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The Associated Press: Mexico vote goes ahead despite slain candidate: "Drug cartels fund a tenth of Mexico's economy. They have infiltrated many local and state police forces and staged assaults on army bases. Now they're violently inserting themselves into politics, killing the leading candidate for governor of a northern state only days before Sunday's elections in 12 states.The assassination of Rodolfo Torre in the border state of Tamaulipas on Monday capped the deadliest month yet in President Felipe Calderon's military-led offensive against...
U.S. Banks Laundered Mexican Drug Money, Says Report - DailyFinance: "In April, Mexican soldiers searched a DC-9 jet that had landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. On the plane they found 128 black suitcases, packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100 million. Law-enforcement officials later also discovered something else. The smugglers had bought the DC-9 with laundered funds they transferred through two of America's biggest banks: Wachovia and Bank of America (BAC), Bloomberg...
Uk’s ‘drug Mules’ | Twitravel | Best travel deals: "Drug gangs using young women to smuggle drugs into United Kingdom Drug gangs in UK are using now a different way to smuggle cocaine. Now they are hiring young women called “drug mules” to bring in the drugs from Africa. In recent months, there are lots of incidents where British girls in their teens are caught with drugs at the airports in UK or African countries. It has been generally seen that young women had been groomed as smugglers and are lured with holidays, expensive meals, clothes and...
FOXNews.com - Five Federal Lands in Arizona Have Travel Warnings in Place: "southern Arizona, where parts of five federal lands -- including two designated national monuments -- continue to post travel warnings or be outright closed to Americans who own the land because of the dangers of 'human and drug trafficking' along the Mexican border.Roughly 3,500 acres of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge -- about 3 percent of the 118,000-acre park -- have been closed since Oct. 6, 2006, when U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials acknowledged...
Police Sniff Out 2 Drug Smugglers - Las Vegas News Story - KVVU Las Vegas: "Drug traffickers are using complex systems to hide their illicit stashes and get their product to the black market, police said.In Boulder City, the town the Hoover Dam built, a large amount of traffic to and from Arizona travels along U.S. 93.“It's always been a haven for narcotic travel,” said Sgt. Slade Griffin.Police are catching on to the drug smugglers who employ many devices to elude detection using what police call “Highway Interdiction Training” to learn where...
Drug smuggling pair jailed for 38 years | Home Office: "Grimsby Crown Court heard evidence that Marcel Casper Gerardus Reitman and Mathieu Peter Josef Poulissen tried to smuggle almost 80 kilos of the drug in a lorry filled with jam in September 2009.The men, who live in Venlo, Holland, had travelled on the ferry from the Hook of Holland to Killingholme docks, near Immingham, Humberside.Stopped at a scannerWhen the vehicle passed through a UK Border Agency (new window) scanner at the docks, officers noticed something odd in a refrigeration unit....
BBC News - Cocaine worth thousands recovered in Stonehaven: "seized drugs in the Stonehaven area worth thousands of pounds. Cocaine with an estimated street value of more than £17,000 was recovered on Thursday. Two men from Birmingham, aged 29 and 30, and a 20-year-old man from Aberdeen were due to appear at the city's sheriff court on Friday. Grampian Police merged its former drug and crime squads last mont...
Lorry driver charged with smuggling after drugs worth £1 million are found at the Port of Dover: "LORRY driver has been charged with drug smuggling after a haul of amphetamine and Ecstasy was discovered at the Port of Dover.The drugs, with an estimated value of £1 million, were found at the Eastern Docks yesterday in a lorry driven by Ralph Cross.UK Border Agency officers had searched the vehicle with a detector dog and found three holdalls containing an estimated 100 kilos of white powder and a number of tablets. The powder gave a positive reaction...
Drug bust serendipity: Tips lead to 11 arrests, seizure of pot, heroin and guns - Salt Lake Tribune: "Police say five recent strike force drug busts resulted in 11 arrests and the seizure of some $600,000 worth of drugs in the Ogden and Salt Lake areas. The Weber Morgan Narcotics Strike Force says the May 27-28 operation targeted marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin trafficking. Police say one of the arrests was a convicted felon nabbed in Ogden driving a truck with seven rifles, a footlocker full of ammunition and welding equipment believed to...
