Mexico nabs alleged drug figure
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MEXICO CITY -- One of Mexico's most wanted drug-trafficking suspects was captured without a shot fired over the weekend, authorities said yesterday. It was the latest in a series of high-profile arrests by Mexican law enforcement using intelligence supplied by US antinarcotics agents.
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U.S. federal agents have arrested a Mexico City businessman wanted in connection with one of the Western Hemisphere's largest trafficking rings for the main chemical ingredient in methamphetamine.
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Peruvian anti-drug agents seized almost 1,540 pounds of cocaine destined for the Mexico that was hidden inside of a shipment of squid, police said Monday.
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The Mexican president steps up personal security after reports his travel plans were leaked to a drug cartel.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20 -- Federal law enforcement officials  have arrested an assistant state prosecutor suspected of involvement in the murder of a state political party leader, a federal drug investigator and two pilots in the violence-torn border state of Durango.
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BOGOTA -- Police captured a suspected leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel yesterday, the latest arrest in a US-backed effort to dismantle a gang accused of trafficking half of all cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s. Dagoberto Florez was on a list of most wanted alleged cocaine kingpins sought by US authorities under a court ...
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Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, said to be behind half the cocaine smuggled into the US from Mexico, is arrested.
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Chicago Tribune - The arrest of President Vicente Fox's travel coordinator, Nahum Acosta Lugo, has led to a deeper investigation into whether drug traffickers have infiltrated the Mexican president's office.
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A former Mexican governor freed after six years behind bars was immediately re-arrested Thursday on a U.S. extradition request in which he is accused of helping smuggle 200 tons of cocaine into the United States, federal prosecutors said.
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Police in Colombia capture a leading suspected drug trafficker, Diego Montoya, the government says.
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Mexican soldiers have captured a suspected drug cartel boss in the most significant arrest since President Felipe Calderon sent thousands of troops to restore order in a western state terrorized by drug gangs, the military said Sunday.
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Mexico has extradited a record 64 drug kingpins and people smugglers to the United States so far this year, a U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, part of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on drug cartels.
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An alleged leader of a powerful drug gang was caught near the border with California, Mexican officials announced Monday, calling it a blow to a syndicate they say is smuggling nearly half the illegal drugs crossing the U.S.-Mexico frontier.
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Mexico's army on Monday captured a top lieutenant of the powerful Sinaloa cartel who allegedly commanded squads of hit men and organized drug shipments north, officials said.
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Mexico has captured a drug lord  suspected of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled into  the United States and who had a $2 million price tag on his  head, the government said on Monday.
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The Colombian police have captured a reputed leader of the drug cartel held responsible for half the cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s.
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A powerful paramilitary boss faces a long prison sentence &#151; and possible extradition to the United States &#151; because he broke a partial amnesty deal by continuing to run a drug smuggling ring from jail, authorities said Friday.