Mexican aide held on 'drug links'
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A senior aide to the Mexican president is arrested on suspicion of leaking information to drug gangs.
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A Chinese-Mexican businessman charged in the largest drug-related cash seizure in history accused a top Mexican official of forcing him to stash millions in illicit campaign funds in the walls and closets of his Mexico City mansion.
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Colombia&#39;s top drug kingpin is now in custody in the US A plane from Colombia to Miami touched down earlier Saturday with Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela on board.
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Mexico extradited accused drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix to the United States on Saturday to face drug charges, federal prosecutors said.
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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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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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Colombian police say they have arrested a man on a list of the drug-traffickers most wanted by the US. The US says Dagoberto Florez Rios is a member of the Norte del Valle cartel, which is estimated to smuggle
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Mexican soldiers have captured a suspected drug cartel boss in the most significant arrest since President Felipe Calderon sent thousands of troops to restore order in a western state terrorized by drug gangs, the military said Sunday.
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Mexico extradited one of the   infamous Arellano Felix drug-smuggling brothers on Saturday to   the United States, where he has faced drug charges since the   1980s, a source in the attorney general's office said.
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Mexico extradited one of the   infamous Arellano Felix drug-smuggling brothers to the United   States on Saturday, the attorney general's office said, in a   rare extradition of a major Mexican trafficker.
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The Colombian police captured on Tuesday an important member of the North Cauca Valley, the largestdrug-trafficking ring in the country.
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Colombian police arrested a suspected top Guatemalan drug trafficker who had fled a Mexican prison by bribing guards while he awaited extradition to the United States, authorities said on Thursday.
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Mexican troops arrested a leading member of one of the country's two main drug gangs and seized nearly a million dollars in cash, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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Mexico said on Wednesday it will investigate whether its federal agents protected a Chinese-Mexican businessman tied to the largest seizure of drug cash in world history, while the businessman's lawyers told a Washington news conference they fear for their client's life if he is returned to Mexico.
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An alleged leader of a powerful drug gang was caught near the border with California, Mexican officials announced Monday, calling it a blow to a syndicate they say is smuggling nearly half the illegal drugs crossing the U.S.-Mexico frontier.
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A key member of Mexico's powerful Gulf Cartel drug gang, wanted by Washington for attempted murder of federal agents, was arrested at a swanky steakhouse in the capital, Mexican and U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, said to be behind half the cocaine smuggled into the US from Mexico, is arrested.