Alvaro Cordoba, the brother of a powerful senator back in Cordoba, has pleaded guilty on Tuesday, admitting to federal narcotics charges as he tried to help smuggle drugs to New York.
A former marine stationed in San Diego has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug smuggling. A former marine stationed in San Diego has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug smuggling.
Authorities in Latin America have confiscated cocaine and other illegal drugs worth $5.7 billion in an operation spanning 15 countries, according to Interpol.
Border Patrol has been finding ways to detect drugs smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico Border for decades now. However, drug cartels have been innovative in their efforts to smuggle illegal drugs like fentanyl, meth, and cocaine across.
Nationwide lockdown measures have crippled the activities of the smugglers, making it even harder to launder money and transfer cash from across the border.
Federal investigators arrested a woman who works as a paralegal specialist in the U.S. Attorney's Office for helping or giving tips to a Mexican Cartel.
In the technologically escalating battle between drug smugglers and law enforcement, U.S. agents are looking to Israel's "underground Iron Dome" for a new tool to gain the upper hand.
Spanish police raided a hideout in the town of Galicia in Malaga province of Spain. It was a successful drug bust operation which yielded three tons of the highly prohibited drug substance known as cocaine.
In Peru police have arrested a 22-year-old Mexican man named Giussepe Tombolan for attempting to smuggle about 6.6 pounds of cocaine back to his home country inside the bellies of two St. Bernard dogs named Bombon and Lola.
The star accepted responsibility for the crime. Singer Martha Heredia, 23, will be facing seven years behind bars for her part in drug trafficking. The "Latin American Idol" winner from 2009 has been sentenced to seven years for smuggling heroin.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement found two new border-crossing tunnels earlier this week, which runs through the Mexico-San Diego border. The discovery, announced on Friday, marks the sixth and seventh tunnels found in the last four years.
