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FBI Warns of Looming Mexican Drug Cartel Violence in South Texas

Frustrated by a crackdown on South Texas drug smuggling routes, the Mexican Gulf Cartel is stockpiling high-powered weapons and recruiting local gang members on both sides of the border to prepare for possible confrontations with U.S. law enforcement, according to an FBI intelligence report.

October 29, 2008

Texas Sheriff Charged with Helping Mexican Cartel Smuggle Drugs

Federal agents arrested Starr County Sheriff Reymundo "Rey" Guerra on Tuesday for his alleged role in a drug trafficking organization with ties to the Gulf Cartel.

October 14, 2008

Authorities Break Up U.S.-Canada Drug Ring

Late last year, Nathanael Lineham got a panicked phone call, prosecutors say. An associate working with Lineham to bring the drug ecstasy to California from Canada told him a shipment of 85,000 pills had been seized. Lineham was calm. After all, the deals were struck using coded e-mails -- on encrypted BlackBerrys from Lineham's own company.

October 4, 2008

Soros-Backed California Ballot Proposition Would Overhaul Sentencing of Drug Offenders

The Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, funded in part by billionaire George Soros, would be "the most ambitious sentencing and prison reform in U.S. history," according to the Drug Policy Alliance Network, a primary sponsor.

October 1, 2008

Cocaine Found in Children’s Toys

Tuesday morning, police announced the arrest of nine people in the Bronx and Manhattan in connection with a drug importation and money laundering organization that shipped kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to New York City concealed in boxes of children's toys and puzzles.

September 22, 2008

Bear Takes Out Colorado Pot Farm

Garfield County (Colo.) sheriff's deputies who raided the pot farm found pipes chewed in half, food containers ripped apart, cans scarred by bites, claw marks and bear prints and trees bearing claw marks. "If I can find this bear, I'm going to deputize him," said Sheriff Danny Perkins.

September 3, 2008

Charlotte Cops Agree to Plead Guilty On Drug Charges

Two former Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers cut a deal with federal prosecutors that, if a judge approves, would let them serve the minimum sentence for conspiring with a suspected drug dealer and informant to sell crack cocaine.

July 23, 2008

Dallas PD to Begin Testing for Steroid Use

The Dallas Police Department plans to start testing officers for illegal anabolic steroids use on July 1. Police officials said they had been researching incorporating testing for steroids as part of their random drug testing program for at least a year, said Acting Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson.

June 12, 2008

Former DEA Agents Sue Producers of 'American Gangster'

Three former Drug Enforcement Administration agents have filed suit against the producers of the movie "American Gangster," saying that the film made them into criminals and did not truthfully show their role in the arrest and prosecution of infamous Harlem drug dealer Frank Lucas.

January 23, 2008

Mexican Drug Cartel Cowboys and DTOs

For more than a decade, Los Angeles street gangs have been killing about 550 to 600 people in L.A. County each year. What you probably don't know is that Mexican nationals, primarily illegal aliens, murder about an equal amount yearly. Many of these murders involve rivalries and vendettas that originated in states, cities, and ranchos in Mexico. They usually often involve Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTO).

July 4, 2007

Reno (Nev.) PD's Motel Interdiction Team

The Star of Reno shines no more. Luck ran out a long time ago for those who lodge at the Roulette Motel. And you'll find more grim than glamour at the Monte Carlo. Welcome to downtown Reno, Nev.

May 31, 2007

L Po0607 Closer Look

Crime at Budget Motels

A budget motel can be an epicenter of crime in a neighborhood. Problems at these "no-tell motels" can range from loud parties and public disorder to drug lab and prostitution operations.

February 28, 2007

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