Judge Orders Drug Cartel's Assets Seized
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A Colombian judge has ordered the seizure of dozens of properties, businesses, bank accounts and vehicles allegedly belonging to the jailed founders of the once-mighty Cali drug cartel, officials said Tuesday.
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Dozens of people accused of working for a Mexican drug cartel were arrested Wednesday in a multistate bust that has netted more than $45 million in cash
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A judge investigating Gen. Augusto Pinochet's secret multi-million dollar bank accounts in the United States has ordered the assets of the former dictator frozen, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.
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A Spanish court has ordered police to capture and search two vessels belonging to a Florida firm that recently announced it had found a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean laden with an estimated $500 million worth of Colonial-era treasure, news reports said Tuesday.
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A court in Colombia ordered immediate arrest of three men linked to the IRA who are hiding in the South American country. The decision came after the court in Bogota overturned a judge&#39;s earlier acquittal
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The Bolivian government on Thursday began legal proceedings to seize the vast landholdings of a prominent opposition leader, saying the property was fraudulently obtained and should be given to a local Indian tribe.
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A Georgian court said Friday it had ordered a freeze of the assets of a billionaire businessman who is under investigation for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government.
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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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The leader of Mexico's most infamous drug cartel pleaded guilty in a federal court on Monday to charges of running a criminal enterprise and money laundering in a plea bargain with U.S. authorities that will spare him the death penalty.
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The judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation case tentatively ruled on Monday that dozens of items of evidence seized at the singer&#39;s Neverland Valley Ranch and a private
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The Colombian government is pursuing a relentless campaign to seize drug traffickers' assets.
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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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TIJUANA, Mexico  - A key hitman for Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel was arrested on Saturday in this crime-ridden border city, in another coup for President Felipe Calderon's clampdown on traffickers.
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The slaying of a Mexican drug lord's brother was part of a wider battle between cartels for control of border drug trafficking routes, Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha said Monday.
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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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The most powerful drug lord ever  extradited by Colombia appeared chained before a U.S. judge on  Monday, and his lawyer said he would fight U.S. charges he ran  his multibillion-dollar business from a Colombian jail cell.
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The two brothers accused of running Colombia's Cali cocaine cartel are nearing an agreement to plead guilty in exchange for guarantees that other family members won't face charges and will have access to some of the $2.1 billion the government wants to seize, The Associated Press has learned.