The Narcotics Police seized Guayas a new drug shipment at a port of Guayaquil. During an operation on Wednesday, officers discovered 119 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride packaged in blocks and hidden in the ‘Pallet’ (wooden supports) used to transport bananas. The cargo was stored in a container in a private marina. Read Article
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They grew just enough of the leaf, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of South America’s Andes region, to make tea and chew to combat high-altitude exhaustion. That changed in the 20th century, when the U.S. and European appetite for cocaine created an equally insatiable demand for the drug’s key ingredient. Coca harvests exploded, […]
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CONNECTIONS MADE BETWEEN ECUADOR – MEXICAN CARTELS – SHIPMENTS SENT FROM GUAYAQUIL IN LOADS OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS – DESTINATION BELGIUM. The undercover officers followed the steps you nine months. At that time, an agro-export company, based in Manabi, had reached a ‘record’ of exports. Last May, the commercial firm started exporting various agricultural products such […]
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A court in Guatemala on Tuesday authorized the extradition to America of the alleged higher local drug lord, while the Central American country hardens a crackdown on organized crime. John ‘Chamale’ Ortiz López, who was arrested in March 2011 and is kept under arrest in Guatemala, is charged in a Florida court for trafficking tons […]
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The drug trafficking organizations are increasingly using small groups of young people to transport their goods through the remote desert of Texas and New Mexico, federal agents said. Agents said that some of these young people who enter the country surreptitiously carry 50 pounds (23 kilos) of drugs for days, travel in groups of two […]
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A sophisticated clandestine laboratory for processing synthetic drugs was located near the Mexican indigenous community of Cheran (west), where in May the people took their own authority to block access to the people and prevent entry of organized crime, the military said Saturday. “The narcolaboratorio was located near the community of Rancho Seco, located within […]
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The seizure of just over $ 206,000 in cash, managed U.S. Customs officials to surprise an American woman trying to cross the shipment to Mexico.A public information officer for the U.S. authority in question reported that this occurred when conducting inspections in the immigration lines crossing the checkpoint Denis DeConcini. Read Article
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More than 4.5 tons of marijuana into bread was kidnapped this morning in a control operation in the Buenos Aires of Capilla del Señor, said sources with the Ministry of National Security. The operation “Sentinel” was held in on Route 193 to the 28.50 kilometer in a gallon located near a rural school and court […]
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The State Preventive Police (PEP) managed to secure five members of the criminal organization known as “La Familia Michoacana” who brought, as well as cartridges of high power, money, vehicles and a large quantity of drugs. In this important police operation, they were secured in total 16 kilos 324 grams of the drug known as […]
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Peruvian police captured the three Mexican Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, when they tried to travel to Mexico with 6.3 kilos of cocaine, according to the Anti-Drug Directorate (Dirandro) of the National Police. The three Mexicans were arrested when they went to board the same flight to Mexico City. Each had 2.1 kilos of […]
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San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. – Downloads several Venezuelans involved in a stash of cocaine, insufficient evidence to confirm or reduce the penalty imposed 30 years against foreigners by a court of Higuey. Those favored by the ruling are appointed Kene Mendez, Gustavo Arnaiz, Franklin Antonio Navy and Barbara Susan, all arrested on December […]
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A battalion of 800 soldiers from the center of the country is strengthening efforts to eradicate drug crops, interdiction of shipments of narcotics and special operations in southern Sonora from February 1, informed the commander of the Fourth Military Zone. Georges André Van Lissum Foullon said that strengthening the State arrived earlier this month and […]
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The whole fight against organized crime is on the agenda of a meeting Monday between President of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, and his Salvadoran Mauricio Funes, said Interior Minister Mauricio López Bonilla. “It is very important to all the mechanics of communication and coordination relationships allows us to have a joint agenda in terms of […]
