Mexico extradites alleged drug kingpin
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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 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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Colombian drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela was flown to the United States early Saturday aboard a U.S. government plane, becoming the most powerful Colombian trafficker ever extradited to face U.S. justice.
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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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Mexican officials said Monday they have captured a man allegedly involved in shipping nearly half of the illegal drugs moved across the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest in a series of high-profile arrests.
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Mexico's army has arrested a leading member of one of the country's most notorious drug cartels, the attorney-general's office said on Monday.
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In the latest twist in Mexico's war  on drug trafficking, a senior member of President Vicente Fox's  staff has been arrested over possible links with a drugs gang,  Mexico's attorney general said on Saturday.
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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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The former boss of Colombia's Cali  cocaine cartel was in a U.S. prison cell on Saturday after an  extradition that capped a 14-year investigation into his  multibillion dollar drug business.
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Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday that they have charged two policemen with protecting the Arellano Felix drug trafficking gang, whose alleged kingpin was recently arrested by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Colombia offered to extradite a jailed paramilitary chief to the United States on Friday after kicking him out of a peace accord with the government on charges he organized drug trafficking from his prison cell.
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Soldiers in north-west Mexico seize a man suspected of being a top member of the powerful Sinaloa drugs cartel.
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested
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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.
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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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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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The leader of a Venezuelan heroin  trafficking ring has been extradited to New York on charges his  group brought $70 million worth of drugs into the United  States, federal prosecutors said on Friday.