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Mexico arrests meth trafficker linked to drug lord Guzman

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Federal police said on Tuesday they had arrested a major methamphetamine trafficker linked to Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, the latest in a series of blows against the country's largest drug smuggling network.Read Full Story

Narco Blog: Mexican Police Arrest a Sinaloa Cartel Boss

By hsnews on | From hispanicallyspeakingnews.com

A Sinaloa cartel boss wanted in the United States in connection with the deaths of 11 migrants in 2009 was arrested by the Federal Police, the Mexican Public Safety Secretariat said. Fidel Mancinas Franco, who ran the cartel’s operations in the northern border state of Sonora, was detained on Saturday, the secretariat said. The suspect was captured by the Federal Police on a highway outside Cananea, a city in Sonora, and taken to Mexico City. Mancinas Franco is the subject of an arrest...Read Full Story

Narco Blog: Mexico Arrests Key Gun Smuggler “Lalo” for Powerful Sinaloa Cartel

By hsnews on | From hispanicallyspeakingnews.com

Federal police have arrested a man suspected of being one of Mexico’s leading smugglers of firearms, ammunition and explosives, the Public Safety Secretariat said Thursday. In a statement, it said the authorities arrested 34-year-old Eduardo Avila Ojeda Wednesday in the northwestern city of Culiacan, capital of Sinaloa state, as part of an investigation launched after the Dec. 30 capture of another suspected arms trafficker, Ramiro Rendon Rivera. Intelligence reports indicate that Avila...Read Full Story

Mexico arrests figure in Fast and Furious gun-smuggling scandal

By dirtyp on | From waronyou.com

Mexico arrests figure in Fast and Furious gun-smuggling scandal February 8, 2012 Print Version Source: LA Times REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have arrested a reputed enforcer for the country’s most powerful drug cartel — a man also alleged to have amassed weapons from the U.S. government’s failed Fast and Furious gun-smuggling operation (link, in Spanish, includes video). Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, 33, is also wanted by U.S. officials on drug-trafficking...Read Full Story

Corrected: Mexico drug gangs up ante with high-tech tunnels

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MEXICO CITY , Mexico ( Reuters ) - When architect Felipe de Jesus Corona built Mexico's most powerful drug lord a 200-foot-long tunnel under the U.S.-Mexican border with a hydraulic lift entrance opened by a fake water tap, the kingpin was impressed. The architect "made me one f---ing cool tunnel" Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman said, according to court testimony that helped sentence Corona to 18 years in prison in 2006. Built below a pool table in his lawyer's home, the tunnel was among the first of...Read Full Story

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Mexican Police Capture Major Sinaloa Cartel Meth Producer

Less than a week after seizing 15 tons of methamphetamine in Jalisco state, Mexican authorities have arrested a major meth producer for the Sinaloa drug cartel. The ministry of public security said intelligence work led federal authorities to Jamie Herrera ...

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World Digest: Meth-maker for Mexico's Sinaloa cartel arrested; Pakistan to...

MEXICO Suspected meth-maker arrested MEXICO CITY - Mexican officials say they've arrested a man who manufactured methamphetamine for the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

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Drug maker for `El Chapo' seized in Mexico

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Mexico arrests meth trafficker linked to drug lord Guzman

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NM drug trafficking ring linked to Sinaloa cartel

Members of a major drug trafficking and money laundering Albuquerque organization recently named in an indictment had connections to the deadly Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, federal officials said Friday. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Keith Brown said that the 15 men named in a 29-count federal indictment unsealed last week worked as a large-scale marijuana and cocaine distributor for the violent cartel. "This was a huge...

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'Sinaloa cartel enforcer' Marrufo arrested in Mexico

Counter-narcotics Police Chief Ramon Eduardo Pequeno said Mr Torres Marrufo's capture was a severe blow to the Sinaloa cartel. The cartel, which is led by Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, is one of Mexico's most powerful. Prosecutors say Mr Torres Marrufo led its ...

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Mexico arrests Sinaloa drug cartel's reputed enforcer

Mexican authorities have arrested a reputed enforcer for the country's most powerful drug cartel, a man also alleged to have amassed weapons from the U.S. government's failed Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation. Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo ...

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