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Extra newspaper print edition reported in the February 11th, 2012 edition a U.S. citizen was apprehended in La Libertad, Ecuador, during a routine police stop. According to the newspaper, Jack Daniel Malone Wallace aka James Martin Malone provided authorities an expired identification card from the United States. He was transported to a local police station […]
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More than six kilos (14 pounds) of methamphetamine were seized by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection in southern Arizona, and a Mexican was arrested, authorities said. Agents working in the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales referred to a man of 30 years for a secondary inspection of his SUV when he […]
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The president of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, said he would propose to the governments of Central America and the United States, “explore the possibility” to decriminalize drug trade as a strategy to stop drug trafficking. “The idea is to bring the issue to the table” with the Central American presidents during the next summit of […]
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The narcoavioneta was incinerated in Brus Laguna. Brus Laguna, Honduras A small plane found abandoned in the La Mosquitia, thank God, was destroyed yesterday by members of the Naval Forces of Honduras and the Directorate for the Fight against Drug Trafficking, DLCN. A source revealed that when the move was made to move the plane […]
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Five Ecuadoreans were arrested by policemen from the police station Bonola (Milan), accused of introducing 40 kilograms of cocaine in Italy by diplomatic bag, police said. This is the director and playwright Cristian Loor, Jorge Luis Redrobán, Julio Jesus Manor Toro and Jean Paul Flores, all residents of Milan, who were arrested two weeks ago […]
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The Spanish Ambassador Manuel Lobo Lejarreta announced Wednesday that his country will increase financial support for the fight against impunity in Guatemala through a commission established since 2008 by the United Nations for this purpose. During a ceremony, the diplomat said that “the act is a sign of commitment of the government of Spain to […]
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Colombian police today found 105 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a load of flowers would be sent to Paris, where the flower industry of early Andean country’s export drive for Valentine’s Day. The director of Ports and Airports of the Narcotics Police, Colonel Pedro Rafael Rodelo, told Efe that this is one of the first […]
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Six underground structures used by illegal armed groups for the production of alkaloids were destroyed by the army in various parts of the country. In a first action, soldiers of the Twenty-second Brigade located in rural areas of the town of Calamar, Guaviare, two handcrafted, inside which were hidden 120 gallons of sulfuric acid, 80 […]
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The Dominican authorities have been detected in the north of their territory Mexican drug cartel cells of Sinaloa, the ambassador said Wednesday during a congressional hearing Caribbean United States. Ambassador Anibal de Castro said when he appeared before the Senate committee for the international control of drugs, a Mexican named Luis Fernando Castillo Bertolucci confessed […]
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The Minister of Interior of Chile, Rodrigo Ubilla announced Friday that drones deployed to control its border with Bolivia and Peru, in order to prevent the passage of drug trafficking and smuggling. Friday, January 27, 2012. Chile-the-sum-to-country-that-fight-drug-intensified-in-the-borders-with-Bolivia Ref Photography: Frontera. The Plan, which aims to strengthen control of its three regions: Arica-Parinacota, Tarapaca and Antofagasta, […]
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Police and the Navy of Ecuador confirmed yesterday the seizure this week of more than one ton of cocaine hydrochloride in four shrimp located on the island of Puna, in the southwest. Between Tuesday and Thursday last, the authorities raided four shrimp, which was found in total more than a ton of drugs. Police said […]
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In the development of an operation by the police in the city of Popayan, reported the seizure of more than 500 000 drug smuggling that were stored in a warehouse and were distributed throughout the country. According to the official report, for the record to collection of contraband drugs were found, marked with stamps from […]
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In a report this afternoon before Congress, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) reported that at least 43 innocent people were killed in armed clashes in 2011 between the crime organized and law enforcement as part of the war on drugs waged by the government of Felipe Calderón. Raul Plascencia, owner of the agency, said […]
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Elements of the Mexican Army seized two narcolaboratorios Tlajomuco in the municipality of de Zúñiga, bringing the total to five such facilities dismantled so far this year. Through the Command of the 15 / a. Military Zone, the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) reported that the first laboratory was located on the ranch “The Gale” […]
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The Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, and his pair of Peru, Alberto Otárola, agreed today after a meeting in Bogota that both countries will increase joint operations and cooperation to cope with crime transnational border area between the two nations. “We will schedule joint and combined operations in coming months will be conducted, both […]
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A Mexican Army soldier was wounded police duties after a group of subjects threw two fragmentation grenades at the police headquarters town of Matamoros. The soldier, whose identity was not released, was hospitalized due to injuries he sustained and threatening his life. The assailants traveling in several vehicles from which threw the two grenades at […]
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A Brazilian drug dealer is giving free cocaine to addicts in exchange for tattooing his name on their body, police said Monday. About 70 people in the village of Itapetinga have tattooed the name “Freudenthal” in the body, authorities said in the northeastern state of Bahia. Read Article
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The Venezuelan government today deported three Colombian drug traffickers-one, one Canadian and Puerto Rican-requested third with Interpol red notice for Colombia, Canada and the U.S. respectively, and announced the capture of another required by Greece. Read Article
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Odalis Caldera, Secretary of Public Order and Security, said there are few reports received from the clubs because intoxicated people carry guns. “The owners of the premises allow entry of these people for fear of losing them as customers for fear of being attacked. Several procedures have recovered handguns that hide beneath the bars.” Those […]
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The first procedure was performed in the La Mina district of Santa Cruz, after detectives from the FBI in Santa Cruz conducted an intensive search in a private estate, alerted by residents of the area, finding in an inaccessible island five plantations of Cannabis Sativa, with a total of 456 plants to 2 meters 20 […]
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In less than a month there are four homicides that have rocked the region of Tarapaca, why Investigative Police, PDI, does not rule out that these acts were performed by bands of gunmen linked to drug trafficking which would be most minors. The common pattern that characterizes the criminal acts occurred in Iquique and Alto […]
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The governments of the United States, Brazil and Bolivia signed in La Paz yesterday finally to verify agreement with the UN as an observer, the destruction of illegal plantations of coca leaves to manufacture cocaine base, after several failed attempts to sign it for almost a year. Read Article
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Three suspected members of organized crime died in a confrontational fight with Mexico’s military in the municipality of Susupuato, Michoacan. According to cronica.com the fight lasted over 3o minutes and was followed by a car chase that ended when the escaping vehicle plummeted into a ravine. It is estimated that at least five other suspects […]
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All three bodies were without arms, without legs and without their heads. Three mutilated bodies were found in a grave drug in the Sierra de San Sebastian del Oeste, in the limits of the municipality of Puerto Vallarta. The bodies of three people are male and were mutilated, ie, they took away the legs, arms […]
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According to eluniverso.com, 28 years old Cesar Alfonso Flores was found dead in his prison cell in Garcia Moreno this Sunday afternoon 1/15/2012. Flores was found with several stab wounds, two stab wounds in the neck and four in the chest. According to official Jose Serrano, the alleged leader of assassins Cesar Alfonso Flores Sarzosa, […]
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One policeman was killed during a FARC attack in Algeria (Cauca), where a phantom aircraft flying over the area to support the work of the authorities against the guerrillas of the FARC.The attack comes from the Wednesday morning in the village of El Mango. The police commander in Cauca, Col. Ricardo Alarcon, said the guerrilla […]
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Peru’s attorney general, Jose Pelaez Bardales, has asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to consider returning to a visa requirement for Mexican citizens wishing to visit the country, a requirement that was eliminated in 2009. The reason, he explained, is the growing presence and activity of drug cartels in that country in Peruvian territory. According […]
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he Mexican traffickers continue to enjoy commercial success by introducing more drugs in the U.S., despite the country spent the last decade nearly 90 billion dollars in border security, reported on Friday a report from a coalition border. The report, prepared by the Texas Border Coalition (TBC), consisting of mayors, county officials and economic development […]
