The Army and Air Force bombed the last hours the camp considered the mother of the People’s Liberation Army, PLA in the province of Ocaña in Norte de Santander. The authorities revealed that an operation to terminate drawn the most subversive leader of that organization, Victor Ramon Navarro, “Alias Megateo” left a toll of seven […]
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Men of ERPAC been delivered three tons of weapons and ammunition From Thursday, judicial authorities are in Villavicencio (Meta) members of this criminal gang who chose to willingly submit to justice, as announced in an interview with Semana head of this group, alias ‘Caracho’ last November. Caracho’, who inherited the leadership of the Anti-Revolutionary Army […]
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United States today announced a joint venture of seizures of more than 327 000 articles in 66 piracy cities and in 55 of Mexico and the South Korean capital, worth more than $ 80 million. The operation “Fraud Christmas 2”, made in a period of six weeks, included raids on shops, street markets and other […]
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The Government awaits with anticipation and caution the release of approximately 300 members of the gang ERPAC (Subversive Popular Revolutionary Army of Colombia) which begins today. Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón said that the Public Force is attentive support the process of bringing to justice members of the ERPAC. Erpac (Ejército Revolucionario Popular Antisubversivo de […]
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The National Police launched a crackdown last aparatamenteros bands in the country, especially in this time of year when families come out to enjoy muchasd end holiday of the year. In the nationwide raids were captured 41 apartamenteros, whom they were seized 27 firearms, likewise, they were immobilized 24 cars and 6 motorcycles they used […]
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Four alleged Colombian paramilitaries Caracas belonging to the band “Los Rastrojos” were seized by officials of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) of Venezuela in the state of Tachira, which borders Colombia, reported the Venezuelan News Agency (VNA). Read Article
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The top leader of the gang of “los machos” and three of his lugarteneintes, were captured in the last hours by the National Police in the department of Valle. This is known as “Penguin”, who became head of the band after falling into the hands of the authorities thirteen members of the organization last month […]
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Brazilian linking illegal gambling syndicates from Russia and Israel The Brazilian Federal Police is investigating the possible relationship between Russian and Israeli mafia illegal gambling in Rio de Janeiro, money laundering, smuggling and sale of explosives, according to a report published on 11 by the newspaper “O Globo”.The Federal Police investigations point to an alleged […]
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There is presence of the Russian mafia in Santa Cruz. This was stated yesterday by the head of the Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC), Antonio Ovando, to take for the murder of Igor clarified Gorelkin Perez and submit to the alleged perpetrators of violent act attributed to an adjustment related to accounts drug trafficking. […]
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The Foreign Minister of Colombia, Maria Angela Holguin said yesterday that there are drug cartels seeking to enter Bolivia. Although not detailed names, emphasized that these cartels have “enormous” economic resources. The Colombian Foreign Minister arrived in the country on Monday to meet with similar Bolivian, David Choquehuanca, to address various issues on the bilateral […]
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The alleged leader of Los Zetas cartel in the state of Veracruz and one of the “37 most dangerous criminals” from Mexico was arrested today in the city of Córdoba, reported the Ministry of the Navy (Semar). Lettuce Raul Lucio Hernandez, aka “Lucky”, was captured in a ground operation in Cordoba, in the eastern state […]
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A total of 57 raids conducted in various parts of the south of Buenos, Buenos Aires policemen managed to seize a large quantity of weapons of all kinds, drugs ranging from marijuana to paco, and stolen cars, as confirmed by the Governor Daniel Scioli. The procedures were conducted by police personnel attached to the South […]
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Armed groups have been created by exparamilitares expanded to much of the country and constitute the greatest threat to the State, as alerted the local office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “The groups that emerged after the demobilization of paramilitary organizations pose the greatest threat to the rule of law and protection […]
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Tucson Sentinel.com reported: Arrests Douglas Station agents apprehended a 15-year-old Mexican boy for illegally entering the United States Friday night. He admitted to being a member of the Sureños 13 gang. He was held pending removal. Naco Station agents apprehended a Mexican man Friday for illegally entering the United States. The man claimed to be […]
