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[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo
Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com
The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.
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[Link] The Cocaine Queen of Honduras Was Just Extradited to the US
Read: 28/7/2022 www.vice.com
Honduras just put one of its most notorious suspected drug bosses on a plane to the United States. Herlinda Bobadilla, alias “La Chinda,” is the 62-year-old alleged matriarch of the Montes drug cartel.
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[Link] A $200 Million Load of Fentanyl Was Just Seized in El Chapo’s Hometown
Read: 11/7/2022 www.vice.com
Authorities also found 555 kg of methamphetamine, 31 kg of cocaine, 7 kg of heroin, and over 71,000 kg of chemical precursors. Ten people were arrested in the bust, according to a Mexican army press release.
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[Link] How drug smugglers are trying to outsmart border officials at Australian ports
Read: 10/5/2022 www.abc.net.au
International crime syndicates are attempting to smuggle drugs into the country strapped to the hulls of cargo ships to evade detection, police say. Once the ship arrives at the port, scuba divers are standing by to collect the contraband.
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[Link] Mexico Recaptures Elusive Gulf Cartel Boss For Third Time
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY — A top boss of the infamous Gulf Cartel was arrested this weekend in Mexico City for the third time. His detention is one of the highest-profile captures for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. Whether Cárdenas will remain in prison is yet to be seen.
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[Link] Richard Branson Wants Singapore To Spare a Prisoner's Life. We Asked Him Why.
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
In an interview with VICE World News, the billionaire anti-death penalty activist highlighted the case of an intellectually disabled man sitting on death row. It was through international headlines that Richard Branson learned about an especially disturbing death penalty case unfolding in Singapore.
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[Link] Prisoners Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Inside a Baby That Ended Up Dead
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—A dead infant found in a trash can inside a notorious Mexican prison has fueled allegations that the child’s body may have been used to smuggle drugs into the facility.
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[Link] Video Shows Narco Drones Dropping Bombs As People Flee
Read: 13/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Terrifying video footage from a narco drone dropping bombs as people scatter below has gone viral in Mexico.
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[Link] Alleged mini meth lab and firearms discovered in PNG hotel, but Australian manager won't face drug charges
Read: 25/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Papua New Guinea police say outdated drug laws have left them unable to lay drug charges against the Australian manager of a Port Moresby hotel where an alleged clandestine meth lab and illegal firearms were discovered.
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[Link] Indian police charge local Amazon executives over marijuana trade
Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police in the central state of Madhya Pradesh arrested two men with 20 kilograms of marijuana on November 14 and found they were using the Amazon India website to order and further smuggle the substance in the guise of stevia leaves, a natural sweetener, to other Indian states.
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[Link] Inside a Booming Black Market for Heroin in the Shadow of the Himalayas
Read: 19/11/2021 www.vice.com
We spoke to a dealer who dodges Indian soldiers and checkpoints to sell drugs in the world’s most militarised zone. Srinagar, KASHMIR – Javed has been looking over his shoulder more often than he'd like.
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[Link] Police presence at music festivals can lead to ‘panic overdoses’ of drugs
Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police presence at music festivals leads some people to “panic overdose” in their attempt to avoid getting caught, an Australian study has found, with experts calling for a change in policing culture at festivals.
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[Link] Drug Kingpin El Mencho's Wife Was Just Arrested in Mexico
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities announced the arrest Tuesday of Rosalinda González Valencia, charged with laundering money for the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which is led by her husband, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho.
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[Link] Intellectually Disabled Man Spared Imminent Execution After Catching COVID
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
In a twist few saw coming, Singapore’s highest court has delayed the execution of an intellectually disabled man convicted of drug trafficking after he was found to have tested positive for COVID-19.
