Tag: Drug Enforcement: Page 48

Schemes to Cross Border from Mexico Getting Bolder

In the past few months, officials have intercepted three ultralight aircrafts attempting to smuggle drugs into the U.S. The small planes fly so low they evade radar and have been particularly active on the Arizona-Mexico border.

May 6, 2009

Mexico to Start Screening Vehicles at Border

Unsupervised entry of cars and trucks from San Diego into Tijuana will soon be a thing of the past, Mexico's customs agency says. By midsummer, the Puerta Mexico checkpoint, through which drivers on Interstate 5 travel into Mexico, will be equipped with technology intended to help combat the southbound smuggling of guns, cash and other contraband by drug-trafficking organizations.

April 29, 2009

Broward County Deputies Kill Suspect in Fort Lauderdale Drug Sting

Fort Lauderdale homicide detectives continued Wednesday to investigate the fatal shooting of an alleged crack cocaine dealer by Broward Sheriff's Office deputies during an undercover drug sting.

April 22, 2009

FBI SWAT Action Near San Diego May Have Foiled L.A. Kidnapping

According to the complaint, the case began when the FBI's Major Mexican Traffickers Strike Force began to focus last year on a drug-smuggling ring allegedly headed by Armando Gonzalez. Over time, however, the focus shifted from drug smuggling to kidnapping as the strike force learned that Gonzalez's group was stalking people who purportedly had stolen a 2,500-pound load of marijuana from them.

April 16, 2009

Hillary Clinton Says U.S. Shares Blame for Drug War

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accepted shared responsibility Wednesday for the drug violence convulsing Mexico, saying that traffickers "are motivated by the demand for illegal drugs in the United States and are armed by the transfer of weapons from the United States."

March 25, 2009

U.S. Won't Prosecute Medical Pot Sales

U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that the Justice Department has no plans to prosecute pot dispensaries that are operating legally under state laws in California and a dozen other states -- a development that medical marijuana advocates and civil libertarians hailed as a sweeping change in federal drug policy.

March 18, 2009

Suspect Wanted for Home Invasion Murders in N.C. Dies in Utah

A man wanted in connection with the brutal murders of a family of four last week in Catawba County, N.C., died late Tuesday night as police closed in on him in southwest Utah.

March 17, 2009

Police: U.S. teens Were Hit Men for Mexican Cartel

Rosalio Reta and his friend, Gabriel Cardona, were members of a three-person cell of American teenagers working as cartel hit men in the United States, according to prosecutors. The third was arrested by Mexican authorities and stabbed to death in prison there three days later.

March 12, 2009

Obama Considers Sending Armed Troops to Mexican Border to Prevent Drug Violence

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his administration is examining options to deal with deteriorating security conditions on the Mexican border, including the deployment of the National Guard if violence continues to spill over into American cities.

March 11, 2009

Finding a Cure for a Cancer

Drug money is so corrupting that the drug lords have bribed both police and soldiers at the highest levels of the Mexican government.

February 28, 2009

Texas Governor Asks Washington for Troops to Guard Border

Gov. Rick Perry said he wants 1,000 troops to help guard the Texas-Mexico border, and for the U.S. to fund strong security measures to fight the Mexican drug cartels that have spread violence and fear in Mexico, including Juárez.

February 25, 2009

Napolitano Tells Congress that DHS Needs Help to Quell Border Violence

Border violence, which claimed more than 1,000 lives in January and about 6,000 in 2008, is already on the radar of Pentagon and CIA officials, who have told The Washington Times of their involvement in the current crisis in Mexico and say they are watching developments closely.

February 25, 2009

Page 48 of 52