On February 10, 2013, D24AM reported that police discovered 27 kilograms of marijuana on BR-319, valued at R$40,000. Police also arrested three individuals and charged them with drug trafficking. The drug was being transported by means of motorcycle between Porto Velho, Rondônia, and Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas. The action inflicted significant damage on […]
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channel5belize.com reported that two well-known Belizean businessmen from the north are in lockdown in Mexico City after what is considered the biggest drug raid in Chetumal on Thursday evening involving one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels. Both men were caught in an alleged drug transaction at the house of a reputed Mexican drug lord […]
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She is a native of Salta and imprisonment denounced his mother in Buenos Aires, to the Office of Luis Comparatore, sources confirmed to The Voice of the investigation. It is unclear how accurate the data came from the release of the house of Villa El Libertador where the girl was hiding, apparently inside a room […]
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The war on drugs in Mexico has largely stayed away from its capital city. But now some police chiefs are warning the violence could spread. On Sunday, 18 suspected members of La Familia cartel were arrested in connection to recent killings in Mexico City’s suburbs.
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A report published today in the newspaper Granma explains that despite increased international threats and the complexity of the phenomenon of drug trafficking in the region, with a decade of implementing operations Breastplate Popular and Aché III, the drug strategy by the government deplegada Cuban shown great effectiveness. As a result of confronting these manifestations, […]
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Narcs Paraguay, with support from the Brazilian police, destroyed 309 hectares of marijuana in Amambay department, on the border with Brazil, reported the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad). These illegal crops were eliminated in the three days of a joint operation between the Paraguayan and Brazilian authorities carried out in forested regions Capitan Bado, Amambay, 600 […]
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tn.com.ar (Sept 2012) Just over the border north and northeastern Argentina for dozens of scars visible brown cut so straight and perfect the jungle landscape that abounds in the area. Each having a width of between 80 and 100 meters and a length of 500 to 1500 meters, are potential clandestine airstrips that are ready […]
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On February 7, 2013, G1 reported that police in the Brazilian state of Goiás discovered a stash of nearly 100 kilograms of marijuana. The drugs were found in Cachoeira Alta, some 350 kilometers from Goiânia, the state capital. The marijuana was wrapped into 104 packets using wrapping paper, made to look like birthday presents. The […]
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On February 8, 2013, the Polícia Militar of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul reported that it arrested a man yesterday with about 193 kilograms of marijuana in the trunk of his Hyundai. The arrest happened in Amambaí, some 350 kilometers south of Campo Grande, the state capital. The suspect said he picked the […]
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On February 7, 2013, Cidade Verde reported that a couple and a teenager were arrested Thursday with some 200 kilograms of marijuana, hidden in a bushy area. The arrest was made in Timon, a city in the state of Maranhão just across the river from Teresina, the state capital of Piauí. The drugs had a […]
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elmundo.es —– “Acapulco has deteriorated because there is no authority, not prevented the crime, not prosecuted, not investigated, not punished and impunity is what has made it the most violent city in Mexico and the second in the world, after Honduras San Pedro Sula.’s almost a failed state. ” The president of the NGO Citizens […]
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An official of the Attorney General of Mexico reported that soldiers arrested 17 men who were working on unfinished tunnel in the city of Tijuana, which is on the border with the United States. The tunnel was to cross the border and reach the port of entry at Otay Mesa, said the man, who declined […]
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On February 7, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that police seized some 400 kilograms of cocaine base in the town of Porto Feliz, Sorocaba region, en route to Brazil from Paraguay. The traffickers were using a twin-engine plane when the aircraft crashed in a sugar plantation. The suspects attempted to flee with some […]
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On February 1, 2013, the Christian Post (Portuguese) reported that police in Foz de Iguaçu arrested a female Evangelical pastor and charged her with drug trafficking. An anonymous tip brought police to the pastor and a previously undisclosed safe house, where they also found in the house weapons, drugs and money. Police also arrested three […]
