Saturday, November 16, 2024

Ex-Mexico army chief arrested in LA on drugs, money charges

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country’s army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources said Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Ex-Mexico army chief arrested in LA on drugs, money charges

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country’s army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources said Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Mexico's ex-defense minister arrested in Los Angeles

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country’s army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources confirmed Thursday.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Gunmen wound Mexico City police chief; 3 dead

Mexico’s intelligence agency apparently had information that the cartel was planning an attack
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Warrant issued for Mexico's ex-head of investigations

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican judge issued an arrest warrant for the former head of investigations for the Attorney General's Office for alleged violations in the investigation of the case of 43 college students who disappeared in 2014, officials said Wednesday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Mexico loss of 2nd in charge won't change drug war

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS AGO

Drug cartel suspected in massacre

SAN FERNANDO, Mexico - Working under heavy security in a region controlled by a brutal drug gang, authorities and diplomats began the gruesome task Thursday of identifying the bodies of 72 Central and South American migrants killed just 100 miles from their destination.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Calderon critical of low conviction rate

MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon questioned prosecutors and judges Wednesday as to why so few people are caught and punished for violent crimes in Mexico.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Mayor: Car bomb used in attack on Mexican police

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico's decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez said Friday.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO