Seven U.S. citizens, including three police officers, attended the party of Colombian drug trafficker Camilo Torres, alias “Fritanga.” Torres had been arrested on July, 2 2012 shortly after his wedding. He had organized the celebration party on a Caribbean island to follow the ceremony, during which he was arrested. The U.S. citizens present at the […]
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The National Drug Control in the Dominican Republic captured a couple responsible for organizing and recruiting drug mules who would fly to the United States and Europe. The couple was arrested in a home raid, where 22 grams of cocaine, firearms, ammunition, radios, and a Hummer were also seized. According to Diario Libre, two passports […]
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A Belgian citizen was arrested before boarding a plane to Paris, France with five kilos of cocaine hidden in a suitcase. Another individual, from the Dominican Republic, was also arrested before attempting to fly to Madrid, Spain, with capsules of cocaine in the stomach. Both suspects were flying from the Las Americas airport in Santo […]
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Official in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico have arrested 2 individuals caught with 313 kilos of marijuana. The drugs were separated into 29 packages, according to San Diego Red. Soldiers, acting on an anonymous tip, travelled to a house in the Ampliación Lucio Blanco neighborhood, where they discovered the drug. A firearm and 3 […]
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1,484.9 kilos of drugs have been seized in various locations in the Americas, Europe, and Asia so far in 2012. The total value of these drugs is valued at over $190 million, El Universo reports. Several notable seizures include one that took place in the Milan, Italy airport in January, when police arrested five people […]
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Homes-security-located in the southern colonies of the city were raided by members of various police forces that are behind the search for two men and a woman who led a crime on Wednesday at noon in the outside a home located in the subdivision Los Alamos II Ceibas exactly in the streets and Pines. An […]
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A narcotúnel that connected to a home in Nogales, Sonora to another in the neighboring state of Arizona, was discovered in the border region for public safety elements of both sides, who also located and arrested suspected drug traffickers in drugs. Around 19:30 am on Monday, corporations of Nogales, Sonora received an anonymous message to […]
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The Mexican Ministry of National Defense informed the detection of a tunnel the border of Sonora going into San Luis Arizona. The tunnel had a depth of 18 meters and a length of 230 meters, and was used to transport drug packages across the US border. Read Article
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This weekend it was revealed that agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration killed a suspect during an operation in Honduras. The agency says it is the first time his agents kill someone in Central America since they began participating in counternarcotics missions in the region. And there are several analysts who claim that, for […]
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Uniforms and ammunition that apparently were destined for Colombia’s rebel groups were seized by the Special Operations Group (GOE) of the National Police, in a house located in the northern city of Tulcan. The operation was performed Thursday afternoon on the streets and Uruguay Basin. The head of the GOE in Carchi, Lieutenant Henry Acosta […]
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Customs officials in Hong Kong announced the seizure of 649 kilos of cocaine, the largest drug discovery ever made in the city. The drugs were found inside a truck that was traveling to the industrial zone of the city, Diario Hoy reports. The shipment had arrived in the country on a ship at the Kwai […]
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A driver abandoned his vehicle at a shopping center in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, after police attempted to stop him. The vehicle was transporting 551 kilos of marijuana and 1 kilo, 65 grams of crack cocaine. According to Ultima Hora, the shipment of drugs was heading toward Foz de Yguazú as its final destination. The […]
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An unidentified Venezuelan citizen, 29, was caught in the Caracas airport attempting to fly to Europe with 60 sacs of liquid cocaine. According to El Tiempo, the suspect had tried to board flight AZ-687 of the Alitalia airline on the Rome-Milan route. After the suspect had expelled the drugs, security officials determined the total weight […]
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Miss Rojjana Thonglor (34) of Thailand was arrested in the Cusco airport in Peru after officials discovered she was attempting to fly to Lima via Sao Paulo with drugs. Officials first spotted her displaying suspicious behavior as she was shopping on the first floor of the airport. Upon searching her suitcase, cereal bags containing 5.21 […]
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The Federal Police, together with the Marines, discovered and seized about a half-ton of marijuana on the beach at Popotla in Baja California. The drugs were found in an abandoned dinghy, El Universal reports. About 200 packages of drugs were discovered. No arrests were reported. Read Article