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On February 4, 2013, Em Rondônia reported that police seized a vehicle containing 30 kilograms of marijuana en route to the city of Porto Velho, the capital of the state of Rondônia. The stop was made in Itapuã do Oeste, about 115 km from the capital. The driver said that he came from Campo Grande, […]
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oday we presented the results of the fourth survey on drug use in students 12 to 17 years. The consultation was conducted by the National Control Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances ( Consep ). The data showed that the average age of onset of drug use rose to 14.3 years compared to previous studies. Other data […]
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According to carcol.com, FARC proposed legalize some marijuana crops, poppy and coca leaf in the country, and to suspend the granting of mining rights and concessions for oil exploration and extraction. These measures are part of a document entitled “Eight proposals for minimum social and environmental management” the guerrillas of Colombia presented to the table […]
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On January 29, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Highway Police (PRF) seized approximately 435 kilograms of marijuana from a Fiat en route to Santa Catarina, after a brief car chase. The car was caught in Santa Terezinha do Itaipu, about 25 kilometers northeast of the Brazilian border at Iguazu Falls. The suspect, a 34 year-old man […]
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caracol.com reported an imminent extradition to the United States face both cases and eight operators narcocontroladores Airport in Barranquilla Ernesto Cortissoz Police captured by Colombia and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA. According to research, in the airport terminal were falsified flight plans of the aircraft so that they could easily meet the requirements of […]
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A retired Canadian military member was detained at Mariscal Sucre International Airport for transporting eight kilos of cocaine, reported extra.ec. The illegal drugs were located in her two suitcases. Drug dogs smelled the contraband. The drugs were wrapped in packing tape and foil. The suspect is Gol Ding Clarrissa May (sic?), age 52, listed as […]
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The police organization Interpol said Tuesday they have arrested 25 people and seized 360 tons of chemicals for drug manufacture and 200 kilos of methamphetamine, cocaine and LSD in an operation in eleven Latin American countries. The operation, called “Icebreaker” and which also confiscated $ 2 million in cash, affecting Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, […]
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Two Ecuadorians were arrested in the Pacific Ocean in Guatemala, with 300 kilos of cocaine on a vessel carrying, authorities said Monday. The director of the National Civil Police (PNC), Gerson Oliva, told reporters that the capture came after receiving a warning about the presence in the Pacific waters of a boat that had left […]
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On February 4, 2013, O Povo reported that Federal Highway Police along BR-116 made a drug bust last Saturday when it seized 22 kilograms of marijuana from a couple traveling by interstate bus between the towns of Jijoca and Jericoacoara, in the northeastern state of Ceará. Police caught them in Jaguaribe, about 300 kilometers from […]
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On February 4, 2013, Surgiu reported that civil authorities in the city of Palmas, the capital of Tocantins, arrested a woman in possession of some 50 kilograms of marijuana. The suspect, Maria Cristina Thomazi Bordin, was taken to the local Women’s Prison, where she faces drug trafficking charges. Bordin was arrested on a bus operating […]
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On February 4, 2013, O Dia reported that the Federal Police arrested a man carrying some 4,000 ecstasy pills en route to distribute them to various parts of southern Brazil. The man was caught at Iguazu Falls, which connects Brazil to Argentina. Police intelligence discovered the man, a resident of Balneário Camboriú, Santa Catarina, as […]
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On January 31, 2013, G1 reported that two men were arrested today in Cáceres, about 250 kilometers from the state capital of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, for drug possession. The men were found with 80 kilograms of cocaine base, and were arrested in a patch of shrubbery. Three other men were also spotted, but they escaped […]
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On January 31, 2013, the State Police of Mato Grosso do Sul reported that its Frontier Operations Department (DOF) seized a cache of drugs during a routine search in the region of Ponto Porã. The suspect, identified by the initials C.S., was carrying two bags containing close to 17 kilograms of marijuana and half a […]
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Belize, which borders Mexico and Guatemala, has become dominated territory Cartel and Los Zetas gangs, warns a report by Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. According to the policy analysis group and intelligence in the last 30 years has intensified the phenomenon of drug trafficking in the small Central American nation that has become important point for […]
