Key Mexican drugs boss arrested
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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 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.
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Police in Moscow have arrested a suspected crime boss with alleged links to Russia's multibillion dollar gas business who has long been sought by the FBI and Interpol, officials said Friday.
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The scandal-hit former head of the Organisation of American States is arrested in his native Costa Rica.
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Colombian police arrested a suspected top Guatemalan drug trafficker who had fled a Mexican prison by bribing guards while he awaited extradition to the United States, authorities said on Thursday.
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Police in Colombia capture a leading suspected drug trafficker, Diego Montoya, the government says.
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A fugitive Naples crime boss who built one of the most dangerous cartels has been captured, Italian authorities said Saturday.
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Mexico said on Wednesday it will investigate whether its federal agents protected a Chinese-Mexican businessman tied to the largest seizure of drug cash in world history, while the businessman's lawyers told a Washington news conference they fear for their client's life if he is returned to Mexico.
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Colombia's top drugs lord, known as the "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of metric tons of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday in the country's biggest narcotics arrest in years.
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Police in Moscow arrested a suspected international crime boss who has been linked to Russia's multibillion dollar natural gas industry and has long been sought by the FBI, officials said Friday.
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Spanish police have arrested an Algerian suspected of being a member of a terrorist organization, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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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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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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A former Mexican policeman accused in the 1975 kidnapping and disappearance of a young revolutionary was arrested on Friday, a second detention in a probe of state atrocities committed three decades ago.
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A suspected crime boss sought by the FBI for years has been arrested on a Moscow street in connection with a tax evasion probe into owners of a cosmetic-shop chain, officials said Friday.
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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 extradited 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 drug charges.