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A joint operation between the State Preventive Police (PEP) and the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), culminated with the arrest of two individuals associated with organized crime, as they were caught with kilos of marijuana, firearms, cartridges and cash, also thanks to this arrest military elements managed to seize a ton of marijuana in Sonoyta. […]
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The National Defense Secretariat reported that the incident occurred on Thursday, December 1, in the municipality of Plutarco Elias Calles, the second seizure occurred when the soldiers were on a tour of the Cologne Ford, in the town of Sonoita, where they found 100 packages of marijuana weighing 366 gave kilos. The Army did not […]
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Mexican authorities found 167 antennas, radios 1446 and 1,306 cell phones in a network covering four states dominated by Los Zetas. The equipment was located and seized in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas, and several “members of criminal groups,” those who did not specify details, were arrested. The Department […]
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Federal District Elements of the Mexican army repelled an attack by alleged members of organized crime in Zacatecas, which killed three of his assailants, according to the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA). Reliance explained that the November 25 military personnel from the 11th Military Region conducted ground surveys in the community Huitzila, Teulada Gonzalez Ortega. Read […]
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A former director of a Peruvian airline pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to integrated a price-fixing with competitors in shipments from the U.S. to Latin America , after the hurricane “Katrina” and “Rita”. George Gonzalez, who was chief Skies Airlines commercial, pleaded guilty in Federal Court Southern District of Florida , which will help you […]
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The Army announced who surrendered voluntarily to military units in the south. According to the official report, there are three men and a woman who appeared before troops Military Police Battalion No. 3 ‘General Eusebio Borrero Acosta’, attached to the Third Brigade of the Army. Read Article
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Police in Quito have made a recent arrest in the Mariscal district which involved the sale of counterfeit U.S. bills and adulterated liquor which mimics in appearance expensive brands. There has been an influx of counterfeit $5.00, $10.00, and $20.00 denominations being sold for about half of the stated currency. Furthermore in many of the […]
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Some 6,500 Brazilian soldiers and ships supported by aircraft launched a major operation against illegal drug trafficking, weapons and goods at the borders with Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay, an official confirmed Thursday. Read Article
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The governor of Sinaloa, Mario Lopez, admitted yesterday that their children brought the country to avoid reprisals from organized groups. “Those who face crime must take risks and take” preventive Valdez Lopez said, noting that the “exercise government today is difficult and dangerous.” Read Article
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Thousands of fraudulent emails as the one below are being sent claiming to be NACHA. A call to the organization produces a recording saying that the emails are fraudulent. They also warn not to click on the link as it is a trick and your computer may become infected with a virus. The example below […]
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Elements of the Army dismantled a sophisticated communication system of the criminal group Los Zetas, worth around $ 350,000 and arrested four people who were in charge of its operation, according to the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA).The communication network was in a building of the colony Residencial La Hacienda in Torreon, Coahuila, and was assured […]
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Recently a report of the National Defense and Public Security Marina Federal Mexico revealed that only in 2011 four new groups have emerged of drug dealers. These groups seek to take control routes for drug trafficking and thus to expand their criminal activities in the country. The new gangs are the sign of the Knights […]
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Guatemalan President-elect Otto Perez Molina told Mexican newspaper El Universal on Nov. 9 that he plans to engage drug cartels in a “full frontal assault” when he takes office in 2012. The former general said he will use Guatemala’s elite military forces, known as Los Kaibiles, to take on the drug cartels in a strategy […]
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Security and Democracy Centre also ensures that military forces reduce their operations. “The floor of ‘Alfonso Cano’ should not obscure the complex and paradoxical situation of security in Colombia , however, that continues to fall slowly murder, guerrilla actions increase, the operations of the armed forces and most reduced urban safety indicators are deteriorating. ” […]