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Elpais.com reports: “There is no curfew, but after nine at night, Torreón is a ghost town,” says Professor Robert Lopez Franco, former director of the School of Social and Political Sciences , alarmed by the breakdown of the social fabric. “Our youth is being annihilated by poverty, drugs and weapons,” he adds. The feeling of […]
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Nogalesinternatinal.com reported that a Nogales, Sonora woman was allegedly busted with more than a half-million dollars worth of methamphetamine on Friday at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that its officers at the port discovered more than 33 pounds of the drug in a Hyundai sedan driven by 42-year-old […]
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San José de Yanayacu, Loreto Peru Peruvian authorities arrested a suspected drug gang of five Colombian and Peruvian Amazon region in Loreto, reported the National Police of Peru (PNP). Spanish.china.org.cn reported that according to the police report, the men were seized when traveling in a speedboat in a suspicious manner in the vicinity of the […]
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According to Spanish.china.org.cn, the Ecuadorian minister of the interior, José Serrano, reported today that in the coming weeks will proceed to destroy airfields that were used for illegal activities such as drug trafficking. In an interview with state television TV Series, Serrano said that in coordination with the Armed Forces has been “intelligence work to […]
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Diariodeguerrero.com.mx reported Among the ornamental plants that the city is standing on the ridges of the main avenues of the capital, yesterday we found a marijuana plant, which exceeded 40 inches in height and at least 10 inches larger than the group of plants in which it was. The plant “Juanita”, was found on the […]
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JARABACOA. The National Drugs Control Agency (DNCD) reported yesterday that last night seized nine packets of cocaine weighing more than nine kilos during a raid at a bar Roquet Club, of this city. Regarding the fact arrested Jose Coronado Baez Garcia, Jose Hernandez and Rodriguez Alexander Yovanka Fermín Antonio Paulino. The DNCD in a press […]
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National Drugs Control (DNCD) by seize box of straws stuffed with cocaine in mail…… sent from San Francisco de Macoris to a person resident in New York. Read Article
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No Drugs on Board: Two men missing from the plane, reported to have left with two suitcases. Eluniverso.com reported that….Mexican manufacturing various products, including adhesives cartons with eggs marketer of Sinaloa SA and a green bag Walmort brand, are the main evidence of the police to suspect that the HC-AMB plane that landed afternoon Sunday […]
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Guabala, Chiriquí. -According to By operating “Rookie” narcotics agents of the National Police found a young woman with a briefcase, which was carrying eight packages of a drug known as “Crispi”. The suspect was traveling on a bus route Panama-David.The group of officers arrested the woman in the booth Guabala in the province of Chiriqui, […]
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What is the nature of this market? The history of cocaine trafficking from South America to the United States has been well documented. The flow peaked in the 1980s. During most of this time, Colombian traffickers dominated the market, and they often preferred to use the Caribbean as a transit area. Due to vigorous law […]
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SOURCE: laprensa.hn Authorities indicate that 11 Honduran cartels are part of narcotics smuggling network. Five drug cartels from Colombia are using Honduras as a drop off point to transport illegal drugs on to Mexico with ultimate destination of the United States. Research by Honduran office of drug trafficking (DLCN) and the Honduran military working in […]
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Agents of the Drug Enforcement Tactical Operations Department of Dirandro (Depotad) Huanta, seized three kilos of cocaine alkaloid, camouflaged in a hydraulic jack. Police sources said the drugs were hidden inside the hold of a bus company “Cholito Bus” when control of the vehicle made during the operation developed in the district of Quinoa. Read […]
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Elespectador.com reported that the Disciplinary Committee of FIFA s uspendió provisionally for 30 days to a player of the national football team of Peru, who failed a doping control after the qualifying match for the 2014 World Championship in La Paz 12 October last year. As confirmed by FIFA, after learning the positive analysis of […]
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A U.S. judge on Monday sentenced to 11 months in prison to a Venezuelan who pleaded guilty to a charge related to a cocaine trafficking case in which seven people are charged. Judge Robin Ronsembaum announced his decision at a hearing in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, in southern Florida. He pleaded guilty to making […]
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The drugs were hidden inside a vehicle. Staff assigned to Detachment 33 of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), belonging to the fixed checkpoint The Toll House, located in the municipality of Zulia state Baralt, seized 40 kilos of marijuana. The drug was represented in 40 panels of a kilo each, hidden from a double bottom […]
