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CHICAGO — A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug trafficking charges. He is the first of El Chapo’s sons to enter a plea deal. Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his brother, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the Sinaloa cartel. They became known locally as the “Chapitos,” […]
Ovidio Guzman Lopez plans to change his not guilty plea during a hearing after arrest in 2023. A son of the infamous Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is expected to plead guilty in a wide-ranging United States drug trafficking case at a court hearing in Chicago. Court records for Ovidio Guzman Lopez […]
The Peruvian National Police (PNP) have received three UH-60A+ Black Hawk helicopters donated by the United States government, as part of a bilateral assistance package aimed at strengthening Peru’s aerial capabilities in the fight against drug trafficking. The helicopters, delivered aboard a C-17A aircraft, were officially handed over at the Police Aviation Decentralized Unit in […]
CNN — It wasn’t long after landing in Bangkok, Thailand, in the summer of 2023 that Jalil Muyeke realized that something was terribly wrong. He knew that the city – where he was planning to start a new data entry and online . . .
WASHINGTON — The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the Justice Department said in a statement. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan, pleaded guilty in Manhattan to conspiring with a network of associates to traffic nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, from Myanmar to other countries,
Bolivia’s highest court on Wednesday approved the extradition of the country’s former top anti-narcotics official to the US to face charges of trafficking narcotics. Maximiliano Dávila Pérez briefly served as Bolivia’s top counter-narcotics official in 2019, before then president Evo Morales resigned. He later served as a police commander in Bolivia under the government of […]
Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, has been arrested on sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Jeffries was arrested in West Palm Beach, Florida. Two associates, Matthew Smith of West Palm Beach and James Jacobson of Wisconsin, were also arrested in connection with sex trafficking . . .
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel who is facing drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court, appeared for the first time Friday before the judge who is presiding over his case. Zambada, 76, appeared at a status conference in Brooklyn . . .
In 2002, Ryan Wedding competed in the men’s parallel giant slalom snowboarding event for Canada at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. He’s now being pursued by federal agents under a U.S. operation dubbed Giant Slalom. Adam Pretty/AP hide caption toggle caption Adam Pretty/AP Ryan Wedding, who represented Canada in snowboarding at the Salt Lake […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed four people, authorities said Thursday. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and extradition of Ryan James Wedding, a […]