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Mexico finds smuggling tunnel near US border
Mexican authorities have discovered a sophisticated smuggling tunnel equipped with electricity and ventilation not far from the Nogales port of entry ...
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 ...
LA jury awards $4.5 million to Filipino teachers
A federal jury awarded $4.5 million to Filipino teachers who paid large fees to obtain U.S. jobs through a placement agency. Jurors on Monday found ...
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 ...
Feds: 4 Texas officers guarded cocaine shipments
Three South Texas lawmen including the son of a prominent county sheriff will likely spend the weekend in custody on charges accusing them and another ...
4 Texas officers accused of helping move cocaine
Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against four officers from a South Texas anti-drug task force who they say took thousands of dollars ...
Argentines shocked by verdicts in sex slave trial
The acquittal of 13 people accused in the disappearance of a young woman who was allegedly kidnapped and forced into prostitution for "VIP clients" ...
Fast and Furious gun buyer sentenced to prison
A man who purchased two rifles found at the scene of the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent north of the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced ...
HSBC to pay $1.9B to settle money-laundering case
British bank HSBC has agreed to pay $1.9 billion to settle a New York based-probe in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics ...
Govt outlines HSBC ties to drug money laundering
British bank HSBC violated the Bank Secrecy Act in connection with the laundering of money from narcotics drug traffickers in Mexico and intentionally ...
US: Afghans resisting efforts to track cash exodus
A U.S. watchdog agency said Tuesday that Afghan officials were resisting U.S. efforts to help track billions of dollars being flown out of Kabul ...
Extortion of American stings Bolivian officials
It is an unlikely tale: Orthodox Jew from New York City comes to Bolivia to rescue a rice-growing venture, gets thrown in jail on suspicion of money ...
Famed architect gets 6 months for drug smuggling
A highly acclaimed architect was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for trying to enter the U.S. with nearly 13 pounds of cocaine hidden in his ...
Argentine mom rescues hundreds of sex slaves
Susana Trimarco was a housewife who fussed over her family and paid scant attention to the news until her daughter left for a doctor's appointment and ...
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 ...
Iran police confiscate over 11 tons of narcotics
Iran's state TV says the country's border police have confiscated over 11 tons of narcotics after fierce clashes with drug traffickers in southeastern ...
Gypsies take curious route through US to asylum
A minivan with California license plates and a dozen passengers zipped across the border between Vermont and Quebec in October, heading north in a ...
Bombing wounds Afghan intelligence chief
A Taliban suicide bomber posing as a messenger of peace blew himself up near Afghanistan's newly appointed intelligence chief on Thursday, seriously ...
Border Patrol agent arrested in smuggling probe
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested after authorities say he used his patrol vehicle to smuggle drugs while on duty in southwest Arizona, ...
Coast Guardsman fired gun to avoid fatal crash
A Coast Guardsman fired several gunshots from an inflatable boat before it was slammed by another vessel in a crash that caused the first law ...
California sea smuggling claims Coast Guard life
The killing of a U.S. Coast Guardsman whose crew was chasing a vessel suspected of being laden with drugs appears to be the latest example of how ...