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Crime In Mexico
Chicago’s Public Enemy No. 1: Mexican drug kingpin Guzman
CHICAGO — A drug kingpin in Mexico who has never set foot in Chicago has been named the city’s new Public Enemy No. 1 — the same notorious label assigned to Al Capone at the height of the Prohibition-era gang wars.
Mexican beauty queen killed in shootout
CULIACAN, Mexico —A 20-year-old state beauty queen has been killed in northern Mexico during a running gun battle between soldiers and the gang of drug traffickers she was traveling with, officials say.
Mexico: 132 inmates escape from border prison
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a prison in northern Mexico on Monday, setting off a massive search by police and soldiers in an area close to the U.S. border.
Fitz Blog: South of the Border
In Mexico the voters handed the country back to the corrupt party that governed Mexico for 70-years. It’s a global weather story. The Arab Spring has given way to Mexican Summer and democracy’s dog days are back.
Arizona-based Sinaloa Cartel-linked cell busted
TEMPE — An elaborate drug trafficking cell in Tempe that is linked to the deadly Sinaloa Cartel from Mexico has been busted, officials say.
Report: Mexico seized 68,000 guns from US since 2006
WASHINGTON — The government says that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States.
15 tons of pure meth seized in Mexico
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Mexican troops have made a historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009.
People killed in Mexico drug war: 47,515
MEXICO CITY - Two decapitated bodies were found at the entrance to one of Mexico's most luxurious shopping malls on Wednesday and prosecutors announced that more than 47,000 people have been killed in drug violence in the five years since President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdo…
13 killed as Mexican drug cartels battle
VICTORIA, Mexico — Mexican soldiers have discovered 13 bodies in a truck left just outside the eastern state of Veracruz, along with a message that they were killed in a war between rival cartels, officials say.
Major drug ring busted in Arizona
TEMPE - Arizona authorities have arrested some 200 people, and seized $7.8 million in cash and more than 1,200 pounds of drugs following an investigation they say has dismantled an "extensive" drug trafficking cell tied to the powerful Sinaloa cartel, federal and state authorities announced …
Senate blocks gun-smuggling probes like ‘Fast and Furious’
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to effectively block the Justice Department from undertaking gun-smuggling probes like the flawed “Operation Fast and Furious” aimed at breaking up networks running guns to Mexican drug cartels but that lost track of hundreds of the weapons, some of whic…
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