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So said Wednesday the Armed Forces commander, General Alejandro Navas.The officer warned that if the new leader of the FARC is in the territory of another country, would go to diplomatic mechanisms to seek his arrest. “If you are in another country and we had knowledge through military intelligence, would come to my superior officer, […]
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Exclusive Chinese merchants were threatened with death Balcarce. In the city there are at least two cases. They made the complaint and requested the intervention of justice. They were asked to pay $ 50,000 to operate. They talk about the Mafia China. “Owner: prepare $ 50,000. It gives an immediate telephone response if …”. Text […]
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President Rafael Correa was about to start your link citizen when his presidential website was attacked. Like thousands of people went to see his speech broadcast live, the site was down for over two hours. August 10 was the first time the government of Ecuador was attacked by Anonymous, hacker group, police said. Cybercrime has […]
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Elite troops of the Mobile Rural Patrol Unit (UMOPAR) yesterday took control of a narcolaboratorio was found a day earlier in the Isiboro Secure park in Beni territory, after 20 hours of combat with Colombian drug traffickers. There they found the body of a sniper. Drug Trafficking. Take narcolaboratorio obtained yesterday in Santa Rosa del […]
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In just two hours without firing a shot, the Brazilian authorities today regained control of the Rocinha favela flagship of Rio de Janeiro, and two other neighborhoods in which for decades the power was exercised by drug trafficking. With a lightning operation that did not find the least armed resistance, more than 1,500 members of […]
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Brazil Police on Thursday seized Bonfim Antonio Lopes, alias Nem, the drug kingpin “most wanted Rio de Janeiro” the sources said security force. Nem served as the leader of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio, in the southeast. Through a statement, the Brazilian police confirmed the arrest of Nem, 35, around midnight on Thursday “in […]
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The President Juan Manuel Santos, highlighted the results achieved by the institution in the fight against the guerrillas, criminal gangs and crime in the past 15 months. According to the president, from the August 7 last year the police have captured 1,247 fighters in total, and stressed that police operations have been neutralized as an […]
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Finance Minister, Patricio Rivera, reported that a large part of the increase in personnel costs for next year is explained by an increase of 4 000 police officers to the ranks of security. According to the pro forma 2012, submitted by the Executive to the Assembly, the personnel costs (payment of salaries to bureaucracy) will […]
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The Mayor of Medellin, Alonso Salazar, reported that two carriers of the northwest of the city have relations with criminal gangs of drug traffickers. “Are you complaining about a strong pressure from the majority owners, through criminal groups to bind, the other owners to sell their vehicle fleet”, said the president. Read Article
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More than a thousand children under 18 have died in the fight against organized crime, denounced the executive director of the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico (Redim), Juan Martín Pérez García, who stressed that the figures have increased, for while in 2007 there were 5.3 homicides of children per 100 000 inhabitants […]
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The Navy reported yesterday the seizure, 50 miles off the coast of Cartagena, a semisubmersible capable of loading up a ton of cocaine. The ship’s captain, Andrew Vasquez, Chief of Naval Force in the Caribbean, said the seizure was possible thanks to a joint operation between the navies of the United States and Colombia. Read […]
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The Manufacturers Association Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF) warned that “in emerging markets recently experienced a large increase in the sale of fake phones.”Bonturi Aderbal Pereira, MMF director for Latin America, said in an interview with Clarin that although it is difficult to give precise figures on the black market of cell phones have phony 200 […]
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Armed groups belonging to organized crime and drug trafficking, have threatened to attack the facilities of the National Penitentiary Marco Aurelio Soto (PNMAS) to try to free his cronies who are imprisoned in the jail, said yesterday the center’s director, Marvin Rajo. The police and military who protect modules are very high security alerts about […]
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In denouncing the existence of criminal gangs to steal your babies in public and private hospitals, the Chamber of Deputies, will try to become law, the installation of surveillance cameras in operating rooms and corridors of the hospitals, as well as placing electronic bracelets the little ones. In the analysis prepared by the advisory bodies […]
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Informal businesses engaged in selling or similar copies of police uniforms and insignia, in many cases, the institutions surrounding streets as the Public Security Secretariat (SSP), the Attorney General of the Federal District (PGJDF ) and the Auxiliary Police (PA), among others, without the law regulating the same premises granted and political delegations. As a […]
