Costa Rica U.S. stops hydroponic marijuana laboratory A Costa Rican court issued four months of preventive detention for an American arrested on suspicion of maintaining an advanced laboratory hydroponic marijuana production, reported local media on Thursday. The American, identified by the surname Sage-Rodger by the authorities, operated the laboratory in a house located in a […]
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Brazil Police on Thursday seized Bonfim Antonio Lopes, alias Nem, the drug kingpin “most wanted Rio de Janeiro” the sources said security force. Nem served as the leader of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio, in the southeast. Through a statement, the Brazilian police confirmed the arrest of Nem, 35, around midnight on Thursday “in […]
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The President Juan Manuel Santos, highlighted the results achieved by the institution in the fight against the guerrillas, criminal gangs and crime in the past 15 months. According to the president, from the August 7 last year the police have captured 1,247 fighters in total, and stressed that police operations have been neutralized as an […]
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70% of medicines sold in unauthorized warehouses would be false. Stores do not have formal providers such as pharmacies and opting to source from markets that sell adulterated or expired drugs.The head of the Executive Control of Medicines, Supplies and Drugs (DIREM) Manzanedo Gianina Cabal, reported that at least 70% of tablets that are sold […]
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The Navy reported yesterday the seizure, 50 miles off the coast of Cartagena, a semisubmersible capable of loading up a ton of cocaine. The ship’s captain, Andrew Vasquez, Chief of Naval Force in the Caribbean, said the seizure was possible thanks to a joint operation between the navies of the United States and Colombia. Read […]
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A woman was arrested Friday afternoon after she was found selling antibiotics out of her minivan trunk on a San Rafael street, police said. Around 12:30 p.m. police received a complaint about a woman selling items from the back of her car in the 300 block of Canal Street. When police arrived at the location […]
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Federal police say they’ve broken up an international drug syndicate after discovering 55kg of cocaine and methamphetamines in a shipment of beer from Mexico. The drugs, with an estimated wholesale value of up to $14 million, were concealed as liquid in 44 cartons of Cucapa beer in a shipment that arrived at the Port of […]
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The second phase of the investigation of white Ivory operating a deposit of 14 th Street neighborhood of La Colorada was surprising to the agents of the Special Force to Fight (FELCN), because they found cocaine hidden in export through tubes difficult to penetrate steel. A week ago in the same place, where a giant […]
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The National Police intercepted a shipment of 300 kilos of cocaine of high purity which belonged to the gang of ‘combo’. The drugs were hidden in a compartment immersed in the cooling system of a tourist bus. Upon inspection the bus, DIJIN staff discovered a mechanism by which packets of cocaine were driven one after […]
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In the different operations carried out last week to dismantle a drug gang attended by alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel found a white truck, PZP-531 plate, which was seen during the time of the surveillance operation “Pacific “. Hidden compartment located in vehicle used for drugs. No drugs located in the vehicle. Read Article
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NASA LAUNCH. The Argentine satellite SAC D, placed in orbit THIS YEAR. ITS IMAGES ALSO BE USED IN THE AREA OF SECURITY. Satellites used against drug traffickers and trafficking Enlarge If not enough is done from earth will have to try it from space. That seems to be the spirit of the agreement signed by […]
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Serious complaints about alleged threats from the self-styled criminal band ‘La Cordillera’ have been given in Pereira, where they assure that the members of this criminal group are forcing citizens to withdraw neighborhoods political propaganda. So says the senator and president of the Party of the U in Risaralda, Carlos Enrique Soto, who had expressed […]
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Although the Navy considers the semi-submersibles and “submarines” to transport cocaine and heroin as “death chambers” drug dealers every day looking for new technologies that allow them to circumvent national and international authorities. In 1993, the intelligence services of the Navy laid bare the first semi-submersible used to transport cocaine, Much time has passed and […]
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An Italian citizen died in Cusco for a respiratory cardiac arrest, probably because of the 103 cocaine hydrochloride(cocaine)pills inside his stomach, said sources with the Public Ministry. Roberto Palazzotti, 44, was admitted to the hospital emergency room Cusco Regional October 19, and died two days later. On Sunday they performed the autopsy determined the presence […]
