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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 18 -- A senior Mexican police official who worked as the country's liaison with Interpol was arrested Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into information leaks from top law enforcement authorities to the nation's notorious drug cartels.
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Mexico's attorney general says police have arrested a senior figure in a powerful drug cartel.
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At least 35 officials and agents from an elite unit have been fired or arrested following tips from an informant involving the so-called Beltran Leyva cartel. In a damning blow to its fight against drug traffickers, the Mexican government Monday acknowledged severe penetration of a top law enforcement agency by a vicious gang that may even have bought intelligence on U.S. operations from renegade employees.
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MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen ambushed and killed two senior police officers with grenades and guns in Mexico, where escalating cartel violence has killed more than 4,000 people this year, police said on Monday.
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Police in the Texas Panhandle are investigating a minor drug allegation made against former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf, who this week was placed on leave from his job as an assistant football coach at West Texas A&M.
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Mexico's liaison with Interpol is arrested as part of a probe into suspected links between officials and drug traffickers.
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The arrest of Ricardo Gutirrez Vargas, who worked as Mexico’s main liaison with Interpol, was the latest blow to Mexico’s police forces.
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CNN's Joe Duran reports on the arrest of Mexico's drug czar and what it may mean for the battle against the cartels.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Congress passed a packet of laws on Tuesday to give police and prosecutors more powers to put suspected drug smugglers and kidnappers behind bars as the country grapples with spiraling cartel violence.
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Police and health experts are advising people against using unlicensed tattooists operating in the Highlands.
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The first person ever to be charged with drug-impaired driving in Toronto is set to appear in court Thursday.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hooded gunmen believed engaged in a drugs feud burst into a bar in northern Mexico and shot dead 11 people in the third drugs-related massacre in the state since July, officials said.
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Elections Nunavut says the territorial election in Iqaluit Centre will continue while the RCMP conduct an investigation into a candidate's eligibility.
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Oct. 10 - Hundreds of teachers, residents and police clash in Morelos state during a violent protest against a new education plan.
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Former wildman slugger and admitted steroid user Jose Canseco was held by immigration authorities at the Mexican border for more than nine hours after agents allegedly found a prescription fertility drug on him, his lawyer said Friday night.
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Ignacio Alvarado, 40, is a freelance investigative reporter and Reuters contributor in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez where he was born and now lives with his wife and two children. He has been a journalist for 20 years -- seven in Mexico City, the rest in Ciudad Juarez. In the following story, he describes life in an increasingly lawless city where it's becoming almost commonplace to see daylight drug gang shootings and walk past dumped bodies.
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A 16-year-old boy remains in a stable condition in hospital after being stabbed in Birmingham.
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The person who overdosed, identified by family members as 18-year-old Greg Watt, was unresponsive when family members checked on him Tuesday morning, according to the WSPA report
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Oct 15, Galle: A man who was arrested yesterday in Galle for possession of heroin was found dead this morning in the police cell.
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Long a corridor for narcotics headed for the U.S., Mexico is now contending with its own addiction problem, as U.S. border controls push traffickers to look elsewhere. When the dope thugs beat him with a pistol, Rodrigo Sonck decided enough was enough.
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Two suspects were arrested Thursday and accused of killing 24 men whose bodies were found last month in a rural area outside Mexico City.
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Police detain a 32-year-old west London man in connection with a murder in Hayes.
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Police are asking for help in tracing a man in connection with a murder in Hayes, west London
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In Mexico City, he tells officials that aid to fight drug gangs is coming and voices concern about violence spilling over the border. Meanwhile, more than 20 die in the latest toll in Mexico's drug wa Amid another round of violence that claimed more than 20 lives, a top U.S. drug official Friday sounded an alarm over the number of killings and kidnappings that spill into the southern United States from Mexico.
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Oct 19, Colombo: An inspector of Mirihana Police was arrested in connection with the Sakvithi Ranasingha's money fraud which is called as the biggest money scam ever reported in Sri Lankan history.
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Experts say the explosion of drug-related violence in Mexico is hardening the country's young people, filling their heads with awful images that are hard to shake.
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Police are no longer trying to find a truck seen near the site of last week's second gas-pipeline bombing near Dawson Creek, B.C.
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The Mexican government's crackdown on drug traffickers has sent the big players underground, along with all their free-flowing dollars. A ruby-red Hummer glistened idly on the quiet showroom floor, its only visitor a janitor polishing its doors and bumpers. The dealership had no customers.
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A Viennese count has been arrested as part of an expanding multi-country investigation into suspected bribery by BAE Systems to win European arms deals
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The heads of four men were delivered in an icebox by a courier service to a police station in northern Mexico, local authorities say.
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The death of a 41-year-old man in his home is treated as unexplained by police investigators.
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The U.S. Secretary of State’s trip was the latest in a series of visits by top-level officials in the Bush administration, which sees the violent clashes in Mexico as a threat to U.S. security.
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New Carrollton's tiny municipal police force was in disarray yesterday, its chief on leave and the department under investigation after a group of subordinate officers alleged that other members of the force embezzled money, assaulted a suspect in custody and falsified reports about seized evidence.
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