Spain-noticias.com reported that tons of illegal drugs through the area have upped the ante in terms of the violence that shadows often very lucrative organized crime, and here, in clashes between drug rings Brazil and Paraguay. “The deaths you see are Mexican style. There are headless bodies, severed arms, bodies burned alive, “he said. “We […]
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Reported by sdpnoticias.com….”We have documented evidence that traffickers Salvadorans have a clear link with different structures operating in the region, including major drug cartels, including Los Zetas”. “All business is primarily controlled by Mexican drug cartels,” said Rocio Rodriguez, executive director of Alliance for Your Rights, an organization that fights sexual crimes that plague Central […]
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Bloomberg.com reported that Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. was accused by the buyers of its laboratory furniture factory in Reynosa, Mexico, of failing to disclose that the plant was “under siege” by the Gulf Cartel. OpenGate Capital Group LLC accused Thermo Fisher of fraudulent misrepresentation among other claims in a complaint filed yesterday in federal court […]
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‘Operation 75’ Arrests 70 Suspects Responsible for Crimes in Sergipe, Brazil Globo reported on May 9, 2013 that ‘Operation 75’ arrested 61 people and seven teenagers accused of committing crimes such as murder, robbery, and drug trafficking in Sergipe, Brazil. ‘Operation 75’ required the use of 500 civilian police and military officials, 210 arrests and […]
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Two Men in Ipatinga, Brazil Detained for Drug Trafficking Activity Globo reported on May 10, 2013 that two men were arrested in Ipatinga, Brazil for allegations of drug trafficking involvement in the region of Minas Gerais. The two suspects were detained after a high-speed car chase. The Military Police seized a pound and a half […]
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Police in Sao Luis, Brazil Arrest Thirty-Five People for Drug Trafficking Globo reported on May 9 2013, that thirty-five people were arrested by the Civil Police to counteract drug trafficking operations in Sao Luis. The operation was part of a greater mission to combat drug trafficking throughout the country. The interdiction in Sao Luis was […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that Manuel de Jesus Acosta Alvarado, Mexican apprehended Monday in the canton Santa Rosa, El Oro, in a police operation called Flurry, would be the head of a criminal drug-trafficking gang linked to the Sinaloa cartel, which last January was operating in the country and relationship with his countrymen would arrested on May […]
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On April 30, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that it arrested a man near Ourinhos, in the state of São Paulo, on the Trans-Brazilian Highway (BR-153). Police found close to 137 kilograms of marijuana packages hidden in a false bottom in the pickup truck. The man claimed he picked the drugs up in […]
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On April 30, 2013, D24AM reported that two people were arrested earlier this week and charged with drug trafficking in Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas. Luana Barros da Rocha, 20, and her 17 year-old boyfriend (not identified) were arrested after their home was suspected of being a haven for drug dealing. Police found […]
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On April 29, 2013, Jornal do Comércio reported that police in the Brazilian northeast have eradicated close to 400,000 marijuana plants in the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas. Federal Police conducted operations near twelve cities in Pernambuco, and two in Alagoas. In all, the plants amounted to nearly 143 tons of potential marijuana. Close to […]
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The investigations into the operation “Athens” reveal that trafficking organizations have a collection center in Rio Sol urbanization, located in the citadel Eucalyptus.Gustavo Teran, head manager of the Zone Six Police said the van was stopped early Tuesday heading to the said private development, then dispatch the alkaloid to the Guayas and from there by […]
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CSmonitor.com reported….After sweeping US budget cuts, the Pentagon is testing new tools to stop drug trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean: a blimp tethered to the back of a boat and a hand-launched drone. Although traffickers employ sophisticated submarines and build unique tracking systems, they still throw bundles of cocaine out of small planes, stash […]
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Former guerrillas of the FARC guerrilla organization abandoned this seemingly would provide military training drug traffickers in that country to avoid the control of the authorities and care for crops. This was revealed by the Bolivian Vice Minister of Social Defense, Felipe Cáceres and the newspaper El Deber reported on its website. The information submitted […]
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Officials of the National Guard (GNB) seized 1,012 kilos of marijuana in the state of Apure. The drug, from Colombia, was transported by boat on inland waterways in the border region. The Minister of Interior and Justice (MIJ), Nestor Reverol information reported through his Twitter @ NestorReverol. The seizure occurred at the border of Puerto […]
