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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 charges. Jeffries and Smith […]
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 federal court before […]
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 […]
Man who fell asleep in Tesla while driving on US 70 charged with drug trafficking, multiple felonies WRAL News Source link
West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz are accused of adopting Black children and allegedly using them for “forced labor,” according to an indictment. CNN — Two West Virginia parents are awaiting trial on more than a dozen charges after adopting four Black children and allegedly using them for “forced […]
CNN — Two West Virginia parents are awaiting trial on more than a dozen charges after adopting four Black children and allegedly using them for “forced labor” on their farm, court documents show. Jeanne Whitefeather, 62 and Donald Lantz, 63, who are both White, have been charged with human trafficking of children, civil rights violations, […]
NEW YORK — Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced by a U.S. judge on Wednesday to 45 years in a federal prison and an $8 million fine for running his Central American country as a “narco-state” that formed a critical passageway for South American cocaine flowing to the United States. Hernández, 55, who […]