Key drug trafficker nabbed in Mexico
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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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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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Colombian police say they have captured a suspected key drug trafficker on the US most-wanted list.
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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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The Mexican authorities on Monday announced the arrest of Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, who is accused of being a leader of a crime organization responsible for nearly
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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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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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Chicago Tribune - The arrest of President Vicente Fox's travel coordinator, Nahum Acosta Lugo, has led to a deeper investigation into whether drug traffickers have infiltrated the Mexican president's office.
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The Coast Guard caught Mexican drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano Felix deep-sea fishing off Mexico, decapitating a murderous cartel that dug smuggling tunnels under the U.S. border, officials said Wednesday.
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Colombia's most notorious cocaine trafficker, Diego Montoya, was captured on Monday after a long manhunt in which the United States offered $5 million for information leading to his arrest, the government said.
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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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A senior aide to the Mexican president is arrested on suspicion of leaking information to drug gangs.
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Colombia's top drug lord, who earned the title "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of tonnes of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday, the country's biggest narcotics arrest in a decade.
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A top operative of Mexico's infamous Sinaloa cartel was arrested Monday.
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Police said Saturday they have arrested one of Rio de Janeiro's most-wanted drug lords.
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Three U.S. residents and seven others linked to the powerful Gulf drug cartel were arrested following a deadly shootout just across the border from Texas, Mexican officials said Tuesday
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A former Mexican governor freed after six years behind bars was immediately re-arrested Thursday on a U.S. extradition request in which he is accused of helping smuggle 200 tons of cocaine into the United States, federal prosecutors said.