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 said Monday that Gilberto Higuera Guerrero was arrested early Sunday in the northern border city of Mexicali. He is among Mexico&#39;s most wanted drug traffickers.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 20 -- Federal law enforcement officials  have arrested an assistant state prosecutor suspected of involvement in the murder of a state political party leader, a federal drug investigator and two pilots in the violence-torn border state of Durango.
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The U.S. military made the arrest of a "senior leader" in the terror network run by Abu Musab Zarqawi and captured five others Saturday during overnight raids in Fallujah, officials 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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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 Colombian police have captured a reputed leader of the drug cartel held responsible for half the cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s.
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Police in Colombia capture a leading suspected drug trafficker, Diego Montoya, the government says.
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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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An alleged drug cartel hit man who is among the suspects in the 1993 slaying of a Mexican cardinal was arrested in the border city of Tijuana, authorities announced on Saturday.
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Mexican police on Monday arrested a left-wing activist who is one of the leaders behind six months of protests in Oaxaca that led to violent clashes with riot police.
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U.S. police arrested an 83-year-old woman on suspicion of entering California from Mexico with 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of methamphetamine strapped to her body, officials said on Thursday.
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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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DUTCH police have arrested a 62-year-old chemicals dealer suspected of involvement in war crimes and genocide committed by the regime of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the Dutch national prosecutor&#39;s office said today.
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A senior leader of an al Qaeda-linked group has been arrested in Iraq, state television Iraqiya said on Friday.
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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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MONTERREY, Mexico  - The United States has captured a suspected leader of Mexico's powerful Gulf drug cartel and one of the country's most wanted men, Carlos "El Puma" Landin, while he was shopping in Texas, the Drug Enforcement Administration said on Tuesday.