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Police discovered 21 minors during a lightning operation on a dangerous location in Bogotá, Colombia. According to eltiempo.com, they also arrested 4 individuals for drug possession and also confiscated weapons, IDs rented for criminal acts and other equipment. The police were also able to take down a site manufacturing adulterated alcohol. Read Article
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Mexico’s government allowed a group of undercover U.S. anti-drug agents and their Colombian informant to launder millions in cash for a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his Colombian cocaine supplier, according to documents made public Monday. The Mexican magazine Emeequis published portions of documents that describe how Drug Enforcement Administration agents, a Colombian trafficker-turned-informant and […]
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Tingo Maria – Huanuco Labs discovered in the area of the waterfall “Catarata Sol Naciente” which is located 300 meters from 3 de Mayo where a large number of both national and foreign tourists visit. Land in a police operation against trafficking interdiction of illicit drugs, agents Tactical Operations Group in Jungle (GOATJ), Unit-PNP DIRANDRO […]
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The Mexican Army spotted three clandestine laboratories for synthetic drugs in the western state of Jalisco where they seized more than four tons of narcotics and precursor chemicals, officials said. The Secretary of Defense (SEDENA) said in a statement that the January 4 soldiers found in the town of Tlajomulco de Zuniga a laboratory in […]
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President Hugo Chavez named a powerful general and close ally as his defense minister Friday, an officer accused by Washington of aiding drug traffickers and arming rebels in neighboring Colombia. Read Article
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At least 22 people were arrested in an operation to dismantle a criminal network dedicated to the introduction and distribution in Europe of cocaine and hashish from Colombia and Morocco, respectively. The Spanish Interior Ministry said the Civil Guard led the operation Thessaloniki, coordinated by Europol, which was dismantled criminal organization comprised of Spanish citizens, […]
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Two people arrested and seized three kilos of cocaine was the result of an operation in the parking lot of a mall in this city last Tuesday. The action performed by personnel of Narcotics and elite police groups was held at the Paseo Shopping, located on the November 4th Avenue, where Loor arrested Eduardo Cesar […]
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Peruvian State will strengthen its presence in the Amazonian Trapezium, in the frontier with Colombia and Brazil, aiming to face drug trafficking, which has gone up in said area, Peru’s national commission for the development of life without drugs (Devida) stated Thursday.Devida’s President Ricardo Soberon said that there is a strong multisectoral commitment to correct […]
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She takes over a month prey and Ambassador believes he is innocent. In cell 58 of the prison courtyard 5 of the Good Shepherd in Bogota over a month full Raphaela Nathalie Hofer, a young Austrian, 23, captured in the Eldorado airport with about 5 kilos of cocaine in his suitcase. Nathalie’s story would be […]
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In southern Florida, an elite group of U.S. attorneys is assigned a goal: to help disrupt the criminal gangs (BACRIM) in Colombia. In fact, the capture of 30 people this week in Colombia, linked to the organization of ‘Loco Barrera’ is the first result of this mission, which, according to the prosecutor for the Southern […]
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The border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua has become the new drug route. They loaded buses and trucks traveling from south to north, in the strategic post of Peñas Blancas, billed as the first (or last) border between Colombia and the United States. That is, one point that connects the north and south America. The […]
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Fear and anxiety seized dozens of residents of mountain communities of this county and its neighbor Uruachi, when they saw off planes full of armed men took over roads and trails, ostensibly to guard a new route to get shipments of marijuana and poppy produced in the Upper and Lower Tarahumara. “Since last week fell […]
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U.S. authorities on Tuesday acquired a new unmanned aircraft for tasks of high-tech surveillance overflights and the Arizona border, looking for drug traffickers and illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico.The Predator drone-B is located in the Security Operations Center Air National Sierra Vista, a few miles north of the border with Mexico to southeastern Arizona, the […]
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In the center historic district of Mexico City (Hidalgo(Donceles, Regina, Alameda)there are dozens of establishments that serve as bookstores by day. However, there is an underground of bars, cheap beer, drugs, and sex for a price operating in many of these establishments after dark until dawn. Read Article