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El Universo.com reported that Interior Minister, José Serrano, said Monday via Twitter that Sunday was held in the Vinces, Los Rios province, a plane that allegedly was to be used to transport drugs. “Plane was apprehended yesterday in the Vinces, province of Los Rios, presumably would be used to transport drugs,” said Jose Serrano Salgado […]
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Angel Dust (PCP) This is a highly addictive drug that is consumed in nightclubs and at private schools for young middle and upper classes. Its main feature is that its use leads to violence. According to peru21.pe, There are so many young people partying without a dose of violence can trigger up to street clashes. […]
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Guardian.co.uk reported that George Soros has thrown his support behind the president of Guatemala’s efforts to end the war on drugs. Soros, who is best know for leading a run on the pound in 1992 that forced the UK out of the European exchange rate mechanism, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that […]
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On January 23, 2013, Paraná Online reported that local police arrested a man on Tuesday morning with more than R$500,000 worth of pure cocaine in his house in Curitiba, the capital of Paraná. Júlio César de Jesus, 47, was found with eleven kilograms of the substance. Police received various tips and accusations from people in […]
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Customs and Border Protection showcased 14,000 pounds of marijuana seized at the Mariposa Port of Entry at a news conference on Tuesday. The drugs are estimated at $7 million. The marijuana was discovered by Border Protection officers during a high risk shipment inspection on January 15. Read Article
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Hoy.com.ec reported that three foreign and one Peruvian were arrested during the week for trying to smuggle drugs Lima International Airport bound for Spain, Efe reported sources of the Police Anti-Drug Directorate (Dirandro). Three foreign and one Peruvian were arrested during the week for trying to smuggle drugs Lima International Airport bound for Spain, Efe […]
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prensa-latina.cu reported that the Venezuelan authorities Tucanos acquire 12 aircraft in order to strengthen their ability to face the traffic of illicit substances in the country, reported the National Anti-Drug Office. According to the agency, the Minister of Interior and Justice, Nestor Reverol, said the devices will join the Bolivarian Military Aviation to detect illegal […]
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President Evo Morales announced that it will make efforts to export to the ALBA countries without alkaloid cocaine after Bolivia was readmitted to the Convention on Narcotic Drugs of the United Nations. “The next battle will be how to export coca leaf itself based on the 1961 Convention. Course, some conditions must be met as […]
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BBC.co.uk reported that a court in Nicaragua has jailed for 30 years each 18 people who tried to enter the country with $9.2m (£5.8m), posing as Mexican TV journalists. A judge in Managua found them guilty of money-laundering and organising a drug link between Mexico and Costa Rica. Read Article
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ibtimes.co.uk reported…..Drugs are not just sold around schools but within them. According to one head teacher, students find any number of ways to smuggle them in – hidden in pens, in the folds of their uniform or in the pages of their notebooks. “Drugs are present in schools, just like theft and violence, because they […]
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On January 16, 2013, São Paulo Police reported that a large drug refinery was discovered in the North Zone of the city of São Paulo. Police discovered the refinery after arresting a suspect on the street who presented false documentation. While held, the man admitted that he was a manager of a drug trafficking ring, […]
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On January 9, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Police (Polícia Federal) concluded a massive anti-drug campaign in the state of Paraná, Operation Ajubá. Over six months of investigation, Federal Police seized four tons of marijuana, 136 kilograms of cocaine and 336 bottles of inhalants. They also arrested ten people: eight men, two women. The gang maintained […]
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On January 17, 2013, G1 reported that an 18 year-old man was arrested in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, on charges that he killed a man in a local LAN house. The footage came from video surveillance within the LAN house. The killer, whose name was not given, was wanted for four other murders before […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that 10 years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of € 40,000 were convicted in Milan, Italy, Ecuadorians and Jorge Loor Cristian Redrobán, as published yesterday on its web edition the newspaper El Comercio, who had access to conviction by the finding liquid cocaine inside a diplomatic pouch Ecuador in January 2012. Read […]
