Jesús is a drug trafficker allied with the Sinaloa cartel.
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What will he do when he's no longer a drug trafficker?
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Arguably more hateable than drug trafficker and domestic abuser Leo Johnson.
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Drug trafficker Jose Rodolfo Escajeda was later arrested for their murders.
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In a statement at the time Lopez denied being a drug trafficker.
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"Simply put, the indictments send a message that there is no difference between a drug trafficker, and a drug trafficker who leads anti-narcotics trafficking efforts," the DEA's James Hunt said in a statement announcing the unsealing on Monday.
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Velasco suspects it was a drug trafficker intent on kidnapping her for ransom.
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The PCC killed the last big rival drug trafficker in Paraguay in 2016.
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He acknowledged buying plastic explosives from the widow of a Honduran drug trafficker.
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And then there was the owner of the chemicals: Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
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Mr El Aissami is not the first Venezuelan official to be branded a drug trafficker.
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In other words, Asia has provided the opportunity for an enterprising drug trafficker and syndicate.
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Dudus Coke, aka the President, a Jamaican drug trafficker who is now incarcerated, is one.
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"I stopped being a drug trafficker in 1984 and will never be one again," he said.
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" Drug Trafficker #1: "Of course it is...we're a drug cartel, not a bunch of animals!
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" Kate del Castillo captured El Chapo's attention as a drug trafficker in "La Reina del Sur.
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Teto claimed to have no idea his longtime friend and business partner was a drug trafficker.
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His lawyers have claimed he was framed by another powerful drug trafficker, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
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The department said that one of his underworld partners was that drug trafficker, Walid Makled García.
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Historically, Gallardo eventually became the most powerful drug trafficker in Mexico, before being arrested in 1989.
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At the time, Lehder's trial was the biggest trial of foreign drug trafficker in US history.
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How else can we explain the fact that untouchable drug trafficker Klement Balili is still free?
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A drug trafficker chatted nervously with the person who was about to cross the border with meth.
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I was personally involved in taking down the planet's most notorious drug trafficker, Pablo Escobar, in 1993.
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"If I were a drug trafficker, I would admit it," he told Reuters in his office, gesturing indignantly.
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In any case, Penn's personal views do not justify consorting with a convicted drug trafficker and prison escapee.
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The mother recalled a drug trafficker "coming after her and her family" and trying to snatch their land.
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One clear illustration is the recent extradition, from Paraguay to Miami, of suspected Hezbollah drug trafficker Ali Chamas.
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Immigration agents arrested him when they went to his house to detain his father, a convicted drug trafficker.
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Court filings in Ramos' case include testimony from an unnamed convicted drug trafficker from the Sinaloa drug cartel.
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Remember, the best way of being a drug trafficker is to work for the ministry of counter narcotics.
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In death, as he was in life, convicted Venezuelan drug trafficker Teófilo Rodríguez Cazorla was not a discreet man.
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The trail leads Wilson to Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), a music industry bigwig who moonlights as a drug trafficker.
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Everything is extraordinary in the long-awaited case against a defendant once considered the world's most powerful drug trafficker.
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Authorities installed a confidential source who posed as a drug trafficker attempting to get postal workers to deliver cocaine.
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She said her cousin, a drug trafficker, had threatened to dismember her after she caught him raping his stepdaughter.
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In another, he joked about one of their infant daughters in a way that only a drug trafficker could.
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The case of Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker who named Mr. El Aissami in 2010, is also being revived.
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"You don't need life rights for the most famous drug trafficker on the face of the earth," he said.
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The American government blacklisted the vice-president of Venezuela, Tareck El Aissami, calling him a "drug trafficker" and a "kingpin".
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Along with many other high-level Venezuelan officials, he has been sanctioned by the US as an international drug trafficker.
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Remember, as the highest ranking drug trafficker ever arrested, he has a treasure trove of valuable intel for law enforcement.
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The DEA mentioned Salazar, who is known as Chepe Diablo, as a suspected drug trafficker and money launderer in 2001.
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Camila* is 250 years old and lives in a municipality outside Mexico City with her husband, Emilio*, a drug trafficker.
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And the drug trafficker is widely seen as someone who, out of pure greed, is peddling drugs that kill people.
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In one, they concluded, a Honduran police officer planted a gun on the dead body of an unarmed drug trafficker.
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Some items said she was married to a drug trafficker, others that she was a member of a criminal organization.
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"Azul was the one who basically supported Joaquín Guzmán Loera to be a great drug trafficker," Mr. Zambada said. *Mr.
