Brazen ambush of Mexico City chief blamed on Jalisco cartel
Dozens of gunmen believed tied to the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel deployed for a complex, multi-point dawn ambush meant…
Pablo Escobar’s crime partner freed in US, goes to Berlin
Pablo Escobar’s crime partner and one of Colombia’s pioneering “cocaine cowboys” has been released after a long prison sentence in…
Source: Trump admin. to name new DEA head, US attorney in DC
The U.S. attorney who oversaw the reversal of a sentencing recommendation for Trump ally Roger Stone and the motion to…
Police jail woman who paid bail with marijuana-scented cash
A Louisiana woman was arrested on drug charges after police determined the $5,000 cash she used to post an inmate’s…
US prosecutors tie Honduras president to drug trafficker
United States prosecutors say that Honduras’ president met with a drug trafficker around 2013 and took $25,000 in exchange for…
Prosecutors: Hawaii man led meth ring while councilman
A Hawaii politician has pleaded not guilty to allegations he led a drug-trafficking organization while serving as a county councilman…
9 killed, including 3 kids, at video game arcade in Mexico
Four gunmen shot to death nine people at a video game arcade in western Mexico, and among the dead are…
Authorities battle Atlantic storm to intercept cocaine yacht
An international drug operation involving authorities from six countries captured a yacht carrying almost 2 metric tons of cocaine in…
Police: Hemp plants seized in California were pot worth $1B
Authorities in Central California have seized and destroyed about 100 million plants they said were being grown as legal hemp…
Doctor facing life in prison for thousands of opioid doses
By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers…
Trial to start in million-dollar suburban Utah drug ring
As America’s opioid crisis spiraled into a fentanyl epidemic, prosecutors say one young Utah man made himself a drug kingpin…
A Capitol offense? Cannabis found in Statehouse flower beds
Almost three dozen cannabis plants have been found growing in the flower beds in front of the Vermont Statehouse, police…
Police: $30,000 offered in shooting that wounded Ortiz
Police say a suspected drug trafficker offered to pay $30,000 for the shooting that wounded baseball slugger David Ortiz, who…
Congress urged to fully open banks to marijuana industry
Congress is being urged to fully open the doors of the nation’s banking system to the legal marijuana industry Source…