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On April 17, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that two men were arrested in Paranhos, 469 kilometers from Campo Grande and on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. Originally police wanted Leonardo Rocha Gonçalves, 22, on a robbery charge; but upon his arrest, they found additional evidence linking him to Edmar Alegre da Cunha, 28. […]
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On April 17, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that police near the federal capital of Brasília seized 60 kilograms of cocaine from a truck traveling on federal Highway BR-020. The arrest was made in Formosa, in the state of Goiás, just across the border from the Federal District (DF). The motorist informed the […]
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Major drug trafficking organizations controlling retail sales of small quantities of drug sales in Quito Ecuador. Drugs are being distributed door to door via motorcycles with empanada boxes to disguise drugs. Elcomercio.com reported that the empanadas were divided into houses, but deliveries were ‘normal’. Behind these operations was one international network microtráfico hide wearing buns […]
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On April 13, 2013, Mais Goiás reported that police in the Brazilian city of Goiânia arrested a woman at the city’s airport after they found 50 kilograms of marijuana in her bags. The drugs were discovered as the bags passed through the X-ray machine. According to police, the woman was contracted from Belém do Pará […]
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On April 15, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that authorities seized a large quantity of marijuana over the weekend in the state of Paraná. Police made three separate seizures, the first a 233 kilogram find in Campo Mourão, less than three hours from the Brazil-Argentina border. Police gave chase when the driver sped […]
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On April 15, 2013, Diário do Pará reported that the Federal Highway Police (PRF) seized a large van in Santa Isabel, on BR-316, carrying some 50,000 packs of illegal cigarettes. The driver, 49 year-old Jonas Gomes de Souza, was not authorized to drive the van. He informed police that he was to receive around R$200 […]
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On April 14, 2013, NE10 reported that authorities in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco made the biggest single drug bust of the year so far in the state, seizing some 209 kilograms of marijuana. The drugs were discovered in the town of Floresta, in the interior of the state. Two men were arrested and charged […]
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On April 10, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that authorities had a busy Tuesday on the highways in the state of Minas Gerais, seizing over 250 kilograms of marijuana, 100 kilograms of cocaine and derivatives, and hundreds of thousands of Brazilian reais (R$). In one noteworthy incident in Araxá (BR-262), police arrested a […]
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The discovery of what would be a mini-lab where drug was processed, held last Friday Ecuadorian Army personnel and the National Police on the road Portovelo-Loja. After being discovered the fact during the operation, and at least 2 miles from where was the minilab, were found Fal type rifle, a Mauser rifle, two submachine guns […]
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Elcomercio.com reported that the operations were performed between Esmeraldas and Sucumbios. In the last 10 days, the military seized from drug to fuel, firearms and explosives in those border areas. Even the soldiers found a field of four acres with about 8500 coca plants. In this last operation soldiers intervened three detachments. It happened last […]
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MARISCAL – LARGE TOURIST AREA LISTED Elcomercio.com reported that follow-up lasted seven months. At that time, the undercover unit Combat Organized Crime (ULCO) tracked the criminal organization run by Oscar A., an alien who was wanted by the International Police (Interpol). Information sent from Colombia revealed that the suspect escaped in 2006 from a prison […]
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Colombia’s navy seized 1,181 kilos of cocaine that were transported in a national flagged fishing the Pacific to Central America, and arrested the seven crew. The boat was intercepted 20 nautical miles west of Isla Gorgona. Possibly left the port of Buenaventura, in the province of Valle del Cauca. Read Article
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11.2 kilos of cocaine were seized in Tachira, more than 30 kilos of marijuana in a vehicle that was traveling from Nairobi to Guárico state, also seized 637 kilos of marijuana on Highway Carora-Barquisimeto / Incinerated over 270 kilos of various drugs in Merida. Read Article
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On April 9, 2013, Mais Goiás reported that three men were arrested today and charged with interstate drug trafficking. They were arrested near a car wash in Itumbiara, Goiás, that specializes in washing buses and large trucks. The men had been using the car wash as a base to deal drugs. What tipped the officers […]