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The Highway Police (Polka) today seized 45 kilos, 360 grams of cocaine base paste (PBC) and arrested a suspected drug dealer at the 1.020 mile road Cusco-Arequipa, Cusco in the province of Quispicanchi. During the review of the vehicle, the effects found in hidden compartments in the front 80 brick-shaped packages wrapped in packing tape […]
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The zones are marked. Each criminal group has a “square” (space for distribution and sale of narcotics) and nobody, absolutely nobody, can violate the other’s territory. If you do, sign your passport to death. There is no doubt that now these organized groups that handle the drug are acting more violent. While their victims have […]
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The Air Forces of Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras made “multinational exercise” aimed at controlling drug trafficking through the Caribbean, an official source said today. Colombia’s Air Force (FAC) indicated that the exercises, which began last December 16 and will end tomorrow, Wednesday, aims to “close the airspace of the Caribbean Sea to the flights of […]
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Today, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia passed 5 decrees in regulation of the Law of Victims to come into effect January 1st of next year. According to prensa-latina.cu, the reparations will particularly go to those planning to invest in education, living, or other productive endeavors. The law hopes to convince victims to cooperate with […]
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Federal agents and the Department of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will arrive in the coming hours to the Dominican Republic to inquire with the authorities here, the death of Puerto Rican pilot Santos Rodriguez Silk.It was learned also that the pilot’s family found dead yesterday, a company owned aircraft in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, […]
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Police took another blow to the organized mob to seize about half a ton of drugs intended to send from Manta abroad by sea. The operations carried out by elite groups such as the Unit for Combating Organized Crime (ULCO) and the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR) was held on Saturday in the parish of […]
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The top leader of the gang of “los machos” and three of his lugarteneintes, were captured in the last hours by the National Police in the department of Valle. This is known as “Penguin”, who became head of the band after falling into the hands of the authorities thirteen members of the organization last month […]
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Coca farmers say government’s lack of financial support forces them to work in the illegal drug trade.
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Elements of the Army discovered, near the border with Nogales, Arizona, a tunnel under construction, about 50 meters long, which claimed Friday with a gunman who was guarding him. The National Defense Secretariat reported that elements of the Military Zone 45, who were operating in Colonia Buenos Aires, they discovered the tunnel, which still had […]
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A total of 57 raids conducted in various parts of the south of Buenos, Buenos Aires policemen managed to seize a large quantity of weapons of all kinds, drugs ranging from marijuana to paco, and stolen cars, as confirmed by the Governor Daniel Scioli. The procedures were conducted by police personnel attached to the South […]
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Mexican soldiers seized 205 tons of a chemical precursor used for the manufacture of synthetic drugs in one of the Pacific Mexican ports from China, the government reported Thursday.The monomethylamine was found in 11 containers seized at various events during the first days of December in the port of Lazaro Cardenas (Michoacan, west), the attorney […]
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The representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs (UNODC), César Guedes said Thursday there is no evidence that Mexican and Colombian cartels in Bolivia, while the Interior Minister, Wilfredo Chavez, said the executive know an alleged report of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on the subject. “So far there were no clear evidence […]
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Charry got deported from Mexico after spending eleven years in prison for drug trafficking.This man became famous in the DMZ of the government of Andrés Pastrana to be the doctor of FARC, but also by being the liaison with Amado Carrillo ‘lord of heaven’, one of the most powerful drug traffickers on the continent. Read […]
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Tanja Nijmeijer on Wednesday granted an interview with Dutch public television. He said that illegal armed group remains strong despite the death last November of its top leader, Alfonso Cano. “The FARC go ahead without ‘Cano’, there have been many military actions after his death, which is a sign that we go ahead and that […]
