Former Mexican Governor Could Face U.S. Drug Trial
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MEXICO CITY, June 21 -- A former Mexican governor accused of involvement in drug trafficking was arrested Thursday and is awaiting possible extradition to the United States.
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Former NL Most Valuable Player Ken Caminiti is due back in a Houston courtroom Tuesday because of an alleged positive drug test that would be a violation of his probation for cocaine possession.
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When accused drug kingpin Francisco Javier Arellano Felix began planning a deep-sea fishing trip more than a year ago, federal drug agents also got ready &#151; to catch their prey.
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A federal judge in Miami paved the way for the former Panamanian leader to face money laundering charges.
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The ex-president of Peru is facing multiple-court proceedings. Already found guilty of abuse of power, he faces murder charges that could see him in prison for 30 years
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether the federal courts must give a hearing to a Mexican inmate on Texas's death row who says the state violated international law by trying him on murder charges without first notifying Mexican diplomats who might have helped him.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- A lawsuit to be unsealed Wednesday in a U.S. District Court in Maryland seeks civil damages against Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada -- the former president of Bolivia now living in exile in Chevy Chase -- for allegedly presiding over a 2003 government crackdown that left 67 civili...
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By Dale Quinn, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 14--Former Marana Mayor Bobby Sutton Jr. and businessman Richard A. Westfall will go on trial Feb. 6 to face federal extortion charges.   The defendants and their attorneys met before U.S.
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In the latest twist in Mexico's war on drug trafficking, a senior member of President Vicente Fox's staff has been arrested over possible links with a drugs gang, Mexico's attorney general said on Saturday.
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A trial for an alleged Mexican drug kingpin accused of smuggling as much as six tons of cocaine a month into the U.S. has been postponed until later this year.
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TLAXCALA, Mexico  - The former ruling party had an  early lead late Sunday in state gubernatorial elections across  Mexico as the party tried to build on a bid to retake the  presidency in 2006.
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An ex-naval officer from Argentina accused of killing political prisoners during the country's "Dirty War" is going on trial in Spain on Friday.
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Mexican authorities have arrested a reputed major figure in one of Colombia's largest and most feared drug cartels responsible for nearly half of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, U.S. officials said Friday.
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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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His extradition sets a legal precedent that could be applied to Bolivia's ex-leader, now living in the US.
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The capture of suspected drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano Felix is unlikely to deal a death blow to the Tijuana cartel that bears his family name, partly because his reputation had little to do with his leadership abilities, experts said.
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WASHINGTON -- The road to Alberto Gonzales&#39; confirmation as the first Hispanic US attorney general might run through two controversial places: the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Texas&#39; Death Row.