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As we warned yesterday the U.S. agency Stratfor and El Universal, the hacker group Anonymous activists, launched after a second warning against the drug cartels that restrict freedom of expression, this time specifically against “The Zetas “, this day was allegedly hacked the site of the former attorney of Tabasco, Gustavo Rosario Torres: www.gustavorosario.com which […]
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In just twelve hours, Hector Salcedo Torrenegra, aka Rambo, killed five people in Cartagena and Barranquilla. The offender, aged 21, is identified as the most bloodthirsty killer in the service of criminal gang ‘Los Rastrojos’ in the Eroica. His extensive criminal record including, police, murder, theft, illegal possession of firearms and conspiracy. Read Article
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In the different operations carried out last week to dismantle a drug gang attended by alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel found a white truck, PZP-531 plate, which was seen during the time of the surveillance operation “Pacific “. Hidden compartment located in vehicle used for drugs. No drugs located in the vehicle. Read Article
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Although the Navy considers the semi-submersibles and “submarines” to transport cocaine and heroin as “death chambers” drug dealers every day looking for new technologies that allow them to circumvent national and international authorities. In 1993, the intelligence services of the Navy laid bare the first semi-submersible used to transport cocaine, Much time has passed and […]
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Illegal logging of timber is now comparable to organized crime , as well as transport and transformation in irregular sawmills, and who become involved can receive up to nine years in prison, said Samuel Ibarra, head of the Office of Environmental Crimes (FEDAPUR ) of the Attorney General of the Federal District (PGJ-DF). Delegations Milpa […]
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In the pit of about 100 meters deep in the Linnet I was rescued a third body, who, according to state police reports the state of Zacatecas (PME), by the name of Ruben Esquivel Pacheco 40-year-old native of the town of Calera de Victor Rosales. Although everything seems that this triple murder was the work […]
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Just as our country entered the drug cartels, the Mafia also entered China. The police has not taken much. As entrepreneurs and business extortion, shot and killed citizens of that country or Taiwan. It seems that this is not enough reason to seriously address. What will happen when the Mafia, wild and violent, grow and […]
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The presidents of six public higher education institutions in Antioquia were threatened in a statement allegedly made by the FARC, in which the declared military targets continue working and teaching against the various student assemblies to protest against the reform education. Read Article
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Gen. McCaffrey and Gen. Scales – Prepared Report for the Texas Department of Agriculture During the past two years the state of Texas has become increasingly threatened by the spread of Mexican cartel organized crime. The threat reflects a change in the strategic intent of the cartels to move their operations into the United States. […]
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In the anti-Chinese western media like to talk about “Chinese mafia” to create a bad image of the great emerging power. Meanwhile, “pro-Chinese” (those who do good business with China) prefer to avoid that word. Yuri Doudchitzky of Zaichina, tells us not mince words how the oriental underworld does exist and is out of control […]
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Colombia Police seized 9 tons of marijuana in the department of Cauca (southwest), which he said belonged to the Sunday Marxist FARC guerrillas and were to be transported to Central America. The drug was found on Saturday in a house in a rural area of Corinth (Cauca) and have a black market value of $ […]
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Government authorities yesterday dismissed the presence in the country of international drug cartels hours after the death of a police Umopar in a clash with drug traffickers in a cocaine lab found in the Tipnis and after the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency U.S.) issued a report of its intelligence agencies that Mexican cartels have extended […]
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Human trafficking, also known as trafficking and exploitation of human beings, was hardly considered a crime when he entered the penal code in 2007.In July came into effect a new law that makes the research, who are responsible for the victim and the creation of special units, among other legal elements.Last spring, the City of […]
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Snow and Rebolo, two populous neighborhoods southeast of Barranquilla, have continued to be the epicenter of the underground factories of adulterated liquor, according to reports from the Metropolitan Police. The remark was made evident a couple of days ago when researchers Sijin, in coordination with the prosecutor, made operational in two houses accurate, achieving seize […]