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pedrojuannews.com reported that agents of the 9th Commissioner of the colony Chieriguelo and anti narcotics agents of the National Police Amambay, arrested two youths with a load of marijuana in the 5th General Bernardino Caballero route. The two arrested were identified as Jose Augusto Martinez Pana (26) and Daniel Pavon Camping (25) who were on […]
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The National Anti-Drug Secretariat ensures June 2012 to March this year, has caused a loss of over $ 200 million for drug traffickers. During that time, the 261 ran Senad interventions throughout the country, with actions to eradicate marijuana crops and constant attacks to micro. In nine months in office have made record seizures, as […]
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WANTED DRUG TRAFFICKER DETAINED The Anti-Drug Operations Department of the province of Puerto Inca, Huanuco region, seized several weapons reaching after clashing with about 20 drug dealers in the area where you found Quebrada Llorona a runway of 1000 meters approximately to aircraft and ship drugs to abroad. Read Article
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On April 4, 2013, Alagoas 24 Hours reported that a pair of high school students were arrested in the town of Marechal Deodoro, Alagoas state, after police found them at the door of their school with marijuana. The marijuana, police discovered, had been hidden in an adapted chassis within the Honda Biz motorcycle. Upon discovery, […]
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According to noticias.uol.com.br African gangs; primarily Nigerians, are using postal services in Brazil, to smuggle small amounts of cocaine to countries such as Spain, China, and the United Kingdom, where overseas operating networks have expanded the illegal trade. Due to Brazil’s strategic location with neighboring cocaine-producing countries, in addition to its frequent flights to Europe, […]
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Value placed at 6 million dollars, suspected shipment from Colombia in route to Guayaquil A police operation ended with the intentions of two men, who were transporting almost 128 kilos of cocaine. The drug was hidden in the bucket of a truck ICD-371 plates. James N., and Alex S. were arrested. The incident occurred around […]
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On April 2, 2013, Midiamax reported that the Brazilian Army is initiating a project in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul to combat drug and arms trafficking along the Brazil-Paraguay border. Approximately 50 soldiers will be deployed in Mato Grosso do Sul, and their route will include roughly 600 kilometers of roads and waterways. […]
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On April 3, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that authorities seized a cache of weapons and drugs in Cuiabá, capital of the state of Mato Grosso. Among the weapons, police found a military-grade, Israeli-made rifle restricted in Brazil for use by armed forces. They also found 50 kilograms of cocaine base. The motorist […]
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univisionamerica.univision.com reported that Mexican cartels are sending some of their best members to live and work in the United States, strengthening its presence to enhance its control over the lucrative drug market in the world and increase profits, experts say. An extensive review of cases before the courts and government agencies information, interviews with senior […]
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On March 28, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that it seized a shipment of over 3,000 bullets and other munitions headed for Rio de Janeiro. The seizure was made after police stopped a car on the Trans-Brazilian Highway, in the city of Ourinhos, São Paulo state. The two men operating the vehicle were […]
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Two Peruvians were arrested in Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, following the seizure of one ton of cocaine. This was revealed yesterday by the director of the Special Force against Drug Trafficking, Gonzalo Quesada. The operation was conducted in the northeastern city of Guaqui, near Lake Titicaca, and the illegal cargo was transported in separate vehicles, […]
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Ketamine is an illegal hallucinogen analgesic and can be bought without the greatest difficulty in several places of Lima. A Epensa Group team reached one of these sites, located on Avenue Emancipation, in downtown Lima, and acquired this powerful drug. Read Article
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Believed to have come from Medellin Colombia: laprensa.hn reported that a parcel in a small box found at the airport’s cargo terminal Ramon Villeda Morales contain at least 29.5 kilograms of cocaine, authorities said. The package was sent from the city Medellin in Colombia, according to the National Bureau of Special Investigation Services (DNSEI). The […]
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Ingeniero Budge Argentina: The drugs were hidden in a truck carrying wood. There are four detainees. Clarin.com reported that the Buenos Aires police yesterday seized 3700 kilos of marijuana (about four tons) in a shed Engineer Budge, Lomas de Zamora. The cargo was concealed within pine slats to place drug recessed. Authorities estimated that placing […]