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With visible signs of torture, his hands tied behind their backs and the “coup de grace,” staff attorney general and Sonora Medical Examiner exhumed the bodies of seven people, one of them beheaded, which were buried underground in a “peripheral narcofosa” the city of Nogales. “The rescue took place after a family walking in the […]
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Special Force to Fight (FELCN) seized at least 17 kilograms of cocaine in a laboratory crystallization of cocaine base found in the community of Morocoro (jurisdiction of Cabezas), a distance of about 122 kilometers south of the city of Santa Cruz. No one was arrested. Read Article
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The murder of Argentine Alejandro Fabian Gugliesi at the seaside resort of Guaruja Sao Paulo, which occurred on Saturday night, put the Brazilian police in a case that could be related to drug trafficking. The man, 40, was shot dead in a condominium home “Jardim Acapulco”, where he lived with a Colombian, who was also […]
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According to the National Survey of Addictions (ENA) 2008, in Jalisco lowered the prevalence of snuff from 27.5% to 21%, still below the national average, which is 23%, the Director of Epidemiological Surveillance System of the State Board of Control of Addictions in Jalisco (CECAJ), Luis Robles Javier Arellano. He indicated that passive smoking issue […]
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A joint operation between the State Preventive Police (PEP) and the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), culminated with the arrest of two individuals associated with organized crime, as they were caught with kilos of marijuana, firearms, cartridges and cash, also thanks to this arrest military elements managed to seize a ton of marijuana in Sonoyta. […]
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Military personnel said a clandestine laboratory to manufacture synthetic drugs during a raid in the town of Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, reported the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA). According to research, the events occurred in addressing a citizen’s report stating that in the Palo Colorado ranch were made illegal activities, dependence on a detailed statement. Read Article
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The head of the Police Anti-Drug Directorate (Dirandro), Dario Hurtado Cárdenas, would be to order the cessation of intelligence operations carried out from 2007 to capture the terrorist leaders Florindo Flores Hala ‘Artemio’ (which operates in the Alto Huallaga ) and Victor Quispe Palomino “Jose” (which is in the valley of the Apurimac and Ene […]
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Last September, the Metropolitan Council of Quito in the middle received the Minister for Coordination of Internal Security and the Interior, Homero Arellano and Jose Serrano, respectively, to explain that the main concerns on the issue of security are: the escalation of violence in the commission of the robbery at home, the appearance of unusual […]
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Some 6,500 Brazilian soldiers and ships supported by aircraft launched a major operation against illegal drug trafficking, weapons and goods at the borders with Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay, an official confirmed Thursday. Read Article
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Police and public prosecutor found bottles of herb Ayahuasca. When averaging the eight o’clock on Friday 25, in the facilities of the lodge (Espíritu de Anaconda)”Spirit of Anaconda”, located on the road penetration, Frenchman Fabrice Pierre Epiene (39), was found dead in a room within which they found several bottles of Ayahuasca brew, so authorities […]
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An anonymous tip alerted police have on a drug processing laboratory in the areas known as Hungal-San Ricardo, located between hills and Cumandá Pallatanga.Yesterday at 03:50 the soldiers discovered the lab to purify, synthesize, crystallize and recrystallize cocaine base. Read Article
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A soldier died and two were injured by a terrorist attack on the Union Mantaro base, located in the province of Huanta, Ayacucho. The attack by a column narcosenderista against military post was recorded about 12:45 pm today, according to the Joint Command of the Armed Forces (CCFFAA). Read Article
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He died mid-morning on Wednesday a man who was held at the Central Hospital of the Armed Forces after emergency surgery to extract several bags of cocaine brought into the stomach of Venezuela, some of which could not drive and therefore had surrendered to the authorities. The National Drug Control (DNCD), the agency confirmed the […]
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On Saturday morning, there was the elimination of about 12 000 poppy plants. The illicit cultivation of 5 acres, was located in the community Gustavo Iturralde, Canton Salcedo, Cotopaxi. The Fatherland Special Forces Brigade, along with the National Police Office and proceeded to eradication. Read Article
