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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TEL AVIV -- Police arrested a reputed Israeli underworld figure yesterday on an international warrant for allegedly smuggling drugs from the European Union to the United States, authorities said.
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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.
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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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Police on Monday captured the top boss of a powerful organized crime syndicate whose clan feuds have bloodied southern Italy for years, authorities said Monday.
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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 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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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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Mexico extradited one of the   infamous Arellano Felix drug-smuggling brothers to the United   States on Saturday, the attorney general's office said, in a   rare extradition of a major Mexican trafficker.
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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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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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Police captured a reputed leader of the Norte del Valle drug cartel Tuesday, the latest arrest in a U.S.-backed effort to dismantle a gang accused of trafficking half of all cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s.
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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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Federal authorities have detained the head of President Vicente Fox's travel staff on suspicion he was feeding information to drug lords, the attorney general said Saturday.
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Federal agents arrested Mexican drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano-Felix off the shore of Mexico, nabbing the leader of a violent gang responsible for digging elaborate smuggling tunnels under the U.S. border, officials said Wednesday.
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Authorities on Sunday said they re-arrested the alleged mastermind of a 1997 massacre of 45 men, women and children in southern Mexico.
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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.