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In that case, police used license plate data to track an alleged drug trafficker driving back and forth across bridges.
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After all, their goal in this trial was to ensure that the drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán was brought to justice.
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Even if that means making little out of the transfer to the local prison of the world's most notorious drug trafficker.
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Being the heir to an industrial fortune, Francis's younger years were a far cry from those of a typical drug trafficker.
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His dad was widely known as a drug trafficker and a close friend of the Ochoa clan, of Medellín Cartel fame.
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Corea Diaz was charged with three counts of operating as a major drug trafficker and five counts of second-degree conspiracy.
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"Now we are all struggling to get the chemicals to Sinaloa from China," one drug trafficker told VICE from Culiacán, Sinaloa.
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Video via YouTube In death, as he was in life, convicted Venezuelan drug trafficker Teófilo Rodríguez Cazorla was not a discreet man.
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Yes. But not the drug trafficker or conspirator whom the charges and mandatory minimum sentences were designed to target, the judge believed.
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Gómez referred to the actress's tequila business and to the movie project as potential areas of financial collusion with the drug trafficker.
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" His brother, Antonio Hernandez Alvarado, was arrested in November 2018 by US investigators in Miami, accused of being a "large-scale drug trafficker.
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Galvez Calle is considered a prolific drug trafficker by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Peruvian police, Villegas told journalists.
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Earlier that day, after six months on the run, Joaquín "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzmán, the country's most notorious drug-trafficker, had been recaptured.
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One afternoon, as we talked on Skype, he answered a call from a drug trafficker in California who had been released from prison.
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Related: Ecuador Just Captured a Peruvian Drug Trafficker Known as 'Tony Montana' Oropeza is now in jail awaiting trial on drug-trafficking charges.
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The shipment worth an estimated $503 million and belonging to the country's most notorious drug trafficker, presented a brief victory for Colombia's forces.
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The quote on his tombstone refers to him as "the son of a heavy," implying he was the son of an important drug trafficker.
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A suspected drug trafficker and alleged fugitive was arrested on Thursday in Massachusetts after unsuccessfully disguising himself as an elderly man to evade police.
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She was arrested, it says, in 2008 with her then husband, a Colombian drug trafficker, and was convicted of trafficking and money laundering herself.
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Spanish media said the raid was linked to another of the lawyer's clients, an alleged drug trafficker, and was not linked to Puigdemont himself.
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Earlier this year, the Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami, referring to him as a prominent drug trafficker.
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Juan Pablo Badillo is calling BS on Penn's Rolling Stone article, in which he says Chapo boasted he was the world's premiere drug trafficker.
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"These are false accusations made by a drug trafficker," Hernandez said, while acknowledging that such a document had been put before a U.S. judge.
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HAPPENING LATER Law and order Jury selection starts today in the trial of accused drug trafficker (and world-class escape artist) "El Chapo" Guzman.
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The National Guard is responsible not only for internal security but also the frontiers, ports and airports, access to which every drug trafficker needs.
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For two seasons, it was a show about the life and death of Pablo Escobar, the Columbian drug trafficker who became a cocaine billionaire.
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On Sunday morning, she finally returned home, but as a convicted drug trafficker — and one of Australia's most well-known, if not favorite, criminals.
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On March 17, suspected Mexican drug trafficker Juan Jose Esparragoza Monzon busted out of a prison in northwest Mexico, accompanied by four other men.
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"I've suffered worse," he said, noting that during the decade before he came to power he was arrested, beaten and branded as a drug trafficker.
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The United States has extradited an alleged drug trafficker to Mexico nearly a decade after police discovered $205 million hidden throughout his Mexico City mansion.
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What happened: Corrupt police officers had been escorting a drug trafficker with 1,700 pounds of coke when they were busted by a lower-ranking officer.
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Guzman, boss of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, was for years the world's most wanted drug trafficker until his capture by Mexican Marines in February 2014.
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A Mexican soldier was murdered while guarding the perimeter of a prison where Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most powerful drug- trafficker, is being held.
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Cover: In this March 19, 2009 file photo, drug trafficker Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla is presented to the media after his arrest in Mexico City.
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The Navy had said earlier in the day that Gastelum escaped in the raid but did not mention Guzman, the world's most-wanted drug trafficker.
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In April, Guatemala's Attorney General's Office confirmed that they are investigating whether Morales might have received illicit campaign financing, including from a known drug trafficker.
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Over 22015 weeks, prosecutors have called 22015 witnesses who have portrayed her husband as a vengeful drug trafficker, a bloodthirsty killer and a habitual philanderer.