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Gen. McCaffrey and Gen. Scales – Prepared Report for the Texas Department of Agriculture During the past two years the state of Texas has become increasingly threatened by the spread of Mexican cartel organized crime. The threat reflects a change in the strategic intent of the cartels to move their operations into the United States. […]
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The Sixth Region Secretary of the Navy Navy of Mexico, located in Manzanillo, in an operation involving more than 100 items, armored vehicles and a helicopter, secured in the town of Cerro de Ortega, a town of Tecoman, Colima, an arsenal and arrested six alleged members of the New Generation Jalisco cartel, which had been […]
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Colombia Police seized 9 tons of marijuana in the department of Cauca (southwest), which he said belonged to the Sunday Marxist FARC guerrillas and were to be transported to Central America. The drug was found on Saturday in a house in a rural area of Corinth (Cauca) and have a black market value of $ […]
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Nogalesinternational.com reported a Nogales woman was arrested Wednesday on charges that she tried to smuggle an animal tranquilizer that’s also used as a date-rape drug into the United States from Mexico.The unidentified 25-year-old woman was trying to enter the United States through a pedestrian lane at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry when U.S. Customs […]
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Crocodile is the new drug for the poor, and those who do not have the resources to pay for heroin.This new drug that would replace the ‘Paco’ is composed of codeine, mixed with gasoline, thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorus, this mixture will affect consumers because they can die in a period of three […]
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Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations seized 3,788 pounds of marijuana on the Tohono O’odham Nation on Friday, ICE announced Monday. Officers from HSI’s Shadow Wolves unit, which tracks smuggling activity, followed tire tracks from two vehicles through the desert near Ventana and found a pickup truck hidden in brush and […]
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Government authorities yesterday dismissed the presence in the country of international drug cartels hours after the death of a police Umopar in a clash with drug traffickers in a cocaine lab found in the Tipnis and after the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency U.S.) issued a report of its intelligence agencies that Mexican cartels have extended […]
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There are over 80 border crossings used by traffickers. Until the end of August there were 650 drug raids. Seized 25 tons of cannabis and arrested 42 people. 90% of prison inmates Candelaria are “mules”. At that time the Paraná mirror reflects only shade, water boatmen earn sheer necessity. Rowing load hurry and fear, unable […]
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The federal judge who succeeds to Eldorado Posadas, Jose Luis Casals, says there is a miscommunication of what is done in the area and swears he did well in the fight against drug trafficking, but said that the true origin of all there is defined in the Penal Code. “Drug trafficking is a cultural problem. […]
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Peru is at a critical time in their fight against drug trafficking to overcome for the first time in a decade in Colombia, which became the leading producer of pure cocaine, U.S. officials said at a legislative hearing in Washington. Appearing before the committee for the international drug control in the U.S. Senate, the intelligence […]
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302 At the Prosecutor’s Office with assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating the case of Petty Officer U.S. Navy Deion Lemar Burton, who was caught with 5.4 kilos of cocaine on 12 October in the El Dorado airport in Bogota. The arrest took place when the military, 26, and commission in Italy, was […]
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Federal environmental inspectors and elements of the State Police secured 139 and 343 heads of peyote birds of various species protected alleged, among other pieces, for 3 days of joint operation in 3 municipalities in the state. Also rose 6 minutes circumstances (with view to another federal authority) and 2 administrative proceedings (fines). Read Article
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An entrepreneur of 27 years, resident of San Jose, is the owner of the fishing vessel Miss Jacky Guard that the United States on Friday seized 250 kilos of cocaine in Pacific waters. Mojica’s wife name, is adjacent to the citadel of Puntarenas November 20 and owner of three other boats.The Miss Jacky was captured […]
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At about 7:30 yesterday a routine narcotics canine group Mariscal Sucre airport in the capital, allowed the discovery of about 82 packages of pure cocaine hidden in a false bottom in the roof luggage container number AKE 93,280 KL of the airline KLM. Read Article Read Artticle