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The Marine Corps in Ecuador seized 430 kilograms of marijuana on a beach in the Esmeraldas province. The operation occurred in the town of Rocafuerte, according to a report published by El Telegrafo. Two Colombians were arrested during the seizure. Their names were not reported; however, one of the suspects was undocumented. Ecuador has seized […]
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Mexico: Explosion in Cancun Mexico left 10 wounded individuals. On July 4th there were a total of 10 worker individuals resulting with third degree burns caused by an explosion occurring in a hotel under construction in Cancun, Mexico. The explosion was caused by the accumulation of gas resulting from the labor done by welding staff. […]
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Mexico: 12 members of a human trafficking group were sentenced 617 years in Jail A group of 12 members of a human trafficking group “Leones” were sentenced to 617 years and payment of 12 million 340 thousand and 905 pesos . The Attorney General demonstrated the involvement of the group of 12 members in crimes […]
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Six prostitutes, two managers, two workers, and an eyewitness were arrested at a hotel in Apizaco for crimes of human trafficking. The hotel, located near the bus station, also lacked health and safety measures, Milenio reports. Vermin were found on the location. The hotel also violated a non-smoking law in the state. The names of […]
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Five soldiers and four civilians were caught carrying 603 kilos of cocaine while traveling along a highway in Colombia in the Antioquia area. The suspects were wearing camouflage clothing and were carrying weapons. According to Terra Noticias, a lieutenant and a corporal were among the arrested individuals. The van in which they travelled was stopped […]
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Police from Ecuador and Belgium helped to intercept a shipment of cocaine that arrived in the port of Antwerp. 41 kilograms of the drug had been hidden in a shipment of bananas that originated in Guayaquil,Ecuador, El Mundo reports. The cocaine had been transported in refrigerated containers on a merchant ship. An international agreement allowed […]
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Alessandro Maria Maesano, head of the Italian Ndrangheta mafia wanted on multiple counts of narco-trafficking in Italy, was discovered in Santa Cruz, Bolivia after over a year of intelligence work. According to Los Tiempos, he had entered Bolivia via Chile with a false identity. The Ndrangheta is one of the largest mafias in Italy and […]
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Security officials in Venezuela discovered 220 grams of liquid cocaine in an international shipping company. The drug was intended to be sent to Madrid, Spain, Ultimas Noticias reports. Officials state the discovery was made after intensive intelligence work. It was found contained within a cardboard box after an X-ray machine displayed shadows not typical of […]
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Julio César Salas Reyes, known also as Julio Salas Quiñones, was arrested by Army officials and is accused of operating the Arellano Félix cartel in Tijuana. During the arrest, a rifle, three shotguns, cartridges, a vehicle, and four cell phones were seized, CNN Mexico reports. Authorities believe Salas Reyes organized the clandestine arrival of a […]
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In an operation called “Health and Life,” police in Managua, Nicaragua were able to detect and dismantle a marijuana production and packaging laboratory. The laboratory was discovered inside the residence of María Luisa Matus Ruiz. According to Multinoticias, she was discovered alone and was not arrested, as officials are working to determine whether she was […]
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Camilo Torres Martínez (30), alias “Fritanga” or “Mentira,” was captured shortly after getting married and guests arrived to celebrate his wedding for a week on Múcura Island. He was wanted for narco-trafficking, specifically to Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States. According to La Tribuna, he belonged to the Los Urabeños drug trafficking organization. […]
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Ten people are dead after a shootout between rival drug trafficking organizations in the state of Mexico. Five others involved in the conflict were injured. According to El Universo, one of the gangs involved was the Familia Michoacana. The rival gang was not reported. Several of the offenders in the shootout fled to the neighboring […]
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A small plane crashed in the mountainous region near Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras that was carrying 600 kilograms of cocaine. One of the passengers, Elías Aureliano Herrera Silva, was killed in the crash, La Prensa reports. The other passenger, George Luis Herrera Bueno, suffered serious injuries, including fractures, and was transported to a hospital in the […]
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Two drug mules were arrested in the Santo Domingo airport after attempting to board flights 6500 and UX088 operated by Air Europa and Iberia. According to El Caribe, both women were carrying cocaine. Carina María Ogando Tavarez (19) was carrying 87 bags of cocaine inside a brown suitcase. The drugs were detected after passing through […]