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A police investigator in Russia is believed to have been killed by two teenagers who were hired by a drug trafficker on the dark net.
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He also has a warm relationship with Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela's vice president, who has been sanctioned by the United States as a drug trafficker.
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Law enforcement caught the drug mules by using a confidential source who posed as a drug trafficker looking for postal workers to complete deliveries for them.
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We don't know who will kill the infamous drug trafficker on the show, but executive producer Eric Newman has confirmed Escobar won't survive beyond this season.
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"I want to change," a Cebu-based businessman tagged as a top-level drug trafficker told reporters after he met national police chief Ronald dela Rosa.
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A suspected drug trafficker identified as Isidoro Gonzáles Gerónimo, aka "El Isis," was shot and killed in Oaxaca, the same day, the state attorney's office said.
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Messaging your gun-toting, drug-trafficking friends by way of encrypted message isn't proof that you're a gun-toting drug-trafficker, an Ontario court has ruled.
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But his regret is not of glamorizing the world's most notorious drug trafficker or that he may have aided and abetted a fugitive on the run.
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Beadle was not in possession of a large sum of money, drug paraphernalia, a scale or any other items to suggest he was a drug trafficker.
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Apple on Friday filed its response to the government's continuing bid to force it to unlock the iPhone of a convicted drug trafficker in New York.
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Among the statements by Lichtman that prosecutors challenged was what they called his insistence that the government contended that Guzman was the world's "biggest" drug trafficker.
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The move by the Venezuelan government comes just two days after US authorities said El Aissami is an international drug trafficker and slapped severe sanctions on him.
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The U.S. blacklisted Venezuela's vice president as a drug trafficker in February, and Trump later that month called for the release of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.
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In a separate case in Brooklyn, the FBI on Friday said it will continue to seek Apple's help in unlocking the iPhone of a convicted drug trafficker.
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Mr. Carvajal is wanted for similar crimes himself, having been accused of taking money from a Colombian drug trafficker in an indictment that was unsealed in 2014.
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He was the grinning, sociopathic "Curly Bill," terrorizing the citizens of 1993's Tombstone, and the lawman's old friend turned bloodthirsty drug trafficker in 1987's Extreme Prejudice.
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Attorney Jose Baez, best-known for winning an acquittal for Casey Anthony, described Bradley as a dangerous drug trafficker who had a personal vendetta against the two men.
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He was considered the most "powerful drug trafficker in the world" by the Treasury Department and his criminal enterprise spanned continents and triggered bloodshed throughout his native Mexico.
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Her portrayal of a merciless drug trafficker in the 2011 hit soap opera "La Reina del Sur," or "The Queen of the South," had clearly struck a chord.
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I grew up in the era where Amado Carrillo Fuentes, AKA El Señor de Los Cielos ("The Lord of the Skies"), was the biggest drug trafficker in Mexico.
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The man once considered the world's biggest drug trafficker is accused of heading a criminal enterprise that spanned continents and triggered waves of bloodshed throughout his native Mexico.
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The men and women who will decide the fate of a defendant once considered the world's most powerful and ruthless drug trafficker will hear opening statements on Tuesday.
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He said that he was there to write a story for Rolling Stone , and that he would like to do a series of interviews with the drug trafficker.
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QUITO, Ecuador — The drug trafficker was sitting in a Colombian prison cell, but he claimed to have a very valuable connection — the interior and justice minister of Venezuela.
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Tuesday, Mr. Lichtman submitted his client's name to the prosecution as a potential witness for the defense, confirming that the drug trafficker might testify in his own trial.
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El Gallo — Tomas Reyes Gonzalez, a drug trafficker now in federal prison — supplied the cash to the former Hidalgo County sheriff, Guadalupe Trevino, for his re-election campaign.
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Seeking leads about who might be a drug trafficker, the D.E.A. started in 2008 to issue blanket administrative subpoenas to vendors to learn who was buying money counters.
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But allegations by Mr Guzmán himself, who was captured after boasting to Sean Penn, an American actor, that he was the world's biggest drug trafficker, may not be reliable.
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They produced a huge amount of information — fake information — about me, accusing me from being a pedophile to being an extortionist to a drug trafficker to a car thief.
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There is no more difficult thing for deputies and officers than tell a parent that their child has died of a drug overdose or during a drug trafficker squabble.
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Since the U.S.-assisted deposing of the dictator and drug-trafficker Manuel Noriega in 1989, there has been a succession of democratically elected leaders from left, right and center.
