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 he may have been nabbed as part of a prisoner exchange between U.S. and Mexican authorities - specifically, Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, a Mexican drug lord who is alleged to have run the Tijuana drug cartel and is wanted in the U.S.
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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
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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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 sells drug loot online
A crackdown on criminals can translate into cash for the Mexican government when items that qualify are auctioned off.
Mexico is the first government to use eBay technology to take bids on some of property seized from bad guys, tax cheats, drug traffickers and money launderers.
Cars are the most plentiful and popular items, and there's a wide range of models available.
"The most expensive has to be a 911 Porche, I guess," said Francisco Farfan, a spokesman for SAE, Mexico's federal agency charged with disposing the seized property. "We sold a couple of X-Type Jaguars;
Mexico warns church on drug-tainted money
A spokesman for President Vicente Fox on Tuesday warned that no one may accept illegal funds, responding to a Roman Catholic bishop's statement that the church has no obligation to investigate whether donations come from drug trafficking.
The exchange between church and state officials came the week after Pope Benedict XVI lamented that Mexican society was troubled by corruption, drug trafficking and organized crime, during a meeting with bishops from northern and central Mexico at the Vatican.
"At no time, under no condition, may anyone receive illegal money," said Fox spokesman Ruben Aguilar. "No one may
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
Steroid crackdown results in indictments in U.S. and Mexico
Federal officials on Thursday announced the indictments of 23 people and eight Mexico-based manufacturers of anabolic steroids on federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
The indictments are the result of a two-year investigation, dubbed "Operation Gear Grinder," that targeted Mexican companies that prosecutors say are responsible for more than 80 percent of the performance-enhancing anabolic steroids that are illegally smuggled into the United States.
John S. Fernandes, the top Drug Enforcement Administration agent in San Diego, said the operation was the largest steroid enforcement operation in U.S. history and that it should
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
REP is sold to firm in Mexico
A Mexican steel manufacturer has purchased Republic Engineered Products Inc., including the Lorain works, for an undisclosed amount, according to the Fairlawn-based REP. The sale came after a month of ''intense'' talks and the deal was closed yesterday, REP spokesman John Willoughby said.
The buyer is Industrias CH, S.A., de C.V. (ICH), a rapidly growing steel producer and processor based in Mexico City, Willoughby said.
Willoughby and officials of United Steelworkers Local 1104, which represents workers at REP's rolling bar mill in Lorain, said yesterday they didn't know enough about the purchase agreement to say