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On January 16, 2013, NE Noticias reported that a woman was arrested in Aracaju, the capital of the Brazilian state of Sergipe, for dealing drugs near a local hospital. The suspected buyers are city councilman Adriano Feitoza and his brother, Damião. The dealer, Luana Ferreira dos Santos, also ran for city council in the nearby […]
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On January 16, 2013, NE10 reported that a 15 year-old girl was arrested Tuesday night with a stash of marijuana weighing roughly 16 ½ pounds in São José de Mipubú, a town about 30 kilometers from Natal, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte. She was traveling on the highway near São […]
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On January 16, 2013, Conexão Tocantins reported that authorities discovered and closed down a drug selling point in Porto Nacional, roughly 70 kilometers south of Palmas, the state capital of Tocantins. Police arrested two men, Willian Alves de Freitas and José Lopes Sampaio, on drug trafficking and accessory charges. Police discovered Alves de Freitas and […]
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Liquid cocaine believed to have originated in Peru or Colombia – Fruit cans used had labels of well known brands in Ecuador. eluniverso.com reported ten million dollars would be worth the 190.625 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride Counternarcotics Police of Guayas discovered last Friday in a container, in the seaport of Guayaquil, south of the city. […]
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According to the newspaper excelsior.com.mx, money laundering and weapons training are the main points in the relationship between Mexican drug cartels and alleged international terrorist groups operating in the country as Hezbollah. Although not confirmed links between drug trafficking and terrorist groups by Mexican authorities, according to experts and a review by the Strategic Studies […]
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On January 14, 2013, NE10 reported that federal prosecutors have charged a group of individuals with drug trafficking in Vitória da Conquista, a city about 500 kilometers southwest of Salvador, in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The activity was discovered through correspondences between branches of the Federal Police in the area. A package was left […]
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nogalesinternational.com reported: Note to drug smugglers: If you get lost while hauling a pot load, it’s probably best to ask directions from someone other than the Border Patrol. A 21-year-old U.S. man learned that lesson the hard way on Thursday night after he approached agents from the Sonoita Station while hauling a stack of lumber […]
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BEGINS TO OPERATE IN BELIZE Looking to find new routes to smuggle drugs from South America Mexico City, ports, airstrips mangroves and nestled in the jungle of Belize small, are becoming the main entrance doors of the Mexican drug cartels in an attempt to find new routes for drug trafficking from South America. With the […]
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Three of them, according to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) are Asian criminal organizations that supply the Sinaloa cartel of precursor chemicals for the manufacture of synthetic drugs. According to a report by the agency, the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) found, in meetings with representatives of Latin American countries, there are […]
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The Ministry of Public Security of Coahuila, reported the arrest of the chief of police in Matamoros, Edgar Cabrera, carrying two guns for the exclusive use of the Army and an envelope with white powder with the characteristics of cocaine. He was arrested and remanded to the PGR this morning while returning from Saltillo, after […]
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The Interior Ministry officials reported Tuesday that the amount of precursors seized last year totaled over what was seized in the operations of 2010 and 2011. According to statistics from the ministry, at the end of December 2012, it accounted for 25,000 containers of different features with prohibited substances while in the last two years […]
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Panama authorities in 2012 seized 35 tons of drugs traffickers transported from South America to the United States, said Thursday the Security Minister, Jose Raul Mulino. “The year 2012 ended in a preliminary 34.6 tonnes (seized) between January and December,” he said at a news conference Mulino. In 2011, 39 tons were seized, according to […]
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lanacion.cl reported that within 24 hours, police personnel OS-7 major El Loa intercepted two loads of marijuana and cocaine base were valued at 950 million pesos. Two people were arrested in the proceedings. In the first specialized staff, together with staff from the 1st station in Calama, JJAT arrested, aged 21, in Enaex checkpoint at […]
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On January 10, 2013, Diário do Pará reported that a drug dealer was arrested while selling marijuana in the street in Ananindeua, a town about 19 kilometers from Belém, the state capital of Pará. The local narcotics division caught Sandro Anderson de Souza Neves, 36, on the night of January 9. Police also captured the […]