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Speakers truck with 2.5 tons of chemical inputs in Tingo Maria,The Huallaga Police Front Chief, General Ríos Whitman reported that early Sunday, police intervened a truck with 2.5 tons of chemical inputs used in the manufacture of drugs, in Tingo Maria, Huanuco. The police chief explained that they captured three people: Read Article
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The owner of the Hacienda Louisiana located in the district of Santa Rosa in the VRAE, William Parodi, denied that their properties have appeared in red cloth with symbols of the hammer and sickle, alluding to the Shining Path, as some media Huamanga, Ayacucho. Read Article
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While the persistent rain fell on Tegucigalpa, the body of a young woman employee of the Tax Office, lay in a car, in a quiet street in the capital. It took more than five hours since he was gunned down by suspected assassins acting on a motorcycle, before the arrival of prosecutors and forensic to […]
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Spanish police arrested a young man who had come to Madrid from Bolivia in your body carrying 11 bags of cocaine mixed with oil, said on Sunday the Ministry of Interior. The woman, identified as BR Nely Cinda 24, was detained along with Carlos SC 34, who is charged in addition to an alleged illegal […]
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Colombian Counternarcotics Police deployed a major operation against the business of the criminal gang, Anti-Subversive Popular Revolutionary Army of Colombia, ERPAC, whose leader is Eberto Lopez Montero, alias ‘Caracho’, El Espectador reports. According to the official report, the “mega” laboratory, located in Guaracu, Meta, was used mainly for the processing of cocaine. Read Article
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The bloody eruption of Mexican-led cartels into Guatemala is the latest chapter in a vicious cycle of violence and institutional failure. Geography has placed the country – midway between Colombia and the U.S. – at one of the world’s busiest intersections for illegal drugs. Cocaine (and now ingredients for synthetic drugs) flows in by air, […]
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President Hugo Chavez proposed the discussion today in the National Assembly a bill providing for the shooting down of aircraft suspected of drug trafficking when they ignore the order to land. The Venezuelan leader said in a televised speech that the law would aim to discourage those flights in Venezuelan territory. Addressing deputies in a […]
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Emerging Threats and Security in the Western Hemisphere Press Release: US State Department Next Steps for U.S. Policy Testimony William R. Brownfield Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Washington, DC October 13, 2011 ________________________________________ As delivered Madam Chairman, Ranking Member, ladies and gentlemen of […]
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546 kilos of cocaine were hidden in false bottoms of two commercial vessels on the Atrato River, in the area of Tagachi in Chocó, The National Army reports. Apparently, the captures planned to take the drugs to Turbo, which would then be transported by sea to Central America and then to North America where it […]
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The complaint against Philip “Baron” was presented by Valter Drain Day Dos Reis, Brazil, owner of the ranch located in the area of Capitan Bado, which were found the two tracks underground. According to the complaint filed with the Public Ministry for the Brazilian citizen, on 17 September, at 10:00, received a phone call, a […]
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The night of September 1, from Dijin facilities in Bogota, deployed an impressive operation that involved over 350 police officers in three cities. Shortly before eleven o’clock at night General Oscar Naranjo gave the green light for the Special Investigation Unit gave the final blow. If they had achieved success disrupt that night, four powerful […]
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Ambassador in Mexico, Belize, Rosendo Antonio Urbina Baptist, acknowledged that crime and organized crime have largely overcome the security forces on the border commissioners of both countries, which has motivated crimes such as trafficking of people, drugs and weapons are kept. Read Article
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Having done research work where they were seized 460 kilos of cocaine in the boat Juergen Schulte on Saturday night, Major General of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Miguel Vivas Alcides Landino, head of the National Drug and Gen. Edilberto Molina, deputy director of the National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) reported that the Bolivar state ranks […]
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The sleepy port towns, mangrove swamps and jungle airstrips of poorly defended, tiny Belize are becoming prime gateways for drug trafficking as Mexico’s billionaire mafias carve out new smuggling routes through Central America.Using light aircraft and ultra-fast boats, traffickers are moving more and more South American cocaine through Belize into Mexico, U.S. narcotics agents and […]
