By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former leader of the Tijuana Cartel/Arellano-Felix Organization was sentenced Monday in San Diego fed court to 25 years in prison, the DEA announced. Benjamin Arellano-Felix, nearly 60, was also ordered to forfeit $100 million in criminal proceeds. “The Tijuana Cartel was one of the world’s most brutal drug trafficking networks,…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As Mexican president Felipe Calderon prepares to arrive in Washington, word has surfaced that Mexican authorities seized documents from a drug cartel listing Mexican federal agents and their phone numbers and intelligence information that originated from the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to the Associated Press. AP reported that the…
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…
This is a good good initiative. We just need more of these because the violent Mexican drug cartels aren’t going away, not so long as business remains brisk. By Juan A. Lozano Associated Press Writer HOUSTON- A four-month effort to stop the flow of firearms from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels has helped law…
No question, with the stakes so high, the money so plentiful, the Mexican drug trade isn’t going away any time soon. The U.S. announcement on Thursday of a major indictment including major cartel figures is good, but it certainly does NOT mark the end, or anything close to it. By Anthony L. Kimery HS TODAY…
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…