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Federal police in Zacatecas detained a man carrying 270 kilos in the false bottom of a truck near the border with Jalisco. Cesar Julián Ramírez Cruz (20) admitted he was paid 15,000 pesos to carry the drugs from Guadalajara to Reynosa. He was arrested after police spotted a suspicious red truck and conducted a search, […]
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Peru. A Bulgarian, a Canadian and three Peruvians were arrested at the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Peru, in Lima, by attempting to move this drug to Spain. The Bulgarian, identified as Ladenov TM, (30), was arrested with 1.9 kilos of cocaine hidden in his body, mummy mode, while the Canadian George BP (28), was […]
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Marijuana plantations belong to the variety and were planted red bow on tubers in the area. Some 34 000 marijuana plants were destroyed in two operations by drug agents of the Huallaga Police Front, which in turn seized more than a kilo, camouflaged in buckets of fruit and Maygotingo Chaupiyunca sector, Chinchao district in the […]
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Seventy members of the National Police worked in the rescue work of the fire in the building of Chambers, north of Guayaquil, yesterday. According to Marcelo Tobar, commander of Zone No. 8, the police team was present at five minutes of completing the distress alarm. This allowed three adults, one of them pregnant, and less […]
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According to a report published by El Sol, Brazilian drones will be used to help detect narco-trafficking and drug production activity in Bolivia. The two countries share a 1,300 kilometer border through jungle terrain. Drones had been used in a two-day operation in Santa Cruz, in which 240 cocaine factories and a clandestine airstrip were […]
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The police department of Risaralda, Colombia seized eight kilos of heroin worth 150 million pesos. Two men and two women were arrested during the operation, La Tarde reports. They are suspected of involvement in a drug trafficking ring that uses cars to camouflage the drugs. The operation occurred in the sector known as La Postrera, […]
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The National Drug Control of the Dominican Republic, the Coast Guard, and the U.S. DEA together in a joint operation seized a little over a ton of cocaine along the coast by Baní. The operation occurred in international waters at night on June 29, 2012. According to Globedia, 36 bags of cocaine were found on […]
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The Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources in the Misiones province of Argentina, along with a team of mobile forest inspectors, discovered two trucks carrying illegal timber. The trucks were discovered in San Vicente and were carrying the timber without approved documentation. According to Agencia Hoy, the wood was transported to police headquarters in San […]
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Marcela Gabina Franco Bogado (43), was arrested outside her home in the Santa Ana district of Asuncion, Paraguay. She is accused of recruiting youths to traffick drugs, particularly cocaine, to Europe in their stomachs and genitals, according to a Color ABC report. A mule captured in the capital’s airport in September 2011 with capsules of […]
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The National Police in Colombia announced that Edison Antonio Pelaez (49), alias “Mincho,” was arrested on a farm in Montenegro, around 185 kilometers west of Bogota. Mincho is suspected of involvement in the Los Rastrojos gang, La Tercera reports. He is believed to have attempted to assume control of the drug-trafficking paramilitary organization. Officials consider […]
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Undeniably, Iran and Venezuela share common interests. Their cooperation began more than 50 years ago, in Baghdad, Iraq. In 1960, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia founded OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Countries) to ensure good sales terms for themselves from foreign oil companies. Thus, the good relationship between Iran and Venezuela is more than […]
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Police arrested five people in the Buenos Aires area after discovering 3,030 kilograms of cocaine and substances used to treat it. 13 raids were performed in the area, leading to the seizure of the substances, La Razon reports. Three of the detained individuals are reported to be citizens of Peru, Paraguay, and Argentina. They are […]
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A mother and daughter were arrested in the Zanjón de Cúa sector of Miranda state, Venezuela for drug trafficking, drug consumption, and illegal possession of a weapon. The two were arrested after officials raided their residence and discovered a gun without a permit. Seven bundles of marijuana and cash were also found, El Universal reports. […]
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20 kilos of cocaine valued at 2 million quetzales were discovered inside a commercial plane that made a stop in the Guatemala City airport after departing from Orlando, Florida, United States. According to El Salvador.com, the cocaine was found in 40 bags in the food preparation area of the plane. It was found when a […]
