Read more drug traffickers stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/32785/drug-traffickers.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:49:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73365/mexican-gangs-move-into-us-indian-land.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMexican drug gangs have been rapidly expanding their marijuana-growing operations in the US in recent years, especially on Indian reservations. The gangs take advantage of underfunded tribal police departments, large tracts of unused land, and overlapping jurisdictions to set up grows on reservations from California to South Dakota, authorities say....http://www.newser.com/story/73365/mexican-gangs-move-into-us-indian-land.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 2:12:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72385/cocaine-sub-nabbed-off-guatemala.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US Navy and Guatemalan forces have seized a makeshift submarine carrying 10 tons of cocaine. Three Colombians and a Mexican crewman were arrested on board. The haul is the biggest drug bust ever made in Guatemala, which has become a major transit point for drug traffickers seeking to secure...http://www.newser.com/story/72385/cocaine-sub-nabbed-off-guatemala.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 Oct 2009 3:13:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70420/us-coast-guard-brit-navy-seize-380m-in-cocaine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe British Navy and US Coast Guard have seized a record $380 million worth of cocaine on a fishing boat off the coast of South America. The boat was searched for 24 hours before investigators broke up the concrete floor with sledgehammers and discovered 5.5 tons of the drug...http://www.newser.com/story/70420/us-coast-guard-brit-navy-seize-380m-in-cocaine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 2:46:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67891/mexican-drug-informants-import-violence-to-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration and state governments are spending billions to keep Mexico's escalating drug war from spilling over the border. But the feds fighting trafficking have also relied on Mexican cartel members for intelligence—and that, says the Washington Post , has unleashed gangland-style violence in American cities. Drug kingpins living...http://www.newser.com/story/67891/mexican-drug-informants-import-violence-to-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 5:03:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65480/mexican-pot-lords-see-green-in-strapped-calif-parks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMexican drug traffickers are having a banner year growing pot in California’s plentiful—and, due to the state budget crisis, woefully understaffed—parkland, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Authorities think California might see a record-breaking, multi-billion dollar crop. “Our whole state is overrun,” said a spokeswoman for California’s Bureau of...http://www.newser.com/story/65480/mexican-pot-lords-see-green-in-strapped-calif-parks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 28 Jul 2009 13:41:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64811/drug-lords-bling-dazzles-mexican-agency.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmid the ongoing drug wars in Mexico, one small branch of the country's finance ministry has a special job: selling off the jewel-encrusted pistols, armor-plated Hummers, and even wild panthers and lions seized from dealers' bling-tastic mansions. "You realize that the mansions in movies like Scarface aren't exaggerations," one official...http://www.newser.com/story/64811/drug-lords-bling-dazzles-mexican-agency.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Jul 2009 7:59:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64419/dozen-mangled-mexican-bodies-were-feds.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwelve people tortured, murdered, and dumped along a highway in the Mexican state of Michoacan Monday were Mexican federal agents, the AP reports. The off-duty agents—11 men and one woman—were caught in an ambush by members of a drug cartel, officials said. The murders are believed to be...http://www.newser.com/story/64419/dozen-mangled-mexican-bodies-were-feds.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Jul 2009 5:12:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63917/mexican-army-slammed-for-drug-war-torture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA growing body of evidence points to widespread human rights abuses by the Mexican military in its battle against drug cartels, the Washington Post reports. Human rights groups say the army has responded to the traffickers' brutal tactics with equal brutality, carrying out deadly campaigns of "disappearances," forced confessions, torture,...http://www.newser.com/story/63917/mexican-army-slammed-for-drug-war-torture.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 09 Jul 2009 3:26:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58279/texas-beachcombers-find-500k-worth-of-cocaine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA couple hunting for seashells and shark teeth on a Texas beach this week stumbled across 53 pounds of pure cocaine in neatly wrapped packages, KFDM News reports. The haul has a street value of some $500,000, according to local cops. They believe it was probably chucked overboard by...http://www.newser.com/story/58279/texas-beachcombers-find-500k-worth-of-cocaine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 07 May 2009 1:49:04 CDT