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REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar CHICAGO (AP) — A former top lieutenant to Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and likely witness at the Mexican drug lord’s New York trial has pleaded guilty to trafficking conspiracy in Chicago, saying in a plea agreement unsealed Friday that he will cooperate with prosecutors in hopes of a reduced sentence and protection from […]
(AP Photo) US authorities were mainly focused on heroin in the early 1970s. But cocaine, smuggled by Colombian groups, was growing in prominence, especially in the Northeast. A tip in 1978 would lead police in New York City to uncover the first sign of the Cali cartel’s burgeoning power. In the early 1970s, the newly […]
Sylvester Stallone may be 71 years old, but that’s not going to stop him from taking on some new enemies in yet another sequel in the Rambo action franchise. Rambo 5 is currently being shopped around by Avi Lerner and his Millennium Films banner at the Cannes Film Market. And rather than passing the torch […]
(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) A top Gulf cartel leader was captured at a home near the US-Mexico border early on Monday morning. Less than a day later, residents in the area reported gunfire and other violent scenes. The complex criminal environment in Mexico makes it hard to tell where things are going, but such disruptions in […]
The identities of the jurors in Mexican cartel kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s federal trial will be kept secret NOW WATCH: What El Chapo is really like — according to the wife of one his closest henchman See Also: There is actually a logical explanation for why there is an Olympic sport that combines cross-country skiing […]
The son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s former right-hand man is reportedly talking to US authorities, and it could be trouble for the Sinaloa cartel NOW WATCH: What El Chapo is really like — according to the wife of one his closest henchman
AP Under the leadership of Pablo Escobar, the Medellin cartel moved immense amounts of drugs and brought in stratospheric profits. By one measure, they were raking in $ 420 million a week by the mid-1980s, and by the end of the decade the cartel reportedly supplied 80% of the world’s cocaine. Such prodigious trafficking made […]
Thomson Reuters A European branch of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel has formed an alliance with a Romanian criminal group in order to smuggle narcotics into the UK, The Times of London reports, citing Britain’s National Crime Agency. According to The Times, the Sinaloa branch has linked up with a Romanian gang that operates heavy goods vehicles […]
Televisa/Twitter Damaso Lopez Serrano, the son of one of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s main henchmen and a competitor for control of the Sinaloa cartel, crossed the border and turned himself into US authorities on Wednesday. Lopez Serrano reportedly crossed from Mexicali in Mexico’s Baja California state to Calexico in California, where he surrendered to the […]
Published time: 24 Jul, 2017 00:00 Edited time: 24 Jul, 2017 00:07 German carmakers are being investigated over allegations that it’s been operating a price-fixing cartel since the early ’90s – activities that may have laid the foundations for the 2015 diesel emissions scandal, Der Spiegel claims. A recent report in the magazine said antitrust […]