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While police were operating a routine traffic checkpoint along National Route 188 near Loreto, a grey truck attempted to elude the stop. When it was evident it was going to flee the scene, police chased it for several minutes, SM Corrientes reports. The truck was found abandoned on the side of the road. 17 burlap […]
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The National Drug Control of the Dominican Republic announced that three people riding in a Jeep were arrested with 12 packages of cocaine. According to El Nacional, one of the individuals apprehended was Sergio Bolívar Germán, Sergeant Major of the National Police. The two other suspects were identified as Marciano Segundo Peña and Héctor José […]
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Anti-narcotics police seized 460 kilos of cocaine at kilometer 86 of the Frederico Basadre highway in Ucayali, Peru. The drugs were hidden inside a tanker truck, according to Peru 21. The truck had previously left from the town of Pucallpa. The mayor of Puerto Pizana, José Abelardo Payano Omalaza, was detained, as well as the […]
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The Mexican Navy discovered a clandestine laboratory used to make synthetic drugs near the recent crash site of a Navy helicopter in Jalisco. Officials have not yet stated whether the laboratory and the helicopter crash are related, Charter reports. The laboratory was found 30 kilometers northeast of Pihuamo. The cause of the helicopter crash has […]
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French police in the port of Le Havre seized 113 kilos of cocaine stored in three plastic bags that were hidden in containers transporting tuna cans. The shipment is believed to have originated in Ecuador, Andes reports. The cocaine is valued at seven million euros. Drug trafficking organizations have been known to use ports in […]
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Abigaíl Juncos Trinidad, alias “Viga” and Amadeo Wenceslao Junco Grijalva, alias “Maya” were captured in Guatemala. The two were wanted in Florida, the United States, for crimes of drug trafficking and conspiracy. According to Siglo 21, they were planning to distribute several kilos of cocaine and were intending to import the drug into the United […]
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Upon identification of perpetrators, victims also recognized several of his belongings, such as chains, clothing, sweatshirts, pants, cell phones and identification documents. In the raids, authorities seized several vehicles and two motorcycles used by the band. One of the motorcycle was reported stolen after a Brazilian national who announced the sale of this online. “Stakeholders, […]
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Continuing the strong offensive carried out by men of the army against the FARC terrorist organization in the last hours eight explosive devices were located in the departments of Caquetá, Valle del Cauca and Antioquia, says press release from the institution. In the first military action, troops attached to the Specific Command of Caguan found […]
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Officials in Colombia have announced that 564 hectares of illegal crops, mostly coca leaves, have been eradicated. The crop fields were located in various areas around the country. They are thought to belong to FARC members and other criminal organizations in the area, who would use them for drug production and distribution, the Comando General […]
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Federal police in Yurécuaro, Michoacán, Mexico caught five suspects in possession of drugs, weapons and a grenade, El Sol de Morelia reports. Those detained were: Carlos Enrique Hernandez Miravendes (35), Jose Armando Mosqueda Mena (18), Victor Alfonso Gomez Garcia (17), Alejandro Martinez Rodriguez ( 22), and Job Gev Robles Flores (25). They were captured on […]
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After two raids in Merliot City, El Salvador, police arrested four people charged with trafficking drugs. 142 portions of cocaine, valued at about $3 thousand, and a 12-mm gun were seized, El Mundo reports. Investigators stated that the arrests were the product of a two-month investigation. José Carlos Sosa (39), Julio César Cortez Flores (32), […]
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After three federal police officers were shot by two other officers in the Mexico City airport on June 25, 2012, officials have been investigating an international drug trafficking network operating within the airport. According to Milenio, drug shipments from Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala were permitted through the airport. Corrupt federal agents would encourage customs agents […]
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Police in Chile arrested three people with 115 kilos of marijuana along Route 68. The suspects had picked up the drug near a shopping center in Cerrillos, Emol reports. The police, working on a tip from witnesses who saw the drug exchange, followed the vehicle along Route 28 toward Valparaiso. The suspects attempted to flee […]
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The remains of a helicopter of the Navy (Semar) who disappeared on Friday while traveling in Manzanillo, Colima, Morelia, Michoacan were located in Jalisco. There were no reports of survivors. The remains of the Panther were found 18 kilometers east of the town of Pihuamo, Jalisco, where it hit the top of a mountain, Semar […]
