drug gangs

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk --- 6 days ago
The sun was shining over the Alps when Sghair Lamiri, a convicted robber, took an afternoon stroll with a friend in the yard of a remand centre near Grenoble. ...

Source: www.stltoday.com --- 6 days ago
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Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 5 days ago
Mexico City - Eight dead bodies were found Tuesday alongside messages from drug gangs in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana, where 16 dead bodies were found a day earlier. Six of the bodies found Tuesday in the city along the US border were inside ... ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 15 hours ago
Police said Saturday that they had found nine more bodies dumped in Tijuana, where 49 people were killed last week in violence related to the drug trade, reports the Associated Press.Municipal police found five of the bodies between two small shopping centers in the eastern part of the city. They had been beaten and their hands bound. The bodies of two beheaded men were found wrapped in blankets on a road elsewhere in the city, according to the Baja California state attorney general's office. The heads were in black plastic bags nearby.A piece of cardboard left by the bodies read, "These are the bricklayer's people." On Monday, a message found with 12 bodies next to an elementary school threatened "all of those who are with 'The Engineer.'" On Friday night, two men were found shot to death in the same empty lot by the school. State Atty. Gen. Rommel Moreno Manjarrez has blamed the violence on warring leaders in the Arellano Felix gang. More than 400 people have been killed this year in drug-related violence in Tijuana.Execution-style killings, beheadings and shootouts have soared across Mexico since the army and federal police intensified their fight against the drug trade nearly two years ago.Despite President Felipe Calderon's efforts to combat the country's drug lords, 40% of Mexicans feel less secure here than they did two years ago, before Calderon's assault on the drug gangs began, according to the results of a survey publi ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 4 days ago
Stretched thin in an uphill battle against drug gangs, the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderon faces increasingly stark options at a pivotal moment. A fatal Sept. 15 grenade attack on civilians in western Mexico, coming on top of a... ...

Source: www.salon.com --- 5 days ago
Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Tuesday sent a sweeping security initiative to Congress aimed at weeding out police corruption and streamlining the exchange of information on criminals. With drug gangs dumping bodies near elementary schools and staging grenade attacks on Independence... ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 5 days ago
Though an attack on civilians in Morelia has tested the public's stomach for the increasingly savage conflict, the president has little room to pull back from his crackdown. Stretched thin in an uphill battle against drug gangs, the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderon faces increasingly stark options at a pivotal moment. ...

Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 6 days ago
Investigators believe victims were killed by warring drug gangs ...

Source: living.scotsman.com --- 3 days ago
COCAINE seizures are continuing to rise in the Lothians as drugs gangs look to flood the Capital with the class A drug. ...

Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 5 days ago
The Government is considering adopting Australian anti-gang legislation in a bid to stamp out organised crime, gangs and drug labs. Police minister Annette King and corrections minister Phil Goff this morning met South Australian... ...

Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 5 days ago
Stretched thin in an uphill battle against drug gangs, the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderon faces increasingly stark options at a pivotal moment. ...

Source: www.nzherald.co.nz --- 7 days ago
The Government is considering adopting Australian anti-gang legislation in a bid to stamp out organised crime, gangs and drug labs. Police minister Annette King and corrections minister Phil Goff this morning met South Australian... ...

Source: news.scotsman.com --- 5 days ago
POLICE discovered a batch of houses converted into cannabis farms by Asian crime gangs after they arrested men with a harvested consignment of the drug bound for Glasgow. ...

Source: www.ajc.com --- 6 days ago
Residents didn't pay much attention to the spacious, rented two-story gray home with the decorative stone facade on Hamilton Road, south of Lawrenceville. They did notice a curious increase in traffic on the quiet residential street. Little did the neighbors or the landlord know that the house practically bulged with millions of dollars in drug money. On Sept. 16, folks learned that the house was home to an alleged local leader of one of Mexico's most notorious drug gangs, the brutal Gulf cartel, known for kidnappings, torture, murder and beheadings in Mexico. ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 6 days ago
The bodies of 11 men and a woman were found dumped in an empty lot next to a Tijuana elementary school Monday morning, an hour before children were scheduled to arrive. City officials suspended classes after finding the victims, most of whom had been bound and tortured. Some were only partially clothed, said Prisna Perez, state police spokeswoman in Tijuana. Minutes after the grisly discovery, four other bodies were found in another empty lot in Tijuana, and two other bodies were discovered late Sunday in a lot next to a factory. Investigators believe 16 of the victims were killed by warring drug gangs. The other two were victims of street crime, said Jose Manuel Yepiz, spokesman for the Baja California attorney general's office. Victor Clark Alfaro, director of the Binational Center for Human Rights, said the killings come as the Arellano Felix cartel suffers internal strife and seeks to fend off Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's push into the region. Yepiz said the 12 bodies were discovered next to a message written on a white piece of cardboard that read, "This is going to happen to all of those who are with 'The Engineer' for being blabbermouths." He said police also found a message with the four bodies found in an empty lot in a residential area that read, "I'm not a traitor but I don't like to be in the company of cowards." Tijuana is among the cities hardest hit by violence as Mexico's drug cartels battle for lucrative smuggling ...

Source: la.curbed.com --- 6 days ago
Framed as a random shooting after yesterday's Abbot Kinney street festival by the LA Times , Yo! Venice's commenters insist the paper got it wrong: "The man was killed outside of the Other Room, when he left the bar. It was not connected to the street festival, and it wasn’t a drunken fight. It was someone who knew who they were aiming for ." And accusations of drug-related activity outside the Other Room and of gangs and guns abound on the message board. Sounds like an Abbot Kinney that's far different than the one known (at least to visitors) for upscale restaurants and posh boutiques. [Yo! Venice] ...

Source: westernstandard.blogs.com --- 1 day ago
The best argument against the war on drugs is that through criminalizing the sale of drugs and significantly increasing their price through prohibition it contributes significantly to the funding of organized crime. We know that organized crime is involved in the sale of drugs, we know that it's an extremely lucrative trade, and we know that the profits involved raise the stakes in a world in which the remedy to disagreements involves violence more often as those stakes go up. In responding to comments on this post, though, a question occurred to me: is this argument a fair one to use in the intellectual discussion of marijuana legalization specifically? Marijuana is different from most drugs in one very important way: it's easy and cheap to produce in a usable form. You don't need a complex network to come up with large quantities of pot; the ease of production makes it a poor candidate for the funding of organized crime. While it's easy to see that marijuana prohibition is responsible for, for instance, children being involved in its distribution network, (do adults buy beer from teenagers?) its contribution to the funding of gangs, guns and violence is harder to pin down. This doesn't mean that marijuana's prohibition doesn't have real effects (such as the aforementioned inclusion of children in drug sales) that could be almost immediately remedied with legalization, but it does mean that those of us who see self-ownership and ...