Drug Cartel Bust Nets $45M In Cash
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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
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Soldiers swarmed onto a farm Monday and captured one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers hiding in bushes in his underwear. Colombian officials called it their biggest drug war victory since the 1993 slaying of Medellin cartel leader Pablo Escobar.
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Colombian police say they have arrested a man on a list of the drug-traffickers most wanted by the US. The US says Dagoberto Florez Rios is a member of the Norte del Valle cartel, which is estimated to smuggle
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A reputed drug lord on the FBI's top 10 most-wanted list was captured in western Colombia, the interior minister said Monday, in a major blow to the country's largest remaining drug cartel.
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A junior dealer detained over the biggest fraud in banking history is helping investigators, police said on Sunday, as his employer revealed that he had bet 50 billion euros ($73.3 billion) of its money on illicit trades.
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The former boss of the Cali drug cartel, who once controlled most of the world's cocaine trade, was sent to the United States on Friday to face trafficking and money laundering charges.
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Police arrested 52 people Friday in a drug bust in which cocaine was transported aboard Carnival cruise ships from Jamaica to New Orleans and then driven to Tampa, police said.
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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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NACO, Mexico -- The message came on police emergency radio: An army of drug traffickers with machine guns mounted on their pickup trucks was headed toward this town of 5,000 people on the Arizona-Mexico border.
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Repsol YPF, Spain&#39;s biggest oil firm, plans to sell up to 45 percent of its Argentinian unit, a deal that could earn it more than four billion euros (5.4 billion dollars).
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Officials in Mali say they have seized 750kg of cocaine valued at $45m, after a two-hour gun battle.
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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.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19 -- Mexican drug cartels now operate in almost every region of the United States and bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to a Government Accountability Office report that will be released Thursday.
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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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In stories Jan. 13, 14 and 18 about Mexican drug cases, The Associated Press erroneously reported the reward offered by U.S. authorities for alleged Mexican drug lord Ismael Zambada, alias "El Mayo." The amount is &#36;5 million, not &#36;2 million.
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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 in cash, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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MEXICO CITY - 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 US$2 million ($3.