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Seven women, led by a homosexual subject, were arrested on Midsummer Day, after police succeed in identifying them as the people who were doing various robberies in the crowded beach Tingo, where they had gathered more than thirty thousand people. After capture, were recovered over thirty cell phones, cameras and camcorders recently stolen. The police […]
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Ecuador will not send their military and police to the U.S. to be trained in the former School of the Americas, which challenges human rights violations committed by several of his students , the government announced today. The government “has decided that is not going to send more officers or soldiers or members of the […]
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Before the fifth district judge hearing criminal Managua, Julio Cesar Arias, Colombian Luis Felipe Ríos Castaño, arrested on June 14 in Nicaragua, admitted the charge of the Office of that country who said to seek “information restricted and reserved the country on defense and national security. ” He said his attorney, the Nicaraguan Silvia Sanchez, […]
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At least 19 people have been arrested and six more are on the loose after National Police in Nicaragua broke up an international drug-trafficking ring. The arrests occurred after an investigation into the 140 packets of cocaine found on June 19, 2012 in San Carlos, Río San Juan, which were hidden inside seven barrels. According […]
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Police in Santiago, the Dominican Republic, announced that a well-known drug dealer and one other person were killed in Los Reyes. According to Listin Diario, the victims were Gilberto Antonio Estévez Abreu (36), alias “La Pava” and Denny Enríquez Rosario Tejada (38), alias “El Pájaro.” They died of multiple gunshot wounds. The shooter or shooters […]
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Cuba has seized 1.44 tons of drugs during the first months of 2012, primarily along its coasts, El Nuevo Herald reports. Most of the drugs are marijuana packets that enter along coastal points, where Caribbean traffickers can easily avoid controls and checkpoints. Between January and May 2012, officials were able to intercept 24 drug operations, […]
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Raids on two houses in Guayas, Peru, revealed almost a ton of cocaine that was supposedly destined for the United States and Europe. Seven people were arrested during the operation, Radio Centro reports. In one of the houses, a laboratory was discovered, in which cocaine was hidden inside cans of tuna. Neighbors claimed to have […]
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Eight individuals were taken into custody on June 25, 2012 after officials caught them with hundreds of doses of cocaine, crack, marijuana, and narcotics ready to sell. According to Diario Lider, this was not the first report of drug marketing reported in the colonial zone of Santo Domingo, but officials had increased surveillance and intelligence […]
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A homemade semi-submersible was discovered hiding among weeds and mud on a small island, near Puna Island, in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The semi-submersible was approximately 15 meters long and 4 meters wide, according to a report released by El Universo. It was found on June 25, 2012 through a joint effort carried out […]
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The foreigners were arrested Saturday afternoon, 12 miles from the town of Canoa, San Vicente, by members of the Navy who noticed the presence of three men in a speedboat (go fast) color lead. The boat has three outboard motors 350 hp and is the latest technology, said those involved in the operation. It was […]
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A large shipment of drugs was intercepted in the afternoon on June 25, 2012 at the Port of Maracaibo, Venezuela. In total, 21 tons of drugs were seized. The type of drug was not specified, but Panorama reports that they were tucked inside rolls of water-proofing material. The drug was found in a storage area, […]
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A Cessna airplane was discovered at a clandestine airstrip in Mexicali, Mexico. It contained 84 total packages with 434 kilos and 610 grams of marijuana, and 12 packages containing 13 kilos and 36 grams of cocaine. The plane was detected by radar and satellite surveillance, San Diego Red reports. Jesús Lindbergh Gómez García and Juan […]
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During a home raid in Comayagua, Honduras, 20 pounds of C4 explosives, military and police vests, military equipment, cameras and ammunition were seized. The previous weekend, another home in the same area had been raided. On June 24, 2012, 32 kilos of cocaine were discovered in false compartments in a vehicle. Police officials believe there […]
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A man was caught in Placeres, Valparaíso, Chile with 140 doses of cocaine during a routine police patrol. According to Soy Valparaiso, the suspect attempted to flee the police to prevent them from noticing him. After he was caught, officials found he was carrying 34 doses of cocaine. Police then inspected his home, in which […]