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The Colombian Army found and seized Monday from a stash of 546 kilos of cocaine and arrested 8 crew of two vessels that plied the river Atrato in Chocó (northwest), sources with the institution. The cocaine was hidden in false bottoms of the boats that plied the waters of the area of the small town […]
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The murders are increasingly chilling. They seek to intimidate and cause a greater impact. The concern is that citizenship is becoming insensitive to the cruelty of the narcos. The brutal murders in public that began 5 years ago have worsened as cartels try to match what the other in their quest to intimidate rivals, authorities […]
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A surprise operation conducted by the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR) of the Police, on a farm located in the canton of Pichincha, Manabi, did the arrest of seven alleged members of the band Los Choneros. Read Article
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Troops of the Task Force to Combat Drug Trafficking (FELCN) discovered in recent days new forms of drug delivery attempts at international airports in the city of El Alto and Santa Cruz. On October 3, police found drugs at the airport in El Alto 3 kilos 322 grams of cocaine hidden neatly in the middle […]
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Officials from the Regional Intelligence Unit Drug Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) were able to detect 478 kilos of suspected high-purity cocaine on board Juergen Schulte anchored in the port of Ferrominera Orinoco in Ciudad Guayana, Bolivar State. The 478 kilos corresponded to 354 packages hidden in a compartment of the ship’s engine room with Spanish […]
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In carrying out offensive operations in Antioquia, Meta, and Caldas, Army troops were uncovered three caches clandestine weapons, explosives and materials for the manufacture of alkaloids belonging to the Farc criminal gangs and drug trafficking.Initially, in the village gardens, city of San Francisco, Antioquia, units Mechanized Cavalry Group No. 4 ‘Juan del Corral’, located a […]
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The Mexican Army seized over 358 kilograms of cocaine valued at $ 11 million in the illicit market. The seizure took place in a colonial home in this city Otay Vista. The commander of the Second Military Zone, Briseno Gilberto Landeros, explained that it is the largest seizure that has been done on this border […]
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In the first fifteen days of September six foreigners have been detained for trying to transport cocaine from Buenos Aires to Qatar via mules. Those arrested are from Europe, South Africa, and Nigeria. according to lanacion.com.ar. Sources affirmed, they allegedly ingested cocaine capsules (liquid cocaine dissolved with solvents similar to nail polish remover) wrapped in […]
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Extortions, hit-men, and drug trafficking are the main contributers of violence in the port-town of Tumaco, El Pais reports. Despite this, authorities assure that the problem is decreasing; yet, locals disagree with that statement. For the last few months ago the community has been run by armed men that decide who deserves to live, who […]
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Police of Catalonia in Spain arrested five people who allegedly were involved in transporting cocaine from Uruguay seized 3.3 kilos and those of the drug. The first two arrests were made in El Prat airport in Barcelona, when two of the now arrested had just arrived on a flight from Uruguay. Read Article
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FARC’s Black Pearl could not make its first trip in the Colombian Pacific, El Colombiano reports. The narco-submarine was built out of fiberglass and steel and was able to navigate itself 4 to 5 feet under water and could carry up to four tons of cocaine. According to the anti-narcotics police, this is the second […]
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Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos will send more troops to the country’s two southern provinces Narino and Cauca following a recent surge in drug-related violence. Santos said the number of armed forces in Narino, which is home to about 50 percent of Colombia’s illicit coca production, will be increased to 3,353 from 2,780 during the […]
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In Argentina, 15 kilograms of illegal substances are found being distributed via coach buses. Six people were detained on Monday, September 26, for distributing drugs in long distance buses (coach) and selling them in the Argentine province of Corrientes and throughout Buenos Aires. According to terra.com.ar, these individuals are presumed to be members of an […]
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The sale of drugs, vehicle theft, robbery and assault people in shops are the crimes that affect the citadel Sauces, located in the north of Guayaquil. This sector is divided into nine stages of which, according to its residents and the police, the most contentious are the 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9. Read Article
