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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...
Once Colombia's most-wanted drug lord, the kingpin known as Otoniel gets 45 years in prison in US
Associated Press via AOL· 10 months agoFor years, the man known as Otoniel was seen as one of the world's most dangerous drug lords, the...
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....
Ecuador in state of emergency after drug boss’s prison break
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA notorious trafficking kingpin linked to the escalating drug gang war in Ecuador has broken out of...
Mexico's former top cop on trial in New York, accused of working for Sinaloa cartel
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFormer Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, shown in 2010, is on trial in the...
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...
'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...
'Griselda' is a drug kingpin's cautionary tale— but it's about a woman
NBC Universal via AOL· 5 months agoThe coming Netflix limited series starring Sofia Vergara as the late female drug trafficker Griselda...
Tennessee prisoner charged with running drug ring behind bars linked to Mexican cartels
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe attack was brutal, and it was caught on video. Federal agents say Tennessee drug traffickers...