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Feds: $13.6M in phony sports goods confiscated
Investigators have confiscated more than $13.6 million worth of phony sports merchandise over the past five months and expect to seize more in New ...
Mexico's new president mostly mum on drug violence
Two months after President Enrique Pena Nieto took office promising to reduce violent crime, the killings linked to Mexico's drug cartels continue ...
Surviving band member leads police to bodies
The Colombian-style music group was playing at a ranch in northern Mexico when at least 10 gunmen entered the warehouse where the private party was ...
In Mexico, self-defense squads battle violence
The young man at the roadside checkpoint wept softly behind the red bandanna that masked his face. At his side was a relic revolver, and his feet were ...
US commandos boost numbers to train Mexican forces
The Pentagon is stepping up aid for Mexico's bloody drug war with a new U.S.-based special operations headquarters to teach Mexican security forces ...
Q&A on Russian 'crowned thieves'
The contract-style killing of Russian mobster Aslan Usoyan, also known as Grandpa Khasan, on Wednesday drew renewed attention to the extensive and ...
Romania wants 2 drug trafficker suspects arrested
Romanian prosecutors want to arrest two Bulgarians suspected of running one of Europe's largest cocaine trafficking rings from Colombia to Europe.
Beaches, bombs and gangsters _ Corsica's dilemma
The bombs exploded across hundreds of miles of Corsican coastline, gutting two dozen villas nearly simultaneously on some of Europe's most beautiful ...
Chicago mobster Calabrese dies in federal prison
Chicago mobster Frank Calabrese Sr., a hit man who strangled victims and then slashed their throats to be sure they were dead, has died in a federal ...
List of 1000s of missing raises doubts in Mexico
Federal police officer Luis Angel Leon Rodriguez disappeared in 2009 along with six fellow police as they headed to the western state of Michoacan to ...
Thailand to extradite Italian accused of mob ties
A Thai court on Thursday ordered the extradition of a fugitive Italian banker found guilty of laundering money for some of Italy's top mobsters ...
Mexico says some 80 cartels at work in country
Mexico's new attorney general said Tuesday that as many as 80 small and medium-size drug cartels are operating in the country, a number far higher ...
Too big to jail? Execs avoid laundering charges
When the Justice Department announced its record $1.9 billion settlement against British bank HSBC last week, prosecutors called it a powerful blow ...
Owner of Rivera plane denies drug connections
The man who runs the business that owns a luxury jet that crashed and killed Latin music star Jenni Rivera says he has never been involved in drug ...
Family of slain Border Patrol agent sues officials
The family of a slain Border Patrol agent has sued federal officials over the botched "Fast and Furious" gun operation, claiming they should have ...
Parents fight for release of son jailed in Mexico
A South Florida family is fighting to get their son, a Marine veteran, released from a prison in a dangerous area in Mexico while facing charges that ...
AP Exclusive: Georgia details nuke investigations
On the gritty side of this casino resort town near the Turkish border, three men in a hotel suite gathered in secret to talk about a deal for ...
Tijuana architect was an unlikely drug courier
Eugenio Velazquez doesn't fit the mold of the down-on-his luck, uneducated, underemployed courier who ferries drugs to the U.S. for Mexican drug ...
Correction: Gang Indictment story
In a story Dec. 6 about a racketeering indictment against dozens of alleged gang members, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age of ...
Mexico's President Calderon fell short of goals
When he came to power six years ago, President Felipe Calderon set goals to alleviate poverty, create jobs and increase public safety. As he winds up ...
Soldiers: Mexico beauty queen had gun in her hands
A Mexican beauty queen killed over the weekend in a shootout between suspected drug traffickers and soldiers likely was being used as a human shield, ...
Mexican beauty queen killed in shootout
A 20-year-old state beauty queen died in a gun battle between soldiers and the alleged gang of drug traffickers she was traveling with in a scene ...
Irish arrest 113 in raids focused on triad gangs
Ireland's police force says its officers have arrested 113 suspected drug dealers and seized five marijuana growing facilities in the nation's ...
LatAm leaders call for review of US legal pot vote
A group of Latin American leaders declared Monday that votes by two U.S. states to legalize marijuana have important implications for efforts to quash ...
Mexico charges cops with trying to kill CIA agents
Mexican prosecutors charged 14 federal police officers Friday with trying to kill two CIA agents and a Mexican navy captain in an August ambush south ...