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Package explodes in post office in Mexico in the Doctors. A bomb exploded today in the offices of Correos de Mexico, located in Colonia Doctors, presumably, the explosive device was inside a box that had as target the Women’s Social Rehabilitation Center of Tepepan.The balance was an employee injured by burns, and was admitted to […]
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Ten people were arrested after a truck supposedly transporting a timber shipment was stopped in Pilar, Argentina. Over a ton of marijuana was discovered inside, El Siglo reports. The investigation leading to the capture began three months previously when officials realized there was a marijuana ring operating in the Pilar and González Catán areas. After […]
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Sigfrido Altagracia Guerrero Arias was arrested in the Americas International Airport in the Dominican Republic, where he was intending to board a JetBlue plane to New York with cocaine capsules in his stomach. The suspect had been linked to a Puerto Rican drug network that would transport to the United States, Diario Libre reports. The […]
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A suspected narco-trafficker was shot by a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) official during a raid in a small village in Honduras. According to DEA spokesperson Dawn Dearden, this is the first time an official has killed someone since the agency began sending support to aid local security forces in Latin America, El Informador reports. […]
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Borja Alvaro Fernandez, a Spanish citizen, was arrested in the international airport in Lima, Peru, after officials found him with 3 kilos of drugs. The suspect claimed he was being extorted by two Colombian drug traffickers, who forced him to work as a mule in exchange for freeing his girlfriend, who had been kidnapped. They […]
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After three years of research, the Colombian police the whereabouts of a band called “The Carranza.” The gang, made up of six criminals, was devoted exclusively to the cloning of ATM cards. The tentacles of this band came to four countries in the region: Venezuela, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Read Article
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A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent shot and killed a suspected trafficker during a sting operation in northeastern Honduras, a U.S. embassy spokesman in the central American nation said on Sunday. “During the operation, a DEA agent fired on a suspected drug dealer when he tried to use his weapon. The agent protected his own […]
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Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo was removed from office on Friday at 18:30 hours following an impeachment vote in the Senate where the motion was supported by 39 votes, four against and two absent. Minutes later, riots broke out in the square next to Congress when hundreds rejected the vote expressing support for the ousted former […]
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Hundreds of Bolivian policemen, accompanied by their wives, have begun to plunder and destroy the headquarters of the intelligence of your institution and burning the files, close to the Palace of Government of La Paz, the capital of the country.Agents came out of the barracks unit tactics of police operations (UTOP), which already took by […]
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Japanese delegates to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took a wrong turn in the city and wound up in a favela. There, they found themselves surrounded by armed narco-traffickers, Clarin reports. One of the cars was able to flee the area, but another was trapped. Those who escaped […]
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Members of the gendarmerie in Argentina discovered 25 kilos of cocaine in an ambulance operating on emergency runs in the province of Salta. The discovery occurred after the ambulance, which had its sirens and lights on, was stopped by security forces in the town of Tartagal. The drugs were then found inside the vehicle, El […]
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A 50-year-old man was arrested in Chillán, Chile with 136 bundles of coca paste. 69 thousand pesos were also seized, Soy Chile reports. The discovery and arrest occurred after police received an order to investigate the shack in which the man lived, in Vicente Perez Rosales, Chillán. The man faces charges of drug micro-trafficking. His […]
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An armed group broke into the regional office of the Attorney General in Apatzingán, Michoacán, Mexico on June 22, 2012. There, they released two suspected narco-traffickers and killed one police officer in the process. The narco-traffickers were identified as Julio Acevedo and Joel Contreras Cardenas Cardenas, El Nuevo Diario reports. The police officer was Javier […]
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The Mexican army found over 22 tons of marijuana, seven kilos of “crystal,” and 500 grams of marijuana seeds in the Cucapah military settlement. According to El Imparcial, the discovery has a market value of over 10 million dollars, though the value would multiply if sold in the United States.The seizure occurred after soldiers spotted […]