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There are over 80 border crossings used by traffickers. Until the end of August there were 650 drug raids. Seized 25 tons of cannabis and arrested 42 people. 90% of prison inmates Candelaria are “mules”. At that time the Paraná mirror reflects only shade, water boatmen earn sheer necessity. Rowing load hurry and fear, unable […]
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The federal judge who succeeds to Eldorado Posadas, Jose Luis Casals, says there is a miscommunication of what is done in the area and swears he did well in the fight against drug trafficking, but said that the true origin of all there is defined in the Penal Code. “Drug trafficking is a cultural problem. […]
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Peru is at a critical time in their fight against drug trafficking to overcome for the first time in a decade in Colombia, which became the leading producer of pure cocaine, U.S. officials said at a legislative hearing in Washington. Appearing before the committee for the international drug control in the U.S. Senate, the intelligence […]
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The police captured 18 people for illegal mining retroexcavadoras inmovilizadas por la Policía. They said that among the transactions that took place during the weekend highlights the capture of 18 people who are linked to illegal acts. These arrests have been made official since the national government declared a military target this activity to consider […]
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Colombian Counternarcotics Police deployed a major operation against the business of the criminal gang, Anti-Subversive Popular Revolutionary Army of Colombia, ERPAC, whose leader is Eberto Lopez Montero, alias ‘Caracho’, El Espectador reports. According to the official report, the “mega” laboratory, located in Guaracu, Meta, was used mainly for the processing of cocaine. Read Article
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Colombian attorney aims to establish whether former officials and candidates in Antioquia, Córdoba and Chocó had link with the Elmer Cárdenas Bloc of the AUC, El Espectador reports. Read Article
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The bloody eruption of Mexican-led cartels into Guatemala is the latest chapter in a vicious cycle of violence and institutional failure. Geography has placed the country – midway between Colombia and the U.S. – at one of the world’s busiest intersections for illegal drugs. Cocaine (and now ingredients for synthetic drugs) flows in by air, […]
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President Hugo Chavez proposed the discussion today in the National Assembly a bill providing for the shooting down of aircraft suspected of drug trafficking when they ignore the order to land. The Venezuelan leader said in a televised speech that the law would aim to discourage those flights in Venezuelan territory. Addressing deputies in a […]
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Recently, a massive, peaceful march sought to draw attention to the Venezuelan incursions into the region Northeast Front elements “Domingo Lain Sáenz ‘ELN, one of the main guerrilla organizations in Colombia. The protesters, members of neighborhood associations, peasant and labor organizations and local NGOs reported that irregular force applied “policy of extermination against the communities […]
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546 kilos of cocaine were hidden in false bottoms of two commercial vessels on the Atrato River, in the area of Tagachi in Chocó, The National Army reports. Apparently, the captures planned to take the drugs to Turbo, which would then be transported by sea to Central America and then to North America where it […]
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Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón and senior military and police phased out a new strategy to prevent child recruitment by illegal group, El Espectador reports. This strategy is part of the Program for Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized peoples from the Ministry of Defense. So far this year (2011), more than 1,200 guerrilla fighters have demobilized, […]
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The criminal gang would initially threaten their victim by demanding 200 million pesos (US $ 100,000) in exchange for their safety, El Espectador reports. The band was disbanded due to a lawsuit in Boyacá by one of the victims. Detainees will be sentenced to 12 years in prison. Read Article
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The one-year investigation led the Colombian police to locate 10 members of the main structure of the Clandestine Communist Party of the FARC, known as the PC3, Caracol News reports. The police say that these suspects are directly related to the infiltration of student protests in Bogotá, Barrancabermeja, Cali and Bucaramanga. Read Article
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The sleepy port towns, mangrove swamps and jungle airstrips of poorly defended, tiny Belize are becoming prime gateways for drug trafficking as Mexico’s billionaire mafias carve out new smuggling routes through Central America.Using light aircraft and ultra-fast boats, traffickers are moving more and more South American cocaine through Belize into Mexico, U.S. narcotics agents and […]
