruction of justice and lying to federal agents.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations today in a corruption trial involving a now-retired DEA agent who is accused of accepting cash bribes to protect drug traffickers.
Steven L. Hofer was named special agent in charge of the DEA’s New Orleans Field Office, the agency announced Wednesday.
The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate was charged with conspiring to traffic nuclear weapons from Burma to other countries, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