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The National Police boarded at sea, north of Cape Verde, a ship from Venezuela bound for the European continent and in their warehouses carrying 2 tons of cocaine. The ship was bound for somewhere in the north of Portugal. “It is the biggest operation so far in 2013 in regard to the fight against drug […]
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Tingo Maria. – cronicaviva.com.pe reported that police officers clashed with drug traffickers in the area known as Quebrada La Llorona Oxapampa district, Tingo Maria. The criminals used a clandestine airstrip to smuggle drugs abroad. Drug traffickers opened fire when the police patrol arrived in the area. After the confrontation, the criminals managed to escape but […]
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critica.com.pa reported that a criminal organization led by a Mexican drug dealer who operates from Guatemala, would be exchanging drugs for cash and explosives to the FARC’s 57th Front. This dealer would be the link that poster with the guerrilla group, a report by the Colombian authorities. Colombian officials have determined that this man has […]
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The Attorney General, in coordination with the Counter Narcotics Police, discovered last Saturday a shipment of Chancery allegedly contaminated with drugs. According to the official version of the attorney general, Galo Chiriboga, contamination of the drug, which is in the process of preliminary investigation, there was a burden that was handled by the Foreign Ministry […]
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Ten police officers in Peru drug (Dirandro) working in Lima International Airport were denounced by the prosecution for allegedly being involved in sending cocaine caches Mexican cops working for the Sinaloa cartel, reported the daily The Republic. According to the newspaper, on June 25, 2012 there was a shootout between police at the international airport […]
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On March 21, 2013, G1 reported that police in the state of Paraná arrested a man yesterday with 400 kilograms of cocaine and 20 kilograms of crack in his car. The bust happened in Céu Azul, in the west of the state. Police say that the drugs were hidden in sacks of farinha which were […]
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On March 20, 2013, Radio Liberdade reported that police in the state of Santa Catarina found more than half a ton of marijuana camouflaged in a truck. The arrest was made in Mafra, in the north of the state. According to the report, the truck failed to stop during a Federal Highway Police traffic stop, […]
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Authorities in Costa Rica today reported the arrest of an Italian carrying liquid cocaine in bottles of vodka and a Guatemalan with 80 capsules of heroin in his stomach, both at the airport Juan Santamaría, on the outskirts of San Jose. The Italian had the flight route San Jose, Madrid, Touluse (France) and the authorities […]
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The arrest of two subjects in the Cancun International Airport who swallowed 60 capsules of drugs, (which until last night had driven) uncovered what could be a new drug trafficking route between Cancun and Italy. Christian Dante López Cordero and Alvarez were arrested by elements Fraire Federal Police before boarding a flight to Milan, Italy. […]
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Over two thousand marijuana plants were discovered and seized in the upper district of Moro, in the province of Santa (Ancash), said the head of the Police Division of Chimbote, Edgar Aguilar Amaro. Amaro Aguilar said the police, together with the representative of the Public Ministry, have come after a long walk, to this remote […]
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Increase in homicides and corruption in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Mexicocnn.com.mx reported the drug like cocaine is increasing in the Caribbean route, said Tuesday the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in its annual report. After that in recent years recorded a decrease in traffic through the Caribbean countries, again increased, the agency explained. […]
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tnpress.com.py reported the first procedure was recorded during the last hours, when members of the squad 51 “Resistance” Gendarmerie conducting vehicle checks on National Highway 16, at the height of the bridge General Manuel Belgrano. According to spokesmen reported, the police ordered the driver of a Citroen Berlingo to stop the march, who performed the […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that an Ecuadorean boat arrested Monday in the Costa Rican Pacific carried a total of 470 kilos of cocaine, according to the final tally made by the authorities, said Tuesday the Ministry of Security. The drug has already been sent to San José in aerial surveillance aircraft, while the four arrested, two Costa […]
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On March 20, 2013, Nota Pajos (Globo) reported that a transvestite in the Brazilian city of Campinas was arrested yesterday at Viracopos International Airport while trying to transport 1.7 kilograms of cocaine in his underwear. The suspect’s destination was Brussels. The suspect also said that he would have received around R$10,000 for the drugs’ safe […]
