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Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered men, then face killers in the confessional.
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.
One immigration agent was accused of running an Internet pornography business and enjoying an improper relationship with an informant. Another let an informant smuggle in a group of illegal immigrants. And in a third case, an agent was investigated for soliciting sex from a witness in a marriage fraud case.
A violent and ongoing battle between two powerful drug cartels has pushed this northern border city's murder rate — already one of the highest in the world — to new records in 2009, according to a government report issued Wednesday.
Officers found the decapitated bodies of nine men in an abandoned pickup truck on a highway in the drug-plagued Mexican state of Guerrero, police said Friday.
Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas.
With a stucco mansion in the hills outside San Juan and four luxury cars, including a Corvette, Wilfredo Rodriguez lived well for a part-time worker on an airport ground crew.
Police say a body with both arms cut off was found dumped on a street in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.
Neighbors mopped blood from the sidewalk outside a drug rehabilitation center Thursday, cleaning up the carnage after gunmen lined up patients against a wall and then riddled them with bullets, killing 18.
Shopkeepers in this pine-covered mountain region easily recite the list of "protection" fees they pay to La Familia drug cartel to stay in business: 100 pesos a month for a stall in a street market, 30,000 pesos for an auto dealership or construction-supply firm.
Mexican prosecutors released the mother of reputed La Familia drug cartel leader Servando "La Tuta" Gomez on Wednesday after detaining her for two days despite his threat to retaliate against police if they bother his family.
As police pieced together the details of the contract killing of a Mexican drug cartel lieutenant-turned-U.S. informant, a surprising connection emerged: their chief suspect was an informant himself.
The new U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Tuesday that a report to be finished next week and submitted to the Senate will stress that Mexico is making progress on respecting human rights in its fight against drug cartels.
It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico's bloody drug war tossed into a public place.
The Mexican government has apologized to Roman Catholic officials and parishioners after storming a church during Mass to arrest a drug suspect.
Mexican police say they have captured 11 suspected members of the La Familia cartel and seized a methamphetamine lab in the western state of Michoacan.
In this Midwestern town 1,500 miles from Mexico, in a place that proudly proclaims itself the birthplace of kindergarten, Coco the cocaine kingpin flourished.
Mexico on Thursday ordered 5,500 federal police, soldiers and navy personnel to move into a gang-plagued western state following a cartel's slaying of 20 officers and troops in one of the boldest revenge attacks ever mounted against the government.
Mexico quadrupled the federal police presence Thursday in a western state after a cartel killed 20 officers and troops in the boldest revenge attack ever mounted by drug traffickers against the government.
Drug dealer Hector Rodriguez Estrada had a feeling he was next.
When Mario Anguiano successfully ran for mayor of Colima three years ago, no one much cared that his brother and cousin were in prison on drug charges.
When 11-year-old Priscilla Ibarra Alfaro left her mother's house in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez to get a bite to eat, relatives didn't give it a second thought.
The savage drug war in Mexico. Crumbling state budgets. Weariness with current drug policy. The election of a president who said, "Yes — I inhaled."
Abuses by the Mexican military have surged since the government deployed troops to fight drug cartels more than two years ago, and too little is done to investigate allegations of rapes, killing and torture, a rights group said Thursday.
The Nutt Sack Affair (part 493)-- Ben Goldacre on Drug Prohibition & Scientific EvidenceIf you wish to justify a policy that will plainly increase the harms associated with each individual act of drug use, by creating violent criminal gangs as distributors, driving the sale of contaminated black market drugs, blighting the careers of users caught by the police, crim …
Should St. Mary of Egypt Have Done Jail Time?An outstanding article questioning the American legal system of outlawing immoral behavior.
Traffic Ticket to the Exciting World of Ratting on Violent CriminalsEven when people are arrested on drug charges, the News notes, making them into informants can have deadly results.
Grassley Defends Censorship Amendment, Says Webb Commission Should "Do What We Tell Them To Do"Sen. Charles Grassley, author of the censorship amendment to the National Criminal Justice Commission Act, was asked about his anti-speech tendencies by a reporter on a conference call today. The full transcript is below, but here's the most interesting part of what Sen.