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On January 10, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that a boy was killed this morning after he was run over by a car while escaping from police during an anti-drug operation. The boy, identified as Rafael, was running from police on the far end of the Avenida Brasil, returning from the Nova Holanda […]
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On January 9, 2013, Globo reported that authorities in the state of Mato Grosso arrested a boy found with twelve kilograms of marijuana. Local residents alerted the police after seeing the young man walking through the streets of the area with a weapon. After the boy denied having the weapon, police revisited his house and […]
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On January 8, 2013, G1 (Globo) reported that Brazilian Federal Police seized 30 kilograms of marijuana in a suitcase en route from Rio de Janeiro to Fortaleza (Ceará). After the owner abandoned the bag in Fortaleza, the bag was returned to Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro. Federal Police traced it back to its […]
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On January 8, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that authorities discovered 43 marijuana plants in a woman’s apartment in the city of Diadema, in the state of São Paulo. She was arrested and charged with drug possession and trafficking. The woman reportedly told police that she believed the plants were tomatoes. The police also questioned […]
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The deceased was taken to the morgue of Forensic Medicine, where he found that his body had 40 caps with the same substance in their intestines. Consequently, a narcotics team went to the amphitheater and, after a preliminary field test, it was found that it was cocaine hydrochloride, said Lt. Col. Wladimir Leon, commander of […]
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After installation of Mixed Operations Base on the border with Michoacán and Jalisco, police Township Marcos Castellanos were returned to the corporation to which they had given up for fear of organized crime activities. Authorities of the state government, confirmed that about 11 uniformed municipal, 25 who formed the corporation, patrolling the streets of the […]
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According to the Eluniverso.com, the Spanish authorities have broken up a drug trafficking organization which introduced cocaine from Ecuador in bananas and palm containers through the port of Valencia. According to the Tax Agency reported yesterday, the operation has led to the arrest by Spanish police of ten people in Seville (southern) and Murcia (southeast). […]
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Two men were arrested in the province of Santa Fe, accused of carrying on the car they were traveling more than 43 kilograms of marijuana, police sources said Sunday. The incident occurred during the last hours, when staff of the Directorate General of Prevention and Control of Addictions santafesina police conducted a raid on National […]
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The body of a French citizen, left in a hostel in the neighborhood of Bocanegra, Callao, was found today by authorities. As reported by employees, the victim would have paid 10 soles for a temporary stay but not reported out of the room.
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Spanish police announced the arrest of a woman carrying nearly 1.4 kg of cocaine concealed in two false breast implants, on arrival at Barcelona airport on a flight from Bogota, Bogota. The woman, a Panamanian citizen and 20 years or so, “had two breast prostheses implanted cocaine,” police said in a statement. Alerted by “this […]
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Eluniverso.com reported that the national police on Friday presented the results of the operation called “Swirls II”, which managed the arrest of José Jiménez Marcos Olmedo, who according to the military would be the main leader of a drug trafficking organization, formed by Ecuadorians, Colombians and Peruvians. The network operated in the southern border and […]
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Source: A MAJORITY REPORT BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, INVESTIGATIONS, AND MANAGEMENT REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL T. McCAUL, CHAIRMAN ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION NOVEMBER 2012 A LINE IN THE SAND: COUNTERING CRIME, VIOLENCE AND TERROR AT THE SOUTHWEST BORDER THE THREATS: WHY ADDRESSING BORDER SECURITY REMAINS SO URGENT […]
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Team organized crime and drug (EDOA) Civil Guard has dismantled an organization Balears criminal smuggling cocaine from South America to Menorca. In the course of this operation has indicted five people for drug trafficking and have seized more than 11.5 kilos of cocaine. As reported in a statement, “Operation Robins’ began in late March and […]
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In Ecuador moved to the front of a seafood dealer. He used three names: Hector de Jesus Ramirez, Octavio Leon and Henry Betancourt. His near what was known as ‘El Charro’. At the hearing of support and opinion of the case formulation on drug-Rise which has been linked, the prosecution makes it the “foreign financier” […]