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On March 19, 2013, D24AM reported that the number of women arrested so far in the year 2013 is 134, up 41% from the same time period last year. The report notes that many women are the wives and girlfriends of other perpetrators, and many are pulled into crime through emotional and mental bonds with […]
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On March 19, 2013, A Tarde reported that police in the Bahian city of Vitória da Conquista arrested a local drug dealer after catching him consuming marijuana. He also had drugs in tow, looking to sell them. Police found Alan Gomes Fonseca Pereira in a house in Conquista, a house which police say served as […]
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On March 18, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that a couple was arrested on a bus headed from São Paulo to Vitória, the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, with three suitcases of marijuana in tow. Highway Police boarded the bus during a routine search close to Guarapari, a city about 47 […]
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The alleged drug lord Ernesto Salvador Jorge Ulloa Sibrián, alias Onion, was repatriated by air yesterday his country by the Guatemalan authorities. Six weeks ago the Ministry of Interior received from the security authorities of El Salvador a request for urgent help: their intelligence services were located in Guatemala, whom they considered one of the […]
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On March 15, 2013, R7 reported that state police in Minas Gerais seized over 600 kilograms of marijuana in the city of Ituiutuba, about 700 kilometers west of Belo Horizonte, the capital. The drugs were discovered in an abandoned car. Police believe some of the drugs had been buried, as the packages appeared to be […]
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On March 14, 2013, A Tarde reported that police in the state of Bahia seized over one ton of illegal drugs from a group of traffickers in Santo Estevão, along federal highway BR-116. Police arrested six men and two women and seized four cars. All of the cars were equipped with transmission radios. The drugs […]
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On March 15, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that police in the state of São Paulo have discovered close to a half a ton of drugs, along with 30 firearms, in a bunker in Juquitiba, a town about 78 kilometers from the city of São Paulo. No one was arrested, and police were […]
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Guatemalan authorities have caught a Belizean with a major cache of weed. According to newspaper reports from that country, 41 year old Antony Patrick Westby, was arrested driving a vehicle with marijuana in the Petén region near San Pedro Cadenas village. The Toyota pickup had Guatemalan plates and police found 12 packages with a whopping […]
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nogalesinternational.com reported that a Mexican man was arrested Tuesday at the Mariposa Port of Entry after he allegedly tried to smuggle more than a ton of marijuana into the United States in a truck filled with bell peppers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said its officers referred the 35-year-old man and the tractor-trailer he was […]
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On March 12, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that it seized 62 kilograms of cocaine paste from a car in Santa Isabel, part of the São Paulo Metropolitan Area. The car was en route from Iguazu Falls, Paraná state, to Rio de Janeiro. The driver presented forged documents to highway police, while the […]
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Over 55 kilos of drugs were seized in three raids into port, south suburb. The first operation took place last weekend in the cooperative mz 3684 Santiago de Guayaquil. Staff said that after narcotics intelligence work was discovered in an apartment that kept 20,313 pounds of cocaine in 18 packages wrapped with packing tape. Uniformed […]
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Drugs cartels are silencing the Mexican press according to rnw.nl. More and more Mexican newspapers are deciding to stop reporting crime news. And drugs cartels are increasingly succeeding in influencing the editorial line of the Mexican media. Journalists, bloggers and editors who criticise the activities of organised crime groups face death, kidnapping, decapitation or mutilation……Read […]
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Nuevodia.com.mx reported that….Foour cardboard boxes with plastic drums filled with chemicals managed to take last Friday morning a group of thugs, a local company, allegedly for use in the production of synthetic drugs, police said Hall. This, said the spokesman of the corporation cajemense, was raised shortly before 09:00 hours when those services are located […]
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In Jalisco inhalant sale is available to anyone, including minors despite the risk of using them as a drug, so urgent that marketing be regulated in all municipalities in the state. The problem with municipalities is that, although health officials have insisted that they should limit this problem, “ignore”, Salvador Chavez said Joel Rivera, technical […]