Republican Hypocrisy Case #23758740975700935787: Grassley Proposes to Censor Drug War Reform SuggestionsSen. Jim Webb (D-Virginia) has bravely proposed legislation to create a Blue Ribbon commission to conduct an 18-month, "top-to-bottom" review of America's criminal justice system with the goal of bringing U.S.
Federal prosecutor: Medical marijuana raids won't stopIt's not clear from Russionello's comments whether Holder's instructions were intended to have no effect on policy, or whether Russionello, an appointee of President George W. Bush, is himself applying a restrictive interpretation of the attorney general's memo.
Let's be honest... legalise drugs and society would benefitUntil the 1960s, our legal system was overshadowed by pre-libertarian theories of the state, which criminalised breaches of Christian morality and started from the assumption that governments were entitled to regulate the private behaviour of adults.
The Most Important Argument Against Drug ProhibitionThe only unanswerable argument is the argument from the standpoint of liberty and freedom from government intrusion into one's personal life.
Federal gov't OKs medical marijuana. First step toward legalization? Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Jack Cafferty and readers sound off about the issues of decriminalization of pot, medical marijuana, and legalization/taxation of pot for any purpose.
Was Brotherhood member Brenice Lee Smith a Felonious Monk?He spent decades on the run, but the last member of the so-called "Hippie Mafia" to evade the long arm of the law has finally been captured and is now in custody at the Orange County Jail, having pleaded not guilty to 40-year-old charges of hash smuggling and LSD peddling.
Suspected LSD ring fugitive arrested in CaliforniaA suspected member of an LSD distribution ring has been arrested in California after nearly four decades on the lam.
Obama administration issues new policy on medical marijuanaThe Obama administration delivered new guidance on medical marijuana to federal prosecutors Monday, signaling a broad policy shift that will mean fewer crackdowns against dispensaries and the people who use them.
Forfeiture Laws, the War of Drugs, and Alvarez v. SmithIn Alvarez, the federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it was unconstitutional for Chicago police to seize cars and other property and hold it for many months at a time a without giving the owners any chance challenge the seizure.
If they would legalize drugs and tax them this sort of violence would stop and poor nations would have new revenue channels boosting their infrastructure.
Calif. Gov Candidate Gavin Newsom Calls Drug War a FailureOne question focused on the "war on drugs" and marijuana decriminalization. Mayor Newsom took the opportunity to reiterate his longstanding opposition to punitive drug policies, stating, "I really feel strongly about the drug war being an abject failure.
Corrupt former St. Louis cop gets year in jailA former St. Louis police officer who admitted stealing cash, planting drugs, charging an innocent man and lying to cover it up was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison.
The Drugs of John GrayThe government's War on Drugs, like its War on Poverty and its War on Terror, is a failure. It has clogged the judicial system, unnecessarily swelled prison populations, fostered violence, corrupted law enforcement, eroded civil liberties, and destroyed financial privacy.
There are no victories in the drug warNow I want to know how much money was spent on this futility? How much police resources went into this band aid that could not possibly stop the bleeding? Is an attempt to command the tide not to come in really a good use of taxpayer's dollars?
Cartels Face an Economic BattleThe shifting economics of the marijuana trade have broad implications for Mexico's war against the drug cartels, suggesting that market forces, as much as law enforcement, can extract a heavy price from criminal organizations that have used the spectacular profits generated by po …
Awesome Marijuana Segment on the Today ShowReefer Madness! The changing face of pot smokers!
Booming medical pot sales concern officials"Once we acknowledge patients have a right to cannabis, they have to get it somewhere," he says.
The Drug War Has Failed. What Comes Next?What we need is regulation instead of prohibition, because we need to have more control over these substances, not less.
DOJ Admits Abuse of Patriot ActIn 2006, we found out that throughout 2004 and 2005 the FBI had abused the procedure hundreds of times, but they assured us that the situation had been fixed. And in 2008, we found out that the abuse had continued throughout 2006.
The Associated Press: Canada's 'Prince of Pot' taken into custodyVANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canada's so-called Prince of Pot is now in jail awaiting extradition to the United States for selling marijuana seeds.
Grandma Arrested for Purchasing Cold MedicineWhen Sally Harpold bought cold medicine for her family back in March, she never dreamed that four months later she would end up in handcuffs.
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