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Erie 'drug kingpin' pleads with judge to end 7-year wait and rule on cutting life sentence
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThis story has been updated to reflect an order that the judge on the case issued hours after the...
How a Law No One Understands Brought Down Florida Drug 'Kingpins'
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoPhotos, left to right: Charles Burton Ritchie, Ben Galecki; U.S. Department of Justice Bizarro: The...
Airstrikes kill well-known Syrian drug kingpin
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAirstrikes over southern Syria early Monday killed one of the country’s most well-known drug dealers, an opposition war monitor and a pro-government...
Once Colombia's most-wanted drug lord, the kingpin known as Otoniel gets 45 years in prison in US
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFor years, the man known as Otoniel was seen as one of the world's most dangerous drug lords, the...
U.S. requests extradition of drug kingpin's son, Mexico says
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe United States has asked Mexico to extradite a son of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman...
Dutch drug kingpin Ridouan Taghi sentenced to life over ‘Marengo Trial’ murders
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoRidouan Taghi, reportedly Europe’s most powerful drug lord, has been sentenced to life in prison for...
Under US pressure over fentanyl, Mexico wages “imaginary war on drugs” with raids on inactive labs
Reuters via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMexico's army appears to be raiding only a handful of active drug labs every month, despite U.S....
Drug lord, trafficker, killer of wedding singers: How the ‘New Mouse’ followed in the bloody...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOvidio Guzman’s arrest was hailed as a major blow to Mexico’s all-powerful Sinaloa Cartel. The son...
'Mexican miracle' kickstarted modern U.S.–Mexico drug trade
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe story of the Mexico-U.S. drug trade is less a tale of cops and kingpins than it is a fable about...
4 Reasons why the US shouldn’t use the military to fight Mexico’s drug cartels
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMembers of the self-defense group Pueblos Unidos carry out guard duties in protection of avocado...