Mexico extradites drug lord suspect
Alleged drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix was extradited to the United States on Saturday to face drug charges, becoming the first major Mexican drug lord suspect to be sent north for trial.
Mexicos extradition of the man who is suspected of having once run the Arellano Félix drug clan was a victory for U.S. officials, who have been pushing Mexico to send them more drug lords.
Arellano Félix was loaded into a helicopter in Matamoros, then flown across the border and handed over to Texas officials in Brownsville after serving a 10-year sentence in Mexico. He will be taken to California to face trial on charges stemming from a 1980 case in which he allegedly sold cocaine to an undercover police officer in the United States.
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Collaborator of Mexico Drug Lord Sentenced
An alleged cohort of imprisoned drug lord Osiel Cardenas was sentenced Thursday to 44 years in prison on drug-related charges, authorities said.
Adan Javier Medrano was convicted of smuggling drug money from the United States into Mexico and distributing cocaine north of the border, the federal Attorney Generals Office said in a news release.
Medrano served as a gunman for Cardenas Gulf Cartel, which moved tons of cocaine and marijuana into the U.S., and was in charge of drug-related activites in Chiapas state and Guatemala, the release said.
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Duane Dog Chapman Says Feds Sold Him Out to Mexico in Exchange for Drug Lord
Bounty hunter Duane Dog Chapman says U.S. officials may have sold him out to Mexico in exchange for a convicted drug lord.
Chapman, the star of A&Es Dog the Bounty Hunter, was arrested last week by U.S. marshals during an early morning raid on his Hawaii home on charges related to his 2003 capture of fugitive rapist Andrew Luster.
Mexico - where bounty hunting is illegal - claims Chapman jumped bail after being charged with illegally detaining Luster in June 2003.
But Dog and his family have suggested that
Mexico's most wanted man may be in Guatemala-police
Mexico's most wanted man, drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, may have entered neighboring Guatemala where police are searching for him, authorities said on Friday.
"We have not yet determined if he is here, but we have evidence that leads us to believe he is inside our territory," Guatemala's anti-drug police chief Adan Castillo told a news conference.
Guzman has been sought in Mexico since he escaped from a high-security jail in 2001. He has engaged in a fierce war with rival drug barons that has killed more than 1,000 people this year.
The United States is
Mexico to return Denver murder suspect
A Mexican suspect in the shooting death of a Denver detective has not appealed his extradition and will be sent back from his Mexico City jail cell.
Raul Gomez-Garcia, 20, did not appeal the Mexican government`s extradition decision issued on Thanksgiving Day, and the 15-day appeal period has passed, the Denver Post reported.
Gomez-Garcia is charged with second-degree murder in Donald Young`s death and with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of Detective John Bishop. He is accused of ambushing the two uniformed off-duty detectives while they provided security at a party at a social hall
Suspect arrested in northern Mexico in connection with series of rapes
Mexico Authorities say a Guatemalan man originally arrested for burglary is now being questioned in a series of rapes in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Ulises Ernesto Mijangos (mee-HAN'-goes) was arrested Tuesday in Chihuahua -- the capital city of the state of the same name. State Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez says Mijangos was initial charged in a break-in but was later identified as a sex-crimes suspect by state prosecutors.
Chihuahua authorities are seeking the man responsible for at least two rapes since 2003 in the Chihuahua's capital and seven
Suspect arrested in northern Mexico in connection with series of rapes
Mexico Authorities say a Guatemalan man originally arrested for burglary is now being questioned in a series of rapes in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Ulises Ernesto Mijangos (mee-HAN'-goes) was arrested Tuesday in Chihuahua -- the capital city of the state of the same name. State Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez says Mijangos was initial charged in a break-in but was later identified as a sex-crimes suspect by state prosecutors.
Chihuahua authorities are seeking the man responsible for at least two rapes since 2003 in the Chihuahua's capital and seven
County drug squad helps bust Mexico-Atlanta drug group
Undercover Fayette County drug agents played a role in a months-long investigation of a Mexican drug trafficking operation that netted 28 arrests Wednesday, authorities said.
The multi-state investigation also netted about 592 kilograms of cocaine, more than 40 pounds of methamphetamine and $8 million in cash, officials said. Multiple weapons and more than $1 million in cash was recovered in the metro Atlanta area alone.
The sting, called “Operation Long Whine,†also resulted in about two pounds of crystal methamphetamine — often referred to as “ice†— and the lab which was used
MEXICO Ex-consul freed in setback for prosecutors
A judge has freed and cleared a former Mexican consul accused of participating in a ring that smuggled hundreds of Lebanese migrants into the United States, another setback for the Mexican attorney general's office.
The release of Imelda Ortiz Abdala, consul to Lebanon from 1999-2001, suggested that Mexican officials may have overreached as they went after a smuggling ring first prosecuted in the U.S.
The attorney general's office, which did not respond to requests for comment, has been embarrassed by bad arrests recently but often has blamed U.S. intelligence.
This month, officials arrested a Mexico City architect
Mexico officers wary of crossing drug cartels
On the front lines of the drug cartel wars, feigned ignorance can be bliss.
In an environment in which speaking too boldly against drug traffickers can prove deadly — an outspoken police chief was killed here in June only hours after taking office — local authorities prefer to lower their voices.
So it's not surprising that officers for Tamaulipas state and this border city had mixed feelings about legislation submitted to Mexico's Congress last week designed to give them more authority in the fight against "narcos."
One of the proposals would allow them to
Suspect held in Mexico
By Hugh Dellios and David Heinzmann, Tribune staff reporters. Tribune foreign correspondent Hugh Dellios reported from Mexico, and staff reporter David Heinzmann reported from Chicago.
The FBI and Mexican authorities on Wednesday arrested a man charged in the January 2005 slaying of a restaurant hostess and Evanston native who was beaten and strangled in her North Side apartment.
Roberto Ramirez, 25, was identified almost immediately as the main suspect in the Jan. 24 killing of Melissa Dorner, 21, whose body was found in her apartment. Ramirez who lived in the same building in the 6100 block of North