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But the accusation that Mr. El Aissami, the next in line for the presidency, is a drug trafficker is certain to set a new, more hostile tone in relations.
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Among Mr. García Luna's trophies while serving in Mr. Calderón's cabinet was the arrest in 2010 of Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as La Barbie, an American-born drug trafficker.
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It alleges that Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela's vice-president, is a "prominent" drug trafficker, who amassed great wealth through his connections to gangs across Latin America, including Mexico's vicious Zetas.
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The smiley blonde model, Brittany Fogarty—whose father John Fogarty, was a Mafia hitman and drug trafficker who was arrested in 1991—is an outspoken new perspective on the mob.
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In 2012, an Afghan drug trafficker with ties to the Taliban was convicted in federal court of trafficking heroin and using the proceeds to finance the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
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The move comes in the appeal case of a drug trafficker who was convicted, in part, because of emails Yahoo provided to law enforcement that conspirators believed had been deleted.
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Incidents reported in April alone include the death of a five-year-old boy, and five men killed during a police operation to locate a drug trafficker who got away.
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Mexican authorities closed in on Guzmán shortly after the October meeting between the Hollywood star and the globe's most famous drug trafficker, but Guzmán slipped through their clutches until Friday.
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Jones evaluated the constitutionality of police investigators' placement of a GPS tracker on the Jeep of a suspected drug trafficker to monitor his movements for a month without a warrant.
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Del Castillo had spent much of the year starring as a drug trafficker in "La Reina del Sur" ("The Queen of the South"), a sixty-three-episode telenovela on Telemundo.
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In the mid-1980s Guadalupe Leija Serrano ran off to Venezuela with drug trafficker Rafael Enrique Clavel, taking with her the two young children she had with Salazar, Nataly and Jesús.
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Asylum was her goal: She had been threatened with death by a drug trafficker after she had spurned his romantic advances and his efforts to recruit her into his criminal business.
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News Analysis MEXICO CITY — Pinning down the meaning of Joaquín Guzmán Loera — the deadly and celebrated Mexican drug trafficker known as El Chapo — is a constant battle between tragedy and farce.
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Related: Colombian Police Have Tracked Down 'The Snail', Peru's Most-Wanted Drug Trafficker Keegan Hamilton, Valerio Bassan, Joe Parkin Daniels, Simeon Tegel, Gaston Cavanagh, and Jo Tuckman contributed to this report.
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The role of Kate del Castillo, a Mexican and American actress, in brokering the meeting between the fugitive drug trafficker and actor Sean Penn for a magazine interview has been reported.
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They plan to tell the jury about his epic rise from mid-level drug trafficker to leader of Mexico's most powerful cartel, an ascent made possible by his cunning and ruthlessness.
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As part of its investigation into Ramos and Phantom Secure, the FBI has at least one cooperating witness—a convicted transnational drug trafficker from the Sinaloa cartel—according to the complaint.
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The government will continue to seek Apple's help in unlocking the iPhone of a convicted drug trafficker in a carefully watched case in Brooklyn, according to court documents filed on Friday.
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"The sentencing of Joseph Hunter, an admitted contract killer, convicted drug trafficker, and ringleader of trained assassins, ends another chapter in a chilling criminal case that spanned the globe," Bharara said.
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" The kingpin was arrested on Saturday in the Colombian city of Medellin, Colombia's National Defense Ministry said in a statement that described him as "the most wanted drug trafficker in Peru.
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Police found a weapons cache of 17 guns, a grenade launcher, and white supremacist propaganda — including a document called the "N****r Owner's Manual" — in the home of a suspected drug trafficker.
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Julian Pacheco Tinoco, was recently identified as a drug trafficker by a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration informant in the course of a trial involving the nephews of the first lady of Venezuela.
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This eye-popping fact about the cartel's so-called "corruption budget" was revealed yesterday in testimony by a former Mexican drug trafficker during the trial of alleged kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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Mexican drug trafficker José Díaz Barajas, 49, was arrested during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil while boarding a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Fortaleza, the city hosting the Mexico vs.
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Like a number of others who have drifted into terrorist behavior, Mr. Lakdim had a history as a petty criminal and small-time drug trafficker, and he had served time in prison.
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In November 2018, a prominent Brazilian drug trafficker, Marcelo Pinheiro Veiga, killed a teenage prostitute who had been taken to a special cell designed for him in a heavily secured police station.
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If Mexico agrees to extradite the notorious drug trafficker known as El Chapo to the United States, he would be tried in federal court in Brooklyn, a law enforcement official said on Wednesday.