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The Government of Guatemala announced today that borrow for almost $ 170 million to Brazil for the purchase of six Super Tucano aircraft, radar and other equipment for the fight against drugs in this country, bridge of the drug that reaches the U.S. from South America. Read Article
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On 16 October 2010, the agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Darryl Galaway reported to the National Drug Control (DNCD) in the country operated an “international drug trafficking, with branches in Colombia Aruba and the United States, which used a boat identified as Tomahawk. ” Galaway established routes used by drug dealers to distribute […]
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Colombian anti-narcotics police located and neutralized a modern submersible in the small town of Condoto, Choco, in Western Colombia, reports El Esperctador. The submersible, valued at 2 million US dollars, had a capacity to transport between 4 and 5 tons of cocaine. Anti-narcotics director, Carlos Enrique Rodriguez Gonzalez noted that the operation was achieved with […]
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National Guard troops stationed in the fixed control point The Quebradona, Pan-American highway in the municipality Tulio Febres Cordero Merida state and assigned to the third platoon of Company Detachment second number 16, on the evening of Thursday 22 September a random verification procedure achieved the seizure of 2 000 745 as panela packaging marijuana. […]
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Tens of thousands of classified documents from Colombia’s intelligence agency have been sold to illegal armed groups, foreign governments and drug traffickers, according to the Colombian magazine La Semana. The massive sale of secret documents by agents working for the state intelligence agency, known as DAS, is the largest intelligence leak in Colombia’s history, the […]
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A former top Bolivian anti-drug official has been sentenced to 14 years in a US prison in a cocaine trafficking case that proved a major embarrassment for Bolivian president Evo Morales. Retired General Rene Sanabria, a former head of Bolivia’s leading counter-narcotics unit, pleaded guilty in June to charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into […]
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The Ministry of the Interior, through the National Police, is blocking all possible routes of entry and exit of supplies and drugs in the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene Rivers (VRAE), today announced the headline of this portfolio, Oscar Valdés. The Interior Minister, Oscar Valdes led the burning of more than 6 tons of […]
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This act added five tracks destroyed since last August, four of which are located in the Llanos and said entity in Anzoátegui state, a total of 41 clandestine airstrips located in 2011 used for drug trafficking, located between the rivers Siunaruco and Meta, Apure state, south of the country, reinforcing the fight for a territory […]
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Rodolfo Rubio Salas is a professor and researcher at the Juárez City campus of Colegio de la Frontera Norte where he has been for 16 years. He specializes in border migration studies and affirms that behind all the numbers about the violence-propelled exodus of people from Juárez into El Paso there is a lot of […]
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For the second time in less than a week, was discovered a large shipment of drugs, which tried to enter from Argentina to Chile through one of the crossings of the Araucanía. More than 65 kilos of drugs were hidden in packages and cylinders in the back seat of a car and a rear bumper […]
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The Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has accused U.S. today of “blackmailing the world” in the fight against drug trafficking and being both a promoter of trade and consumption of narcotics. “If someone has failed and, rather than failure, have become promoters of the drug culture, violence, trafficking and consumption there is, in America,” Maduro […]
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Drug traffickers in Mexico and the U.S. are trading marijuana from the neighboring country to country, so the Mexican army has intensified review of foreign vehicles, including those who come to visit, said the commander of the Second Military Zone, Gilberto Landeros Briseño. Confirmed that after a seizure that was made to an American at […]
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Thirty Costa Ricans remain detained in prisons in Spain, after being captured by police in that European country because the drug drawn off from here. Ubaldo Garcia, Consul of Costa Rica in Spain, said most of those Ticos, who served as “mules”, fell at the airport Barajas, Madrid, between the clothes bring cocaine into the […]
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According to Canal N, there are two dead soldiers and one seriously injured was the outcome of a narco-terrorist attack against an army helicopter in the district of San Martin de Pangoa in VRAE. Read Article