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Today is effective the new law 10,067, which cases “simple” related to drug trafficking in our province (“kiosks” drug and retail) shall be investigated by the provincial Justice. The Federal Court, for its part, will continue to investigate those cases considered complex: drug trafficking to medium and large scale. NOTE: Hanging tennis shoes from telephone […]
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Agents from the Drug Control Police seized more than a ton of cocaine in three different raids by land and sea. The first confiscation took place Tuesday evening in the waters of the South Pacific, 400 kilometers from Punta Burica, where agents seized a boat carrying near a ton of cocaine. Security Minister Mario Zamora […]
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Police yesterday intercepted more than 350 kilogrammes of cocaine at John Fernandes Limited shipping container facility on Mandela Avenue. Kaieteur News understands that the drug was found stashed in a consignment of Breeze Soap Powder. The drug was reportedly intended to be shipped to Niger, Africa, and was due to leave Guyana next Tuesday (December […]
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The trial involving several law enforcement officers accused in the largest drug seizure in recent history continued today before Justice Denis Hanomansingh in the Dangriga courts with arguments from the defense. Police officers Renel Grant, Lawrence Humes, Jacinto Roches, Mark Middleton and Customs boatman Harold Usher, as well as Victor Logan have been indicted for […]
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An appeals court in Argentina declared unconstitutional a rule that punishes marijuana cultivation for personal use, and dismissed a couple who had several plants and seeds in a nursery itself, said Wednesday the Judicial Information Center (ICJ). Failure of the Second Division of the Federal Court of La Plata (60 km south of Buenos Aires) […]
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The Costa Rica antidrug authorities captured the Honduran Sewnsen Pinnace Arthur Collins, who is wanted by the International Police (Interpol) and the United States on suspicion of drug trafficking, said Wednesday an official spokesman. Pinnace ran a network of drug traffickers in Central America that used the waterway to transport drugs to the United States. […]
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Author – Sonja Wolf ABSTRACT Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), founded in 1980s Los Angeles by Salvadoran immigrant youth, is today one of the largest street gangs in North and Central America. In recent years the group has acquired a reputation for extreme brutality and has ostensibly mutated into a fast-expanding, transnational organized crime network with possible […]
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Maiah Jaskoski – Author ABSTRACT This article challenges two prominent explanations for military behavior: militaries, like other bureaucracies, will seek to maximize their budgets; and in the interest of maintaining professionalism, militaries will perform sovereignty missions—external defense and counterinsurgency—more intensively than policing functions. Running counter to these expectations, since 2000, Ecuador’s army has neglected its […]
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Three routes identified by intelligence used by narco traffickers to enter and leave Bolivia from Brazil: San Ignacio de Velasco, San Matías, Pto. Suárez. Fruit of the ringleaders of the cartel detection First Command of the Capital (PCC) of Sao Paulo, Brazil, drug force identified three border routes used by traffickers to enter and leave […]
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Soldiers Venezuelan Bolivarian National Guard (GNB, militarized police) found buried $ 550,000 in cash along with a kilo of cocaine and a modern rifle HK 33KE, said the Ministry of Interior. The finding, in circumstances not yet revealed, occurred in a rural area of Apure state (western) border with Colombia, said the press officer of […]
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Psychologist Rita del Carmen was responsible for one of the steps to follow. Your job is to try to prevent young people as falling into the net Chamboy Los Zetas, taking advantage of their poverty and lack of opportunity. Many are often killed when they refuse to work for the cartel. “Many young people under […]
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While the Government has implemented new strategies, such as building 10 bases in VRAEM insurgency to strengthen the state’s presence in the area, the narco clan of brothers Quispe Palomino had moved his headquarters to the Lower Urubamba, Cusco. Perú21 met through military intelligence sources, the brothers Victor and Martin Quispe Palomino-comrades ‘Joseph’ and ‘Gabriel’, […]
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The property at 370 E. La Castellana Drive is proving to be a good place to catch drug smugglers. On Oct. 15, two Mexican men were sentenced to 1.5 years each in prison after being caught in an apartment there with four bundles of marijuana. The sentencing came just three weeks after another man was […]
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Piñatas are usually filled with candy. But a truck carrying a load of the colorful party favorites into the United States through Nogales turned out to be filled with a more sinister surprise: 425 pounds of marijuana. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, its officers at the Mariposa Port of Entry referred Juan Marcelo […]
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