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He entrusted negotiations to his vice-president, Tareck El Aissami—a man financiers in New York cannot do business with because the United States says he is a drug trafficker (which he denies).
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This is our reality," one anonymous drug trafficker told the AP."A pair of flip-flops alongside a stream of blood from a homicide victim in Seropedica, in greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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The drug trafficker opened the gate and a man delivered another another 11 pounds of crystal meth produced in a laboratory in Sinaloa, which he usually buys for less than $500 per kilo.
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The actor slimmed down for his role in 2014's A Walk Among the Tombstones, in which he played a drug trafficker desperate to find the men who kidnapped and killed his wife.
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Write the code, wait for Linda to flag down an FBI agent to come over to extract some iMessages belonging to a drug trafficker, some child pornographer's photos, some correspondence between suspected terrorists.
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The intelligence report also includes HSBC bank statements of accounts tied to Mr. El Aissami's brother, Feraz, that totaled nearly $45 million — money it says was linked to Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
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Durazo's comments followed an earlier statement that did not fully clarify whether the accused drug trafficker, Ovidio Guzman, was still in custody, following hours of intense gunbattles in the northern city of Culiacan.
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Earlier in the week, the company scored a victory when a U.S. magistrate judge ruled in Apple's favor in a similar case involving the phone of a convicted drug trafficker in New York.
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"But if there is a drug trafficker or someone who poses a threat or harm to our families here in this country, absolutely, we should be able to criminally prosecute them," O'Rourke later added.
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MEXICO CITY — Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the convicted drug trafficker known as El Chapo, who twice pulled off brazen jailbreaks, was transferred to a prison in northern Mexico near the border with Texas early Saturday.
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On the other side of the packed courtroom sat two couples who'd arrived in the predawn hours to witness the long-awaited trial of the man alleged to be the world's biggest drug trafficker.
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Morales will soon be term-limited out; for the presidential election next month, his party has put forward a new candidate, Estuardo Galdámez, who recently posed for a photograph with a convicted drug trafficker.
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Rosenthal also received money from a drug trafficker in the form of an investment in a soccer club he controlled, C.D. Marathón, and tried to launder drug proceeds through U.S. real estate transactions, prosecutors said.
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Although their songs were about alien abductions, befriending a notorious drug trafficker, and the hazards of drug abuse featuring George Foreman quotes, Super Furry Animals somehow found themselves smack dab in the thriving Britpop movement.
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He raped the woman — a drug trafficker from the Dominican Republic — on several occasions, prosecutors said, including "one last time," before her sentence ended and she was handed over to the immigration authorities for deportation.
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Apple has argued in a separate but similar case involving the phone of a convicted drug trafficker that the government's requests that it help unlock the device did constitute an undue burden on the company.
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Aponte defected to the United States in 2012 after being removed from office by the Chávez-controlled National Assembly for "infringing against public ethics and administrative morals" and alleged links to drug trafficker Walid Makled.
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Cover: Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, a deputy of Mexico's National Action Party (PAN) in the state of Sinaloa, denied her links with the drug trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán at a press conference in June 2015.
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The Mexican-American drug trafficker who rose through the cartel ranks in Mexico and became known as "La Barbie" declared himself guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and money laundering in US federal court on Wednesday.
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That's when Ng Sik-ho, a wily Hong Kong drug trafficker known as Limpy Ho, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for smuggling more than 20 tonnes of opium and morphine, according to court records.
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Even before Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous drug trafficker known as El Chapo, tunneled out of Mexico's most secure prison over the summer, the Mexican government had begun rebuilding its strained relationship with the United States.
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Under a vanity cabinet, they found several kilos of heroin belonging to an alleged drug trafficker from Mexico named Joel Diaz-Fernandez, according to a factual proffer statement recently filed by prosecutors in Miami federal court.
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"There is absolutely no credible evidence to support the allegations made by an admitted mass murderer and a convicted drug trafficker," Mr. Bieber said, adding that the former president had "absolutely no" relationship with the Cachiros.
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It said Mr. El Aissami oversaw or partly owned narcotics shipments weighing more than a ton, managed an international network of businesses to help launder profits and forged an alliance with Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
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WASHINGTON — In 1995, a federal grand jury in San Diego charged a little-known Mexican drug trafficker named Joaquín Guzmán Loera and 22 underlings with creating a cocaine ring that stretched from Southern California to New Jersey.
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The opposition Democratic Party head Lulzim Basha said his departure was "a milestone in their battle to clean politics of crime" since Xhafaj was "the only interior minister in Europe with a drug trafficker for a brother".