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The drug scene is still dominated by American groups or clans, a trend that is accentuated each year and which echoes the Senior Prosecutor of Cantabria in his Report for 2010. Also detected the phenomenon of the proliferation of laboratories for growing marijuana. Recent years are marked in the world of drug trafficking by a […]
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The Governor of Chiriqui and the security sectors of the province ordered the closure of hundreds of illegal steps on the border of Panama with Costa Rica, to curb smuggling, trafficking in arms and persons, to give more security to the area, confirmed the governor of the province, Aixa Santamaría. Read Article
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At the beginning of his presentation, argued that there Soberón inconsistencies and double standards in its position regarding the fight against drug trafficking. “If we continue with the current policy on drugs, we have in 2016 about 70 thousand hectares of coca and 330 metric tons of cocaine hydrochloride,” he said.Read Article
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Fear and anxiety seized dozens of residents of mountain communities of this county and its neighbor Uruachi, when planes were full of down gunmen who took over roads and trails, apparently to guard a new route to get shipments of marijuana and poppy produced in the Upper and Lower Tarahumara. “Since last week fell (landing) […]
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murder became the leading cause of death among the country between 2007 and 2009, a trend that overtook the car accident that for years were the leading cause of deaths in this population group, according to figures released by the violent deaths National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). Between 2007 and 2009 the murder […]
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The prosecutor of the State of Mexico, Alfredo Castillo Cervantes, reported the arrest of seven members of The Knights Templar participated in the multihomicidio of six men in a house in Chichester on Friday. The killings were “a settling of scores between a group dedicated to the sale and distribution of drugs and other consumers, […]
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Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, said Monday that presidential orders seek to meet with their counterparts in Venezuela and Ecuador to seek a cooperative approach: “The order is dialogue with my counterparts in Venezuela, Ecuador and other nations and obviously expect to work in a cooperative attitude, that’s the attitude we have and that’s the […]
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Los Zetas, with traffic of drugs, kidnapping and extortion of money as casinos and betting sites, have occupied at least one third of the territory of Nuevo Leon, according to the operational files of the Federal Police. The corporation has verified the active presence of the arm in 17 of the 51 municipalities that make […]
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The smoking prevalence in the neighborhoods of records exceeds the provincial capital. Also detected high levels of alcohol, marijuana and tranquilizers. Prepare plans to intervene with NGOs in each area. 738 people participated in surveys on drug abuse that took place in 7 of the Caps Capital. Read Article
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Elmeridianodecordoba.com.co reported that law and order situation in the department has become a source of conflict between local and national authorities, for while Gov. Martha Sáenz Correa wields a figure of 356 dead at the hands of criminal gangs in so far year, the former Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera from Bogota said at the […]
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The National Police who dealt crushing blow to the structures of the Southern Bloc of the FARC, captured in downtown Neiva, Cesar Polanco Cerquera, aka “Polo” or “Polanía.” The report said according to research by an interdisciplinary team of the institution, led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (DIJIN), this individual acted as […]
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Cocaine seized in maritime interdiction operation After a chase by sea and air units of the Navy and the Air Force, with support from the army and police seized 88 kilos of cocaine were transported in a wooden boat in the area of Arboletes – Antioquia, Coveñas 80 nautical miles. The boat named “Muga” was […]
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The Brazilian Army today sent 11 riflemen and 100 armored vehicles to the favelas of Complexo do Alemao, Rio de Janeiro, where an intense gun battle between troops of this force and drug traffickers last night left a teenager dead and injured adult.Ana Lucia da Silva, 15, died after being shot in the head during […]
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Locate and drug trade arsenal located in Zacapa. An arsenal variety of drugs and ammunition seized by the authorities on Monday during a raid that took place in a car wash located on the 3rd. Street in Zone 1 of Zacapa, in the Neighbourhood Centre. Authorities believe the arsenal belonged to the ZetasRead Article Spanish
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laopinion.com, reported he driver of an ambulance, health department official was discovered on Thursday afternoon while transporting 45 kilos of coca base on the road-Cucuta El Zulia. The driver, who wore a vest Medical Mission, tried to evade the roadblock set up by men of the Metropolitan Police, in Cucuta. However, after a chase was […]