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On March 12, 2013, Diário de Guarapuava reported that police arrested a teenager on a bus last night with close to 24 kilograms of marijuana in her baggage. The bust was made on BR-277, while the bus was on its way to Ponta Grossa, in the Brazilian state of Paraná. The drugs were found during […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that Mero Fernando Sergio Davila, 31, thought he could enter without any problem at Social Rehabilitation Center for Women in Guayaquil, with several drugs hidden in bananas, but their plans did not work because I discovered penitenciaras guides. According to the police report, the prison held approximately reached the center at 15:00 to […]
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On March 5, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that it has arrested two Argentine men on a bus headed from São Paulo to Salvador after a routine check. Early Tuesday morning, police seized ten kilograms of cocaine from one of the man’s bags. Upon questioning the passengers, police connected the bag to a […]
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On March 5, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the Federal Highway Police seized five trucks on the highway in São Paulo state on Tuesday, netting a grand total of six million contraband cigarettes. According to police, the cigarettes are from Paraguay. The bust was made in the region of Presidente Prudente, in […]
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On March 3, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that a woman was arrested in the state of Mato Grosso yesterday trying to transport about 14 kilograms of cocaine paste. Federal Highway Police arrested the woman in the region of Primavera do Leste, about 230 kilometers from Cuiabá, the capital. The drugs were headed for Barra […]
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On February 25, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that police arrested a 30 year-old man in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul after they found a large amount of marijuana beneath the cabin of his car. Police also said that he was driving without a license, and could not be identified at the scene. […]
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On February 28, 2013, A Crítica reported that nine policemen in Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas, were arrested this morning for suspected involvement in a drug trafficking scheme. The policemen are accused of aiding and abetting a string of drug traffickers throughout the north and west zones of the city, as well as re-selling […]
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DRUGS OFTEN PACKED IN MIDDLE OF MERCHANDISE ON CONTAINERS POLICE BELIEVE THEIR IS A CONSPIRACY BETWEEN TRAFFICKERS AND LABORERS OF SHIPPING YARDS/COMPANIES LOS RASTROJOS FROM COLOMBIA OPERATE IN ECUADOR SPAIN, HOLLAND, PORTUGAL AND BELGIUM ARE THE PRINCIPAL ENTRY POINTS FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS INTO EUROPE Elcomercio.comThe last Friday was not the only case. That day, police […]
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Police in Mexicali on February 22, 2013 seized a “cannon gun” used by drug traffickers to “shoot” packages of drugs into the United States. The cannon was activated by a compressor and air tank attached to the tube to initiate the launch. Marco Antonio Carrillo, director of Public Safety Mexicali, capital of Baja California, said […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that police seized 174 kilos of cocaine in Alamor-Arenillas, in the neighborhood of Canton Monte Huaico Puyango in Loja. A truck was stopped by police during the operation with plates from Pichincha. A double bottom on the floor of the truck revealed 101 packages of cocaine. Investigators believe the drug passed through the […]
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frontera.info reported that the number of homicides in 2013, is eleven more than in 2012. Miguel Angel Guerrero of the PGJE confirmed these statistics. He revealed that 85 percent of the homicides are a result of conflicts in the streets between dealers, fighting for turf. Read Article
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Along the border between Peru and Ecuador were detected 46 illegal crossings used by criminal gangs engaged in smuggling of arms, drugs and people, the minister warned Ecuadorian security coordinator, Homero Arellano. “To them should focus the armies of the two countries, together with the police, to support enforcement in those places,” he told Andina. […]
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On February 25, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police reported that they arrested a woman yesterday morning with 30 kilograms of crack inside of a styrofoam box. She was traveling on a bus headed from São Paulo to Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte. During a random search of the passengers’ belongings, police […]
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On February 24, 2013, Zero Hora reported that police arrested a 46 year-old man on drug trafficking charges in the city of Passo Fundo, in the north of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He was caught during the early hours of Sunday morning with about five and a half kilograms of cocaine. The […]
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On February 22, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that state police in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul arrested two men who were illegally transporting contraband cigarettes. The arrest was made in Camapuã, about 130 kilometers north of the capital city of Campo Grande. The men were arrested in a large truck and […]
