SANTA ANA, Calif. — A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder pleaded not guilty to running a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple killings, as one of the FBI’s…
Read more Ex-Olympic snowboarder accused in drug smuggling ring heads to courtMexico’s security minister said Tuesday that it had sent another 37 members of Mexican drug cartels to the United States, as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on…
Read more Mexico sends 37 cartel members to U.S. amid pressure from Trump administration‘The speed…the violence…it was an amazing thing,’ President Trump said of the clandestine military op that saw the Maduro family arrested and flown for US warship headed to…
Read more Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ArrestedThe U.S. Coast Guard said late Friday it has called off a dayslong search for several people in the Eastern Pacific who jumped overboard when their alleged drug-trafficking…
Read more Coast Guard suspends search for alleged drug smugglers who jumped overboard after U.S. strikeA Twin Cities man was sentenced earlier this month to more than two decades in prison for his role in an international drug trafficking operation. In March, Clinton James…
Read more Twin Cities man sentenced to 23 years in prison for role in international drug trafficking ringThe U.S. military said Thursday that it had conducted two more strikes against boats it said were smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing five people.U.S. Southern…
Read more US military says 2 strikes on alleged drug boats kill 5 in eastern PacificA high-ranking Mexican drug cartel leader accused of faking his death to avoid capture was sentenced Thursday to more than 11 years in U.S. prison for his money…
Read more Cartel leader accused of faking his death toThe U.S. military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on Sept. 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone…
Read more US military carries out second strike, killing survivors on suspected drug boat, sources sayColombia made its largest cocaine bust in a decade, authorities announced Friday, with 14 tons confiscated at its main Pacific port amid tensions with Washington, which has branded…
Read more Sniffer dogs help uncover 14 tons of cocaine at Colombia port, marking biggest bust in a decadeMexican authorities arrested a man Tuesday who is accused of being involved in planning and ordering the fatal shooting of the mayor of a Mexican state during a…
Read more Suspect arrested in assassination of Mexican mayor who pushed government to tackle violent crimeMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday ruled out allowing U.S. strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, a day after President Trump said he was willing to do whatever…
Read more Warning signs appear on Mexican beach declaring area restricted by U.S. as Mexico rejects Trump offer to strike cartelsVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro indicated Monday that he is open to direct talks with the Trump administration, calling for diplomacy instead of confrontation as the U.S. Navy’s most…
Read more Venezuela’s Maduro says he’s open to face-to-face talks with Trump as U.S. warships close inOne of Ecuador’s most wanted drug traffickers was captured Sunday, years after he faked his death and moved to Spain. Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said that Wilmer Chavarria,…
Read more Leader of powerful Ecuadorian drug syndicate targeted by U.S. captured in Spain 4 years after faking his deathA former Customs and Border Protection officer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to working with Mexican traffickers to bring drugs into…
Read more Former customs officer sentenced to 15 years for helping drug traffickersThe U.S. military conducted another strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Tuesday, a Pentagon official confirmed to CBS News. The attack targeted a vessel in the Caribbean…
Read more U.S. conducts 20th strike on alleged drug boat, killing 4 people in Caribbean SeaPanamanian authorities on Tuesday announced a large seizure of U.S.-bound cocaine on a ferry in the Pacific, at a time Washington is upping an anti-drug military deployment in Latin…
Read more 13 tons of cocaine bound for the U.S. seized from ferry in Pacific, Panama saysA 16-year-old soccer player from the youth academy of Independiente del Valle was fatally shot when he was struck by a stray bullet at home in the port…
Read more Soccer player, 16, killed by stray bullet in Ecuador, 4th player killed by gunfire this yearA Mexican journalist who covered drug trafficking has been murdered, officials told AFP on Monday, the latest casualty in a country notoriously dangerous for reporters. The reporter, Miguel…
Read more Journalist who covered drug cartels murdered in Mexico; message left next to body, reports sayPHILADELPHIA — More than two dozen people have been indicted on drug-related charges as part of a yearslong investigation into a gang in Philadelphia, the Federal Bureau of…
Read more FBI indicts dozens in Philadelphia on drug chargesThe Pentagon said the U.S. is deploying the Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Caribbean, along with its strike group.…
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