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Rolando Asuncion, chief of the Philippines' corrections bureau, said a drug trafficker was stabbed to death in the brawl, and one of the three wounded men, kidnapper Jaybee Sebastian, had been scheduled to give evidence next week.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge sentenced a leading Kenyan drug trafficker, Baktash Akasha, to 25 years in prison on Friday after he pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to import heroin and methamphetamine and other crimes.
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After getting his bearings from scary friends like Lance Alvis, a drug trafficker who had his Albuquerque rivals nailed up on crosses ("Just like Jesus"), Barr heads for the Colorado backcountry, where the plot really takes off.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) will disclose in the next two weeks whether it will continue to pursue its bid to force Apple to unlock the iPhone of a convicted drug trafficker in Brooklyn, according to court documents.
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This isn't merely reputational: who wants to explain to a sheriff's department that the implant tracking a drug trafficker was disabled because the Emirati government was trying to compromise the same well-known journalist for the fourth time.
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The world's most powerful drug trafficker, Joaquín Guzmán Loera — better known as "El Chapo" — has been found guilty of more than 10 counts of criminal activity, including drug trafficking, money laundering, and weapons violations in the pursuit of violence.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Colombian drug trafficker who the U.S. government says was the ringleader of an extensive network that shipped thousands of kilograms of cocaine to the United States was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison.
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Tuesday's proceedings began with testimony from government witness Edgar Galvan, a low-level drug trafficker who the defense said fabricated payments from another trafficker to Guzman with the hope of reducing his own 24-1/3-year prison term.
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Del Castillo, who once played a drug trafficker in a well-known Mexican TV soap, revealed soon after the article was published that the meeting came about because Guzman's lawyers had reached out to her about a possible movie.
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Contributing Opinion Writer MEXICO CITY — An iconic photo from 1993 shows Colombian police officers smiling as they crouch over the bullet-ridden corpse of Pablo Escobar, who Forbes magazine had claimed was the richest drug trafficker on the planet.
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The memorandum outlined four occasions in which an accused Honduran drug trafficker, who was also an official in the president's National Party, said he had paid bribes to or for President Hernández and Mr. Lobo in exchange for protection.
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With its own communications network, and surveillance posts on the surrounding peaks, the rustic redoubt had everything the drug boss needed, but was hardly befitting of a mega-rich drug trafficker who was once on the Forbes list of billionaires.
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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the drug kingpin who violently rose to lead the infamous Sinaloa Cartel and at one point was named by the US as the "world's most powerful drug trafficker," was convicted Tuesday in a federal court in Brooklyn.
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" For context, Elaine Shannon provides a picture of the quintessential "Sinaloa drug trafficker" in her book Desperados: "They traveled around Guadalajara with platoons of guards armed with automatic weapons, and with suitcases full of cash they bought whatever caught their fancy.
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Images showing the fancy Paraguayan prison accommodation of Brazilian drug trafficker Jarvis Chimenes Pavao have emerged in local news reports, showing a spacious, three-room suite complete with his own library, a flat screen TV, and a collection of DVDs.
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New York (CNN)The former Mexican drug trafficker greeted alleged kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman with a nod and a smile on Thursday before revealing that the Sinaloa cartel maintained a corruption budget of more than $1003 million per month.
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In the South Columbo region of Dehiwala, where Sri Lanka's largest concentration of Muslims resides, a major drug trafficker named Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar reportedly has set up a distribution hub that has brought record-breaking quantities of heroin into the country.
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Last week, after he commuted the sentence of a nonviolent drug trafficker who had the backing of reality show doyenne Kim Kardashian West, Trump invited NFL players to offer their own suggestions as to who he should let out of jail.
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Then came two chilling murders: A lawyer who represented drug king pins was assassinated as she stepped out of a meeting, and a young woman was stabbed to death with a dinner knife while visiting a drug trafficker in prison.
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To the special agents assigned to Homeland Security Investigations, a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, mules are the first link of a knotted chain that may or may not lead to the agents' ultimate prize: a top drug trafficker.
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It was not immediately clear whether the current detention is also related to this previous case that reportedly involved a drug trafficker linked to one of Sao Paulo's most dangerous criminal gangs, the PCC, or First Command of the Capital.
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The rally took place days after a German paper published leaked tapes showing how an accused drug trafficker in Durres told Socialist officials how he planned to coerce opposition backers to vote for them and help a friend become a lawmaker.