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A surprise operation conducted by the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR) of the Police, on a farm located in the canton of Pichincha, Manabi, did the arrest of seven alleged members of the band Los Choneros. Read Article
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Troops of the Task Force to Combat Drug Trafficking (FELCN) discovered in recent days new forms of drug delivery attempts at international airports in the city of El Alto and Santa Cruz. On October 3, police found drugs at the airport in El Alto 3 kilos 322 grams of cocaine hidden neatly in the middle […]
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Officials from the Regional Intelligence Unit Drug Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) were able to detect 478 kilos of suspected high-purity cocaine on board Juergen Schulte anchored in the port of Ferrominera Orinoco in Ciudad Guayana, Bolivar State. The 478 kilos corresponded to 354 packages hidden in a compartment of the ship’s engine room with Spanish […]
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Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in the Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences – Recorded interview with author Dr. Sara Schatz (Recording Time- 01:13:53) Recorded October 07, 2011. Publisher: Springer, 2011, Volume 10 in Studies of Organized Crime. PURCHASE BOOK:Murder and Politics in Mexico: Political Killings in […]
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After the arrest of four Colombian and Venezuelan apparently be part of a gang of card cloners, investigative units of the affected banks analyze their security videos to find criminals. Yesterday morning, the Colombian Edwin Holguin, Javier Hernandez, Fernel Mauricio Tello and Ortiz, and Luis Rodriguez were presented by the Judicial Police (PJ) and detained […]
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Marticela Moreno Pérez, mother of 7, was shot three times a few meters away from family members, El Universal reports. The gunmen left in a red motorcycle. One person resulted wounded in the shooting as well, Alberto Avila Julio, 24. Both were taken to a hospital in Cartagena, where the woman was pronounced dead. The […]
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The Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration exposed the magnitude of land theft in Los Llanos, Colombia, El Tiempo reports. The land theft is greater than initially calculated. There were not 187,000 hectares as initially calculated, but at least 211 000 hectares, according to the latest report from the Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration. […]
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Some 30 premises where prostitution is practiced clandestinely sold adulterated alcoholic beverages were closed so far this year by the Municipality of Comas, in joint operations with the National Police. Among the establishments are closed “Sins”, “El Refugio”, “The Palmeritas” operating in the Tupac Amaru Avenue under the guise of bars and nightclubs, said the […]
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According to a study conducted by Citizens Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, nearly twenty-five percent of the most dangerous cities in the world are in Mexico. 1. Ciudad Juarez 298 murders per 100,000 2. Chihuahua 131 murders per 100,000 3. Mazatlán 89 murders per 100,000 4. Culiacán 88 murders per 100,000 5. Tepic […]
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Chacodiapordia.com reported members of the Bolivian Mennonites informed Argentine authorities they were deceived by three scammers when they purchased lands which belonged to the state in Chaco Province, Argentina. After paying 250 thousand dollars for 28 thousand hectares, the victims were unable to locate the thieves from Ciudad Termal. The suspects were detained after police […]
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FARC’s Black Pearl could not make its first trip in the Colombian Pacific, El Colombiano reports. The narco-submarine was built out of fiberglass and steel and was able to navigate itself 4 to 5 feet under water and could carry up to four tons of cocaine. According to the anti-narcotics police, this is the second […]
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Assistant superintendent Aníbal Domingo Castro Arjona and patrol officer Cristian Camilo Zambrano, active members of the Police force in Cesar, were captured in Casacara and La Gloria respectively, by agents of the same Institution, El Pais Vallenato reports. The Public Prosecutor (Fiscalia) asked the Second Penal Court of Valledupar for the orders of capture against […]
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Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos will send more troops to the country’s two southern provinces Narino and Cauca following a recent surge in drug-related violence. Santos said the number of armed forces in Narino, which is home to about 50 percent of Colombia’s illicit coca production, will be increased to 3,353 from 2,780 during the […]
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On 16 October 2010, the agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Darryl Galaway reported to the National Drug Control (DNCD) in the country operated an “international drug trafficking, with branches in Colombia Aruba and the United States, which used a boat identified as Tomahawk. ” Galaway established routes used by drug dealers to distribute […]