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Interior Minister of Guatemala, Mauricio Lopez, said there was confusion about the news broadcast on Thursday an armed confrontation which would presumably dead Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. According to the rumor, spread primarily through social networks, one of the police officers involved in the alleged operation in the Peten region said they […]
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According to elnuevoherald.com, Guatemala authorities are investigating Thursday whether Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, may have died in a gun battle in the Department of Petén in northern border with Mexico, said Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez. “At the moment we have is the confirmation of an armed confrontation. […]
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On February 20, 2013, NE10 reported that a joint effort between civil and state police in the state of Bahia resulted in the seizure of over one ton of marijuana, which would have been dealt in Salvador, the capital. Five people were arrested during the three-day operation. Part of the drugs were found in a […]
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oem.com.mx reported that 94% of the homicides committed in Jalisco recently have to do with drug trafficking, recognizes the attorney general, Thomas Coronado Olmos, who says so is an offense of high impact and whose greatest concern priority should be fight of his successor. Coronado Olmos said that there are other offenses, mainly those of […]
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Santa Fe police arrested a man as he tried to fly a Cessna carrying 250 kilograms of marijuana. Was on a rural road between the towns of Serodino and Clarke Station, 70 kilometers northwest of Rosario. The deputy provincial police commissioner greater Cristian Sola said that “it will analyze the black box and the GPS […]
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The Public Security Secretariat of Jalisco (SSPJ) announced that members of the department, located a property used as a laboratory for the manufacture of synthetic drugs, on the slopes of a hill located in Mazamitla. Were from the Commissioner General of the State Public Security (CGSPE), who received an anonymous tip that there was a […]
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Increased arrests of teenagers involved in micro-networks of drug trafficking Eleven micro-drug traffickers, including nine teenagers, were captured during the last 96 hours by police officers of Tachira in different locations in the region, who were surprised when they sold banned substances in the form of retail. Jim Ortuño, Politáchira Executive Secretary, reported that this […]
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Italian police dismantled a network that trafficked Italian-Mexican cocaine, importing it from Mexico to Italy as part of an operation called “Cancun” and in which agents of the country worked from 2011, official sources confirmed to Reform. As part of the police operation, three people, all of Italian nationality and one of them a Roman […]
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The police captured alias “Sarley” or “Countryman”, subject to 37 years of age who is the second leader of the criminal gang “Rebirth” that offends in the department of Chocó, mainly in the town of Istmina. The capture came when soldiers in a checkpoint located in the village of El Sabanal Monteria, Cordoba, they asked […]
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CUSTOMIZED MEDIA MONITORING PROGRAM Carlos Federico Del Frade and published research that says that in the city of Rosario has 400 kiosks drug $ 2,000 million annually collect and also exposes employers of the night and a provincial official. Journalists Carlos Federico Mauro Del Frade and gave details about the route of the drug in […]
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According to hoy.com.do….PUNTA CANA. A suitcase with six packets of cocaine was occupied at the local airport after his owner abandoned her on a plane to take off to Canada, narcotic weighed seven kilograms and a half, reported Monday the National Control Drugs (DNCD). “The drug suitcase was left in a corporate jet Sun Wing […]
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On February 14, 2013, the Federal Highway Police of Brazil seized a stash of 800 kilograms of marijuana, along with a Romanian-made rifle, near Ourinhos, São Paulo state. The bust was made after police boarded a Mercedes-Benz truck on the Trans-Brazilian Highway (BR-153). The truck had plates registered to Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, a […]
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Source: Colombian Police: Operation “Republica 22” makes it clear alliance between the FARC and “Urabeños” for drug trafficking ANNP 17-FEB-13. Bogotá DC 13 people were caught in the departments of Caldas, Nariño, Norte de Santander and Santander. At the end of 16 months of research the Narcotics Division of the National Police in coordination with […]
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Colombia Police reported: Valle del Cauca. The final destination would alkaloid departments Antioquia and the coffee, its market value would exceed 4.617 million pesos. In police operations conducted in the struggle against the micro traffic, in the last hours were seized more than 7 tons and a half of marijuana and captured three people, plus […]
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