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Marquez, 38, along with a popular singer known as Julion Alvarez and nearly two dozen other Mexican nationals, is accused of financial ties with Raul Flores Hernandez, a suspected drug trafficker with links to the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation gang.
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Del Castillo has not commented, but Penn wrote in Rolling Stone that Guzman was interested in having a movie made of his life and wanted del Castillo, who had portrayed a drug trafficker in a Mexican television series, involved in the project.
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The man American authorities call "the most notorious drug trafficker in the world" is being tried in a New York court on charges related to running a criminal enterprise and could spend the rest of his life in an American prison if convicted.
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In March an Irish judge refused a routine request under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) to surrender Artur Celmer, a suspected drug-trafficker, to authorities in his native Poland, because of what she called PiS's "deliberate, calculated and provocative" assault on judicial independence.
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And he returned to some of his most provocative red meat rhetoric on Thursday, jokingly referring to those who came to the U.S. illegally as "undocumented Democrats" and blasting actor Sean Penn for his recent, controversial interview with Mexican drug trafficker El Chapo.
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Howard Marks, an Oxford-educated drug trafficker who at his peak in the 21995s controlled a substantial fraction of the world's hashish and marijuana trade, and who became a best-selling author after his release from an American prison, died on Sunday.
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At a late-October rally in Nevada, he told voters that a Democratic victory "would be a bright, flashing invitation to every human trafficker, drug trafficker," and that Democrats wanted to give undocumented immigrants health care, welfare, and the right to vote.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A judge in Mexico ordered on Thursday that bank accounts linked to businesses owned by soccer star Rafa Marquez be unfrozen, following a designation in August by the U.S. government that the sportsman was linked to a suspected drug trafficker.
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But when an associate—who was also a confidential source for the DEA—offered contact information for a man Manaf was led to believe was an international drug trafficker based in New York City, he made a much bigger play, prosecutors said.
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She ends up in Spain, where she spends time working in a brothel, lands in jail for dealing drugs and then gains money and fame as a drug trafficker after her release, all while evading the many men intent on killing her.
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White-collar defendants can often point to a life largely free from criminal conduct and can generate letters from family and friends attesting to their generosity and good works — something that is not likely to come up in sentencing a drug trafficker.
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Armas was suspended from his role as head of El Pozo, the US-style prison located in Santa Barbara department bordering Guatemala, as part of an investigation into the October 26 murder of drug trafficker Nery Orlando López, according to La Prensa.
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And despite Mr. Guzmán's infamy, there are questions about whether he was truly the biggest drug trafficker in Mexico or just one of various powerful kingpins, including his fellow Sinaloan trafficker Ismael Zambada García, called El Mayo, who is still at large.
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Days later, nearly 400 gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel — the group once led by Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the imprisoned drug trafficker known as El Chapo — took control of Culiacán, the state capital of Sinaloa, after government forces tried to arrest one of Mr. Guzmán's sons.
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The sanctions, announced on Monday by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, described Mr. El Aissami as a "drug trafficker" and a "kingpin" who had used his past positions of power, which also included a state governorship, to move large quantities of narcotics.
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As they continued to investigate "Uncle Jerry" Jacobsen, their list of other participants in the scam expanded from eight people to 53 disparate individuals, including a self-described mob associate, a convicted drug trafficker, and a Mormon father of five, his wife, and her sister.
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Along with a variety of other setbacks, the city has faced an uptick in localized violence since a drug trafficker escaped from a Brazilian hospital over a week ago, engaging in multiple gun battles across the city's slums, as authorities attempt to recapture him, the AP reports.
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And he included a photo of himself from that night in his campaign video.. He sets the scene: It was "about 10 years ago" and, as a young police officer at a Halloween party, he dressed up as Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory, a notorious drug trafficker.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - The largest ever task force assembled to fight organized crime in Asia has identified a long-time drug trafficker, a China-born Canadian national, as the suspected kingpin of a crime syndicate that police say dominates the $70 billion-a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade.
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" "If one of these American actors who have benefited from the greatness of this country, who have made money from our free enterprise system, want to go fawn all over a criminal and a drug trafficker in their interviews, they have a constitutional right to do it.
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Apple said Thursday that if the government is able to successfully break into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, it may eliminate the need for the company to assist in a separate case involving the phone of a convicted drug trafficker in New York.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — In a blow to President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras, American prosecutors on Monday announced drug charges against his younger brother, describing him as a "large-scale drug trafficker" who spent a dozen years moving cocaine shipments bound for the United States through Central America.