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Mexico ranks second in Latin American, after Brazil, as the country with the largest number of children sexually exploited and second in the world, after Thailand, in regards to most victims sent to the United States, El Occidental reports. According to a report by the Centre Against Trafficking, the worsening of poverty, unemployment, health, education, […]
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Colombian anti-narcotics police located and neutralized a modern submersible in the small town of Condoto, Choco, in Western Colombia, reports El Esperctador. The submersible, valued at 2 million US dollars, had a capacity to transport between 4 and 5 tons of cocaine. Anti-narcotics director, Carlos Enrique Rodriguez Gonzalez noted that the operation was achieved with […]
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Four injured in grenade explosion in urban area of Rio Negro. In this place called the Northern Forest Rionegro, unknown men threw a grenade into a family reunion, the balance: four people injured, three have already been discharged, and one more required surgical intervention. Read Article
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Police The police received special tanks to combat not only the terrorist attacks on pipelines, but also to thieves that the steal the petroleum.Police announced this weekend that the theft of gasoline was virtually eradicated in the country. Read Article
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Mary Elizabeth Castro Macias served as chief editor of the newspaper Primera Hora. The body of Mary Elizabeth Macias, the editor of the newspaper Primera Hora, was found yesterday in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, along with a blanket on which he was accused of passing reports of violent events in the city through social networks. Read […]
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Fifty-two people were sentenced in absentia by a court in the city of Cali for participating in a money laundering in an amount exceeding five million dollars, was officially reported Friday. The prosecution said in its website that the conviction was handed down by a criminal court of the city of Cali. The court also […]
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The Ministry of the Interior, through the National Police, is blocking all possible routes of entry and exit of supplies and drugs in the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene Rivers (VRAE), today announced the headline of this portfolio, Oscar Valdés. The Interior Minister, Oscar Valdes led the burning of more than 6 tons of […]
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Since this morning, four Navy helicopters from Mexico and the Mexican Army reconnaissance overflights made by different parts of northern Coahuila, while ground troops carried out dozens of operating in urban and rural for alleged members of organized crime. On board the helicopter including the type included two Black Hawk, the armed forces arrived in […]
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They specialized in forging passports to criminals until the police disrupted the laboratory that had assembled in a house in the district of Villa El Salvador. For a month, agents of the Division of scams following the organization and found that in a three-story building, located in the block D of urbanization Pachacamac sold handbooks […]
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A total of six subjects were arrested last night by Service personnel and Custom Vehicle Search (SEBV) of Police, charged with integrating a band dedicated to the theft and dismantling of vehicles in the capital. Captain Francisco Cabezas, in charge of the investigation, said that the group was three months ago and inquired into his […]
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This act added five tracks destroyed since last August, four of which are located in the Llanos and said entity in Anzoátegui state, a total of 41 clandestine airstrips located in 2011 used for drug trafficking, located between the rivers Siunaruco and Meta, Apure state, south of the country, reinforcing the fight for a territory […]
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According to the World Bank, the violence has become a major obstacle to economic development in Mexico , with Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua and above all, which shows the highest concentration. This is demonstrated by the perception of Mexicans who, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey on Public Safety 2011, increased the feeling of insecurity […]
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A former municipal police Veronica Moreno played him one time, more complicated and violent, most volatile and transient, more uncertain, as to try to consolidate at the top of a drug cartel, his aggressive character, with traits of leadership and command about the members of Los Zetas cells operating in San Nicolas de los Garza, […]
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You have only two: you either join them or you die, with the threat of death can not be sure that your children will be safe” was the testimony of Baldomero, a Guatemalan native who left home with the Mexico and the idea of crossing into the United States to earn dollars to rescue from […]
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