Mexico arrests senior drug cartel member
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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, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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Mexican authorities have arrested a major figure in a Colombian cartel responsible for nearly half of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, the U.S. ambassador in Mexico said Friday.
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Federal agents on Saturday arrested Mexico City's former finance secretary, who disappeared this year after he was videotaped spending what appeared to be taxpayer money at casinos in Las Vegas.
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Former President Rafael Angel Calderon was detained Thursday in connection with a corruption investigation, local media reported.
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An alleged top cocaine smuggler has been captured, Mexican authorities said Monday.
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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 and tons of cocaine, heroin and marijuana, federal officials said.
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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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Mexican police say they have captured a high-profile drugs lord - Ugly Poncho - in the western state of Michoacan.
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Colombian prosecutors on Friday ordered the arrest of a prominent political boss for alleged involvement in a kidnapping at the heart of a scandal tying Colombia's political elite to right-wing paramilitary groups.
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Spanish police arrested a Syrian arms dealer wanted by the United States on terrorism and other charges, the Interior Ministry said Friday.
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A founder of a Colombian drug cartel that became the world's chief supplier of cocaine in the 1990s was transported to a Florida jail Saturday after being extradited from Colombia.
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A senior member of Zimbabwe's ruling party is arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle diamonds abroad.
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The murderous Khmer Rouge regime&#39;s most senior surviving leader was arrested Wednesday, plucked from his home in the Cambodian jungle to face justice at the country&#39;s long-delayed genocide trials.
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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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The United States arrested on Monday a Mexican laboratory owner accused of helping make huge quantities of crystal meth, four months after police found $206 million cash in his Mexico City mansion.
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Colombia's top drugs lord, known as the "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of metric tons of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday in the country's biggest narcotics arrest in years.
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A Colombian paramilitary leader accused of taking eight tourists hostage last year is arrested, police say.