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One major witness, the Colombian trafficker Alex Cifuentes, may end up testifying in a new cartel trial against Mykhaylo Koretskyy, a Ukranian-born alleged drug trafficker who was arrested in 2018 and then was indicted in federal court in New York on drug smuggling conspiracy charges.
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During his investigation, Velazquez says he found an arrest record for Moreno after the 1989 shooting death of the teen and investigated a phone call in which another judge in a separate case recorded Moreno allegedly pressuring him to release a suspected arms and drug trafficker.
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"As alleged in the indictment, Elorez is not only a drug trafficker, he also betrayed a veterinarian's pledge to prevent animal suffering when he used his surgical skills in a cruel scheme to smuggle heroin in the abdomens of puppies," US Attorney Richard Donoghue said at the time.
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An alleged major drug trafficker known as "Reaper," who&aposs accused of being a kingpin in the brutal MS-13 gang, told a judge life in lockup is unbearable and complained about a lack of phone access and the "discrimination" he faces at a New York county jail.
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Land-owner self-defence groups, later reinforced by drug-trafficker foot-soldiers, created a national paramilitary structure which, with the complicity of some army officers, slaughtered some 3,13 UP members and visited terror upon villages seen as sympathetic to the FARC—which responded with terrorism of its own.
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Ioan Grillo Mexico City — It was a television executive's nightmare: Not only was someone threatening to sue over a TV series, but that person was reputedly the biggest drug trafficker on the planet and the head of a cartel behind a long string of mass executions and torture videos.
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Kate del Castillo plays a Mexican woman who becomes the most powerful drug trafficker in Southern Spain in the Telemundo telenovela that caught the eye of the real-life drug kingpin El Chapo, and led to his secret meeting, documented in Rolling Stone, with Ms. del Castillo and Sean Penn.
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The rally took place days after a German newspaper published leaked tapes showing how an accused drug trafficker in Durres, western Albania, told Socialist Party officials that he planned to coerce opposition backers to vote for their party and that he would help a friend become a lawmaker, Reuters reported.
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"The court said I am not a criminal or a drug trafficker, and am not part of a criminal group, but found me guilty of abuse of office because I have used the same car with some cousins," Tahiri told reporters after the verdict, which was issued six hours later than scheduled.
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But instead of using his stable of confidential informants to bring down the gangs, the authorities said, Mr. Irizarry worked with a Colombian drug trafficker to launder money seized from undercover drug operations and used the cash to buy a Tiffany diamond ring, a $135,000 Land Rover and a home in Cartagena.
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In the 1990s, Ludwig (Tarzan) Fainberg, a Russian mobster and Miami strip club owner; Juan Almeida, a Cuban luxury car dealer; and Nelson (Tony) Yester, an international drug trafficker, were accused of combining their skills to sell a Soviet submarine to a Colombian cartel to distribute cocaine in the former Soviet Union and North America.
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She and her two young children Nataly and Héctor were all murdered by a Venezuelan drug trafficker to get at El Guero, who was sent the severed head of his wife in a box; In the cupola of their small mausoleum, Guadalupe and her children are depicted in a painting as angels seated in heaven (left)
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In these text messages, which were later leaked to the Mexican press—not by del Castillo, almost certainly not by the drug trafficker, and therefore likely by someone inside the Mexican government—El Chapo said that she could come to the Sinaloa resort town of Mazatlán and spend a day with him at a nearby ranch.
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The arrests of Sergeant Watts and Officer Mohammed came after F.B.I. and Chicago Police Department investigators recruited an informant to tell the two law enforcement officers that the informant was carrying the $5,200 for a drug trafficker, a statement from the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois said at the time of their arrest in 2012.
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The Mexican government said Thursday that it is turning over notorious drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to U.S. authorities, hours before President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE takes the oath of office.
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There was Terry, a hippy-ish former armed robber who'd stuck up banks to pay for his rehab program and whose sketches illustrate this piece; Alan, grandfather, gypsy, and (he claimed) international drug trafficker; Mustapha, a jolly fat man who seemed more interested in gambling scams than Gauguin; our supervisor, a sweet old retired art teacher called Paul who went around photographing manhole covers in his spare time; and Dave.
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Instead, Mr. Carvajal pointed to other top government officials, including Mr. Reverol, the interior minister, who is under a United States indictment for allegedly assisting drug traffickers and calling off investigations while he was director of the National Antidrugs Office, or O.N.A. Mr. Carvajal recalled an incident in 2012, when he said he had been investigating a luxurious ranch in Venezuela owned by Mr. Makled, the drug trafficker.
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