Accused Mexican drug figure pleads innocent in U.S.
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Francisco Rafael Arellano-Felix,   the oldest of four brothers accused of operating one of   Mexico's most infamous drug cartels, pleaded not guilty on   Monday to 26-year-old drug charges.
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A Mexican national surrendered at the U.S. border Wednesday on allegations of abducting a 13-year-old from a Florida bus stop last month and leaving him tied up in the woods before the boy escaped, officials said. Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno, 22, agreed to voluntarily return from Mexico after several days of negotiations with the FBI, Manatee County Sheriff Charlie Wells said.
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A Colombian accused of leading a powerful drug cartel pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug conspiracy and importation charges on Friday, more than two years after he had been arrested and detained in Cuba.
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One of the world&#39;s most notorious drug traffickers, Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, is on his way to the United States after being extradited from Colombia.
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MEXICO CITY -- One of Mexico's most wanted drug-trafficking suspects was captured without a shot fired over the weekend, authorities said yesterday. It was the latest in a series of high-profile arrests by Mexican law enforcement using intelligence supplied by US antinarcotics agents.
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A Mexican judge has ordered the release of a former state governor wanted in the United States on drug trafficking charges, ruling that a money laundering sentence has been satisfied by time already served.
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CUERNAVACA, Mexico  - The United States will stand by Latin American governments in their battle against powerful drug cartels, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales vowed on Friday.
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(Hartford-AP Sept. 24, 2004 1:00 PM) _ All three people named in the federal indictments stemming from the investigation into the Rowland administration have pleaded innocent to the charges.
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Two members of Colombia's largest rebel group pleaded guilty Thursday to federal drug conspiracy charges, the first from the organization known as FARC to be convicted of narcotics trafficking in the United States, prosecutors said.
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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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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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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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Immigrants from Mexico have brought the legend of JesÃºs Malverde, widely considered the patron saint of drug dealers, to the United States.
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A woman accused of stalking movie star Catherine Zeta-Jones has pleaded innocent at her arraignment in Los Angeles, E! Online reported Thursday.
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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 extradited a top cocaine trafficker to the United States on Thursday to face trial, hoping that testimony he gives will help dismantle the Andean country's toughest drug cartel.
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A powerful paramilitary boss faces a long prison sentence &#151; and possible extradition to the United States &#151; because he broke a partial amnesty deal by continuing to run a drug smuggling ring from jail, authorities said Friday.