Mexico Captures 'Legend of Drug Trafficking' to U.S.
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Mexico has captured a drug lord  accused of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled across  the border into the United States and who had a $2 million  price tag on his head, the government said on Monday.
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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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Violent gangs with roots in U.S.  crime culture are spreading through Mexico, with some setting  up shop in the capital, the government said on Thursday.
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U.S. federal agents have arrested a Mexico City businessman wanted in connection with one of the Western Hemisphere's largest trafficking rings for the main chemical ingredient in methamphetamine.
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FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO, Mexico  - In a land of  pyramids and jungle temples, one of Mexico's most curious and  elusive artifacts is an old wooden cross said to have spoken to  Mayan Indians and roused them to rebellion.
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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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Marauding drug gangs in a violent  Mexican border city have turned to kidnapping U.S. citizens for  ransom as they seek to diversify their criminal activities, the  U.S. government warned on Friday.
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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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Mexico has captured a drug lord  suspected of handling half of the illegal drugs smuggled into  the United States and who had a $2 million price tag on his  head, the government said on Monday.
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Mexico extradited accused drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix to the United States on Saturday, making him the first major Mexican drug lord to be sent north to face trial on drug charges.
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Mexico extradited a member of the   infamous Arellano Felix drug-smuggling family to the United   States on Saturday where he has been wanted since the 1980s on   drug charges, a source in the prosecutor general's office said.
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One of the world's most notorious drug traffickers, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, is being extradited to the US.
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A Mexican drug kingpin extradited to Texas last month pleaded innocent on Friday to charges he led a cartel that shipped cocaine and marijuana into the United States.
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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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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 10 -- A reputed cocaine kingpin who is among the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives was captured Monday in an army operation that is being hailed by government officials as a major blow against drug trafficking in this Andean country.
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TAMPICO, Mexico  - The Mexican army convoy rolled off a Hercules plane in the middle of the night, purred through this sweltering port city's dingy back streets and swooped on traffickers unloading cocaine in a warehouse.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Mexican journalist Francisco  Arratia used to tap out daily columns sounding off against the  drug traffickers and corrupt cops that blighted his home city  on the U.S. border.