Drug cartel activity hits firms in Mexico; Companies in hot spots urged to plan, protect.Ceniceros, Roberto
But Nicholas Lucier was ordered last year to forfeit the $2 million cash to the director in a separate civil forfeiture case. The long-time island criminal was arrested in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico in 2012 in relation to a 2009 cocaine trafficking investigation. Article content And Daemin Gariepy,...
"They then bring their catch back to lancha camps into Mexico, where the product is ultimately sold and, oftentimes, exported into the United States," it continued. "This activity earns millions a year for lancha camps. In addition, it also leads to the death of other marine species that...
The flight paths span the U.S.-Mexico border, with missions in California, Arizona and Texas. CNN also identified at least one longer mission that looped around the Baja peninsula and passed near Sinaloa on Feb. 4. That plane, an Air Force RC-135 “Rivet,” specializes in hoovering up c...
While CyberCartel seems to have been active since 2012 and relies on MaaS offerings from well-known malware families, Fenix botnet was allegedly created at the end of last year and “specifically targets users accessing government services, particularly tax-paying individuals in Mexico and Chile”...
The Treasury also sanctioned group members Hector Alfonso Araujo Peralta and Raul Rivas Chaires, alongside three Mexico-based transportation firms accused of facilitating their activity. It said all individuals named were currently fugitives from U.S. federal drug trafficking indictments. "The Vale...
It is also estimated that the war on drugs has caused over 50,000 deaths in Mexico alone since 2006 (Keefe). Deaths are often overlooked because they are not compiled by thousands at once, but gradually over a large area. Other illegal activity such as kidnapping and oil theft have came ...
It is the latest in a series of brazen thefts that have been on the rise in the past two years in a vast stretch of land between California and Arizona. Federal officials attribute the activity to associates of a transnational criminal organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico. ...
The fatal kidnapping – and the possibility it was carried out by a cartel – has brought increased attention to ongoing efforts by US and Mexican officials to curb cartel activity that is a primary driver of the fentanyl trade between the countries. Mexico is the “dominant source” of fentan...
“have conspired and have attempted to import into Canada and distribute bulk cocaine from Mexico.” Article content “As part of these efforts, the DTO has agreed to, and made arrangements to, purchase the cocaine from the Cártel de Sinaloa (‘Sinal...