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he sign directed by Tomas Rojas Cañete, alias “Toma’i” is perhaps the most powerful operating on the border with Brazil.The operational structure of the organization is run by his brother Marcos Rojas Cañete, who allegedly manages the group’s money and the right arm of the drug czar. Read Article
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Staff police seized a motorcycle taxi That low of intelligence information that, It Was Used for basic folder cocaine distribution in the form of “delivery” in Tingo Maria to Different parts on all the areas in Alameda and Plaza de Peru weapons. Read Article
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The former pilot and filmmaker Enrique Pineyro warned two months ago in an interview with THE GAZETTE “for pilots, flying the north is potentially dangerous clandestine flights are a threat. It is a scene often must cross drug planes.” Read Article
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To the ‘strengthening’ of the military strategy in the area VRAE (Ene River valleys of Apurimac and) some drug dealers have migrated to this region to start a new drug route and that, in two separate intelligence reports, the Police Drug Cajamarca has already dubbed as the ‘small’ VRAE. According to narcotics agents require the […]
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Report a nexus of narco network at airports Facilitators. Univision Miami, says police operating in airports allow the drug to exit aircraft from Bolivia to America.The U.S. network Univision and opposition MPs claim that in some airports nationwide carrier networks exist that facilitate the activity of drug trafficking in Bolivia.From a report by the U.S. […]
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Colombia announced the destruction of 10 clandestine airstrips Colombian police on Saturday presented to the press 23 of the detainees, some of them pilots of aircraft. At least ten were clandestine airstrips used by Colombian drug organization Daniel “Loco” Barrera for sending drugs to the U.S. will be destroyed in Colombia and Venezuela, Colombian police […]
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Colombian police said they have seized 2.2 tonnes of cocaine that was buried in a northern desert and which has a street value of $65 million. The drugs were found in 87 waterproof sacks several feet (metres) beneath the arid La Guajira department in the far north, a coastal province bordering Venezuela. Read Article
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The narco-understood as a series of attacks by armed groups linked to drug trafficking against civilians, defenseless, with the dual purpose of damaging physically, mentally and materially innocent, and at the same time cause the greatest possible negative impact on a massive scale- , had his breakthrough in our country with the grenade in the […]
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United States allows Mexican police launched operations against the drug cartels from its territory as part of the expansion of bilateral cooperation, revealed on Friday an article in the New York Times. “Mexicans have traveled quietly commands the United States, meet in designated areas and launch missions in helicopters across the border directed against suspected […]
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Extortion (la vacuna) is not a new scourge in Medellin and Valle de Aburrá. The “vaccine” is used for years as a way of financing illegal armed groups and common criminals. Transporters and traders are among the most affected unions. And in the midst of this illegal pressure, the average citizen suffers the humiliation of […]
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Cozumel, Mexico. Two tourists from North America who tried to introduce marijuana on a cruise last week were referred to the Attorney General of the Federation (FPF) for crimes against health. Elements of the 23 Battalion of the Marines apprehended and handed over to the appropriate authority. Read Article
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An American woman, a resident of the colony Norberto Ortega, was arrested with four types of drugs, a gun and cartridges, plus it was done accompanied by two minors, who also was charged with corrupting minors. Minnie Garcia, 39, who was apprehended Friday by agents of the State Public Security Police (PESP) outside his home […]
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Wheelchair, bicycle frame, gas tanks in vehicles, stomach, private parts, CPU, air compressors, dissolved in rum, disposable diapers, rubber sandals, furniture, jars, souvenirs, pillars, roof and container bays , hem pants and lined books are among the dozens of tactics used by traffickers to bring drugs into the country and enter. Read Article
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For the fifth time this year, Mexican police have found the body of a local mayor. On Saturday, it was discovered that Jose Eduviges Nava Altamirano, the mayor of a small town in the Guerrero state called Zucuaplan, was kidnapped and murdered, presumably by a drug cartel. Read Article
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