MS-13 Case Adds Salvadoran Inmates
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While jailed in their home country, Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13 street gang directed fellow members in suburban Maryland to commit violent crimes, including murders, federal officials said yesterday.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican federal officials said yesterday that an alleged drug trafficker linked to the country's largest seizure of drug cash has been arrested in Maryland.
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MEXICO CITY, June 21 -- A former Mexican governor accused of involvement in drug trafficking was arrested Thursday and is awaiting possible extradition to the United States.
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Gang members take more than 100 people hostage in co-ordinated uprisings at two prisons in El Salvador.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Ten gang members were given  lengthy prison terms for the murders of 12 women in a Mexican  city on the U.S. border where hundreds of women have died in a  mysterious 12-year killing spree, court officials said on  Friday.
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Federal agents arrested more than 130 alleged drug traffickers from coast-to-coast Tuesday who U.S. officials said smuggled heroin from Mexico and offered phone-up home delivery like a takeout pizza shop.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- A riot taking place Wednesday at La Esperanza Jail, in Mariona, in the outskirts of El Salvador,left a toll of 30 dead and 28 injured, with six grenades exploding.
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By Mark Gomez, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 6--A San Jose man who stuffed some methamphetamine into a Strawberry Shortcake doll and brought his teenage son and stepdaughter along on a drug deal was arrested in Los Gatos, agents from a special state task force said today.
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SAN SALVADOR -- Homemade grenades started exploding midmorning Aug. 18 at La Esperanza, El Salvador's largest prison, and the 3,200 inmates locked inside the overcrowded cage stampeded to escape the blasts and the fireballs.
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Rival groups of inmates battled  with guns, grenades and machetes at a prison in El Salvador on  Wednesday, killing at least 31 prisoners.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - One night in May 1994, former U.S. naval officer Saul Sanchez and his wife Abigail were getting ready for the theater in this northern Mexican city when armed men banged on their door and dragged them away. They were never seen again.
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Thirteen years into their probe, U.S. investigators have assembled a team of smugglers, accountants and associates to testify against Colombian cartel kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela.
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A Mexican national surrendered at the U.S. border Wednesday on allegations of abducting a 13-year-old from a Florida bus stop last month and leaving him tied up in the woods before the boy escaped, officials said. Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno, 22, agreed to voluntarily return from Mexico after several days of negotiations with the FBI, Manatee County Sheriff Charlie Wells said.
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Central American authorities have asked the FBI to help solve the murder of three Salvadoran representatives to Central America's regional parliament in Guatemala this week.
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Arrest warrants were issued for 13 people in connection with the alleged CIA-orchestrated kidnapping of a German citizen in the agency's extraordinary rendition program, a Munich prosecutor said Wednesday.
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A top police official and three other officers were arrested Thursday in the killings of three Central American Parliament members, including the son of the alleged founder of El Salvador's death squads.
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At least 31 prisoners were killed and 23 wounded during clashes between warring gang members and other inmates in El Salvador&#39;s largest prison.