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[Link] The US Just Put a $5 Million Bounty on El Chapo’s Brother
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—The U.S. government is beefing up its search for high ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel, including the brother of incarcerated kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. The move comes as fentanyl overdoses in the U.S. continue to surge, and seizures in Mexico spike.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Millions of Pills and Tons of Meth Make Up Asia’s Biggest Ever Drug Seizure
Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com
This is what Asia’s single biggest illegal drug bust looked like, after authorities in Laos intercepted a smuggler’s vehicle in the country’s northwestern Bokeo Province on Wednesday night.
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[Link] Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
VICE World News brings you exclusive reporting from Latin America’s criminal underworld on the boss women you’ve never heard of. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — She told me her name was Brenda. When I met her, she had been in the Pavón prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City for 20 years.
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[Link] State of Emergency Declared Over Crime Spike and Cocaine Boom in Ecuador
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lasso’s declaration comes amid spiraling violence in the country, and just 18 days after a confrontation in an Ecuadorian prison between rival criminal groups left 116 inmates dead, including six who were decapitated.
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[Link] Historic Drug Bust Found 450 Kilograms of Heroin Among Ceramic Tiles
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
The heroin, which was believed to be worth at least $140 million, was hidden among ceramic tiles that were being transported in an industrial shipping container addressed to a Melbourne business, border officers confirmed on Saturday.
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[Link] Women Who Dressed as Couriers With Pink Backpacks to Deliver Drugs Over Lockdown Jailed
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Each of the women, all Brazilian nationals aged 24 to 33, wore a courier uniform, with distinctive pink backpacks, each with a “team” number written on (1, 2, 3 and 4), and a different coloured wallet inside with the driver’s name on.
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[Link] Two Dead After 12 Inmates Tried to Get Drunk on Hand Sanitizer
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Two prison inmates died and ten others were hospitalised in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo after they ingested hand sanitiser to get drunk, prompting a ban on alcohol-based sanitising products in all prisons across the country, according to the Department of Prisons.
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[Link] Organised crime going undetected, says AFP, as Australian hits US ‘most wanted’ list
Read: 17/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
A top security official has warned that 90 per cent of Australia’s organised crime groups are operating with relative impunity, as police say employees of the Australian arm of Dubai’s government air services company have been used to infiltrate Sydney airport and smuggle drugs.
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[Link] First person sentenced in SA after Operation Ironside arrests to spend two years behind bars
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The first person in South Australia to be sentenced as part of Operation Ironside will spend at least two years in prison for transporting millions of dollars' worth of methamphetamine earlier this year.
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[Link] Three charged for allegedly trying to shoot drugs into SA prison by bow and arrow
Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
Three people have been arrested for allegedly trying to use a bow and arrow to shoot drugs into the Port Augusta Prison. Late yesterday afternoon, police were called when three people were seen in a car acting suspiciously behind the jail.
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[Link] The Unexpected Places the Taliban Got Rich From Before Taking Over Afghanistan
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
The extremist group made a staggering $1.6 billion last year, a key factor that helped them gain control of Afghanistan at lightning speed. On the streets of Kabul after the Taliban takeover, Afghans were running from one empty ATM to the next. Prices soared, the U.S. froze $9.
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[Link] First China, Now India: How Drug Cartels Get Chemicals for Meth and Fentanyl
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Restrictions in China have pushed drug traffickers to source the chemical “precursors” they need in India. Shopping for the chemical ingredients used to make fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other illicit synthetic drugs is still easy—if you know where to look.
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[Link] The Coltan in Your Smartphone is Financing Colombian Guerrilla Armies
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
MEDELLIN, Colombia–Authorities in southern Colombia pulled over a cargo truck looking for drugs in early August. But instead of finding a pile of cocaine bricks, the truck was loaded with a sandy, blue-ish black rock called coltan.
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[Link] Man Sentenced for Smuggling 80 Pounds of Speed Disguised as COVID Vaccine
Read: 17/8/2021 www.vice.com
According to Norwegian national broadcaster NRK, customs officials initially intercepted the 50-year-old Polish man in January shortly after he arrived from Denmark via a ferry.
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