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If you or your firm are involved in foreign media monitoring, analysis or open source intelligence, this tool is designed for your needs. Unless you know what you are looking for you are hampered in your efforts to locate information. Crowder’s Blackbook will provide you the terms and phrases in Spanish and continually updated to […]
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Generaccion.com reported that an Australian tourist, Jeff Purcell, died of an apparent overdose while at a McDonald’s located in Miraflores, Lima, Peru on November 09, 2011. Apparently he went into convulsions and hit his head on the sink in the bathroom. He was dead when firefighters arrived at the scene. Reports indicated firefighters stated the […]
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The 421 kilos of marijuana were distributed in 17 bags and hidden in the boat 455, a convoy of the international company “ADM,” which was carrying soybeans and corn to the port of Nueva Palmira, Uruguay. Read Article
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Recently a report of the National Defense and Public Security Marina Federal Mexico revealed that only in 2011 four new groups have emerged of drug dealers. These groups seek to take control routes for drug trafficking and thus to expand their criminal activities in the country. The new gangs are the sign of the Knights […]
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A total of 2962 children, who were part of illegal armed groups in Colombia, were demobilized in the last nine years, revealed today the Colombian Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón. According to figures from the Program of Humanitarian Attention to the Demobilized (PADH) of the Government, in these 9 years, a total of 24,303 demobilized […]
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The family of Sincelejo merchant, John Alexander Mejia Gallego, extradited in May this year the United States, reported on his death in a Florida prison, and denounced the lack of medical care by the system, as responsible. John Alexander Mejia, 29, law student at a university in the capital of Sucre, was captured in May […]
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U.S. authorities have discovered Wednesday a tunnel of 370 meters used by traffickers to transport drugs from the Mexican city of Tijuana (Baja California) to the U.S. city of San Diego (California), as reported by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The discovery occurred after U.S. authorities arrested the two occupants of a truck that had […]
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Efectos incautados a las mafias del ocio nocturno en Madrid. 1 Photos The National Police dismantled given by mafia clans who controlled the nightlife within a much larger device launched in 2008 and has dealt a severe blow to organized crime in Spain. In total, as detailed on Thursday Directorate General of Police and Civil […]
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So said Wednesday the Armed Forces commander, General Alejandro Navas.The officer warned that if the new leader of the FARC is in the territory of another country, would go to diplomatic mechanisms to seek his arrest. “If you are in another country and we had knowledge through military intelligence, would come to my superior officer, […]
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Camouflaged as livestock, for a year and a half to process narcolaboratorio operated a methamphetamine, at Rancho San Francisco in Almoloya de Juarez, which was dismantled on Saturday morning by the Mexican Army and where did the arrest of a person originating Michoacan. Read Article
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Elite troops of the Mobile Rural Patrol Unit (UMOPAR) yesterday took control of a narcolaboratorio was found a day earlier in the Isiboro Secure park in Beni territory, after 20 hours of combat with Colombian drug traffickers. There they found the body of a sniper. Drug Trafficking. Take narcolaboratorio obtained yesterday in Santa Rosa del […]
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Marijuana crops were burned by the police drug The plantations were ready for harvest Police destroyed 15 hectares of marijuana in Chinchao In a well-posed and operating huge three-day, which mobilized more effective than thirty specialized Drug Tactical Operations Department (depot) of Tingo Maria, the police destroyed 15 hectares of marijuana (cannabis sativa) the variety […]
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The narcotics police destroyed 24 laboratories for processing cocaine base belonging to criminal gangs and guerrillas of the FARC and ELN, the official said on Monday. General Luis Alberto Perez, commander of the Narcotics Police, said at a news conference that the laboratories were located in the northern departments of Antioquia, Bolivar, Cordoba and Sucre, […]
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According to Eldiario.ec – on Thursday, November 10, 2011, journalist Christian Zurita was allegedly drugged with a substance known as scopolamine. Zurita, who currently works at the newspaper El Universo and faces trial for moral damage with President Rafael Correa, co authored the book “Big Brother”, said the only thing he remembers is that he […]
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