In the last 10 years the world's leading economic powers have driven important changes in international policy on illicit drug trafficking. They have set up and financed semi-formal or informal transnational groups to proactively implement policy on the ground. This is a reaction to the bureaucratic, formal mechanisms of the United Nations and its agencies, where policy is diluted by the need for consensus among 53 member states, plus various regional groupings of other countries. The new groups take a more integrated approach to the problem by going beyond trafficking into countering money laundering and controlling the sale of precursor chemicals, which criminal gangs use to synthesize drugs earlier in the supply chain to reduce the bulk of trafficked materials. The established link b...
Pervasive drug trafficking is today's prevailing social malady throughout the country, particularly along the border with the U.S. In spite of lengthy declarations by government officials in Mexico City and Washington, and their insistence that important battles are being won against the scourge, criminal organizations like the Tijuana cartel continue to thrive, ruling over whole sections of the Mexican countryside like sectoral feudal lords. The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in Vienna has issued a report stating that Mexican drug trafficking organizations and the criminal groups which control most of the organized drug traffic in the United States, particularly cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines and heroin, have turned in stellar performances.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- A federal magistrate Tuesday set bail at $200,000 for a Yakima man accused of smuggling kilo quantities of cocaine and "transferring" $500,000 in the process. Bernardo Lopez Perez, 35, is one of three men indicted on drug trafficking charges by a federal grand jury last month. The other two men are also in custody.
A Vancouver man is among 11 people facing federal drug charges following a series of police raids on a suspected drug-trafficking organization. Adrian Gonzalez-Pasaye, 35, was indicted on charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorneys office in Portland. If convicted, he faces a mandatory 10 years to life in prison.
BLOOMINGTON - A McLean County jury began deliberations late Thursday on a drug trafficking case - one of the county's largest - against two men accused of bring $200,000 worth of cocaine and heroin into Illinois. A semitrailer truck driven by Moises Torrez, 30, of Missouri was stopped by Illinois State Police May 31 on Interstate 55 near McLean for a safety inspection. A state trooper testified that he was suspicious of entries in a log book found in the truck and the fact that Malaquais Vilchiz, a passenger with a suspended driver's license, was reportedly training the driver.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, July 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On July 14, 2010, a federal grand jury indicted 110 individuals as a result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau (ATF) and the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) - Bayamon Strike Force, announced today U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez-Velez. The defendants are charged in a two-count indictment with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute narcotics and controlled substances. Count two charges 20 defendants with using and carrying firearms during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. The drug trafficking organization is one to the most violent gangs in the Bayamon area. Jose Colon De Jesus, aka "Marcian," was the leader of the conspiracy, whic...
This article examines research on upper level drug traffickers in the U.S., the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands. Included is an analysis and critique of typologies of drug traffickers and theoretical models of organized crime as they apply to upper level drug networks. Studies of higher level drug trafficking indicate that drug markets represent informal and loosely organized associations of relatively small syndicates or crews of independent drug entrepreneurs. They compete for market share and deal primarily or exclusively with trusted associates chosen from ethnic, kinship, and friendship networks. Most dealers are highly cautious, eschew the use of violence, typically make huge profits, attempt to maintain a low profile, rationalize their conduct as business activity, and operate wi...
Fiction: In the film No Country for Old Men (Cohen Brothers, 2007), evil, as represented by Javier Bardem's excellently portrayed drug trafficker-paid hitman, moves implacably through the Chihuahua desert's dusty Texan towns, injuring, killing, destroying, getting what he wants. Good, personified by Tommy Lee Jones' also excellent tired old Sheriff, is impotent against the triumphant march of evil, which he watches, resigned, on the verge of his retirement. Just under a week later, on March 27, the secretaries of governance and national defense, the attorney general of the Republic, and the state governor announced "Operation Chihuahua," sent to address the terrorized population of Ciudad Juarez. This operative's purpose is "localizing, combating, and dismantling the networks of drug tr...
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