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Police in Santa Cruz, Colombia discovered and destroyed two drug laboratories. They were five kilometers apart, according to a La Razon report, suggesting they were connected. The laboratories were strategically placed near ecotourism cabins in El Condor and were obscured in bushes, making them difficult to access. Excessive vehicle activity in such a remote area […]
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Four Huila police officers were arrested for the crimes of fabrication, trafficking, and possession of drugs, as well as conspiracy. The officers had been involved in the transportation of cocaine paste by car, according to El Tiempo. They will be brought to the criminal court in the Justice Palace for their first hearings on June […]
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Anti-narcotics officials found that drug deals occur near 25 schools in El Alto, Bolivia, some of the deals including students themselves. This information was released during a public safety fair on June 20, 2012 as collaborative effort including multiple police units and the help of 20 students, La Razon reports. The drugs most commonly sold […]
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The municipal cemetery in Guayubín, Dominican Republic, in the Monte Cristi province, has been utilized as a drug-dealing location, officials say. Intelligence work led security officials to capture several members of a drug ring operating in the cemetery recently, Diario Lider reports. Those detained include Ramón Miguel Ramírez Peña (49), alias “Ramoncito;” Braulio Almonte Peña […]
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A couple from Bolivia was arrested in Salta, Argentina, after the National Gendarmerie discovered cocaine inside their vehicle. Officials stopped the car along National Route 9 as a part of an operation called “Vigía,” El Siglo reports. With the help of a drug-sniffing dog, police searched their vehicle, a Mitsubishi, and found rectangular packages inside […]
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The manager of Venezuela’s drone program is an engineer who helped build ballistic missiles for Iran. The engineer’s identity raises new questions about the purposes behind Venezuela’s drone program. But it’s also only one part of a mystery involving drones shipped from Iran to Venezuela while hidden in secret cargo containing possibly more military hardware […]
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Five subjects captured was the result of an intensive operation carried out yesterday morning by agents of the Judicial Police, PJ, after the assault and theft to the credit union and Cooperation, Sayausí agency. Cevallos Germain, head of the PJ, said that for 15 days following the movements were agents of the criminal gang to […]
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Police in San Felipe, Chile arrested Luis Alberto Fernández Torres (40), alias “Rumpi,” a narco-trafficker wanted for dealing cocaine in the city center and surrounding areas, Mi San Felipe reports. He was arrested on a residential street and has a criminal record of burglary, illegal possession of a firearm, and drug trafficking, among others. 21 […]
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Police in Copiapo, Chile arrested 8 individuals in connection with a drug trafficking ring operating in cities throughout the country. The arrest occurred after one suspect attempted to flee police at a vehicle checkpoint, resulting in a chase and capture. Rectangular packages of drugs were found in the backseat of the truck. The passengers attempted […]
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A 24-year-old man from the Merida state of Venezuela was caught in the Simón Bolívar International Airport as he attempted to fly to Rome, Italy with 70 sacs of cocaine in his stomach. The total weight of the drugs was 1 kilo, El Tiempo reports. The flight was operated by the Alitalia airline. The plane […]
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The Bolivarian National Guard seized 330 kilos of marijuana in the Tachira area after noticing irregular cattle movements along a path between Tachira and Capache. Upon investigating, officials discovered 7 sacks containing 336 panels of marijuana weighing 330 kilos. The location of the drugs was approximately 5 miles from the border with Colombia in the […]
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Police in Paraguay arrested Colombian Ulisis Peñalosa (57) and Venezuelan Fernando Stimac (43) in Asunción for drug possession. According to El Tiempo, police discovered cocaine during a raid on two houses in the city, one in Villa Morra and the other in Santísima Trinidad. Police reported 266 packages of cocaine were found in the first […]
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A Venezuelan citizen was arrested in the Santo Domingo international airport after security officials discovered 17 kilos of cocaine in his suitcase. According to El Tiempo, the cocaine had been stored in 16 various packages. The suspect taken into custody was reported to be Jeampiero Alexander Moreno Clavijo, 32. He was attempting to travel with […]
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A Nigerian citizen was stopped at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía after attempting to board a plane bound for Lisbon, Portugal, with a stop in Accra, Ghana. The suspect had been carrying a brown leather suitcase with 5 compartments, in which the cocaine was concealed. According to El Tiempo, he was carrying a […]
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