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Mexican Convicted of Murdering Border Patrol Agent

SAN DIEGO - Jesus Navarro eluded U.S. authorities even before he became the prime suspect in the 2008 killing of a Border Patrol agent. Their long efforts to get the Mexican man convicted in a U.S. court paid off Tuesday when a federal jury deliberated only two hours to find him guilty of murdering Border Patrol Agent...

Clinton: US Ambassador to Mexico Has Resigned

WASHINGTON --U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual, who criticized his host government's handling of the drug problem in a cable divulged by the WikiLeaks website, has resigned, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday. President Felipe Calderon, who met earlier this month with Obama at the White House,...

Immigration Officials Announce New Gang Arrests

WASHINGTON -- Immigration agents have arrested more than 600 gang members with ties to drug smugglers in the past three months, the largest such roundup since 1965, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday. ICE agents, working with state and local authorities in 168 cities, made 678 arrests from December to...

Six Dead, 37 Injured in Attack on Mexican Nightclub

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Armed men opened fire and hurled a grenade into a crowded nightclub early Saturday, killing six people and wounding at least 37 in a western city whose former tranquility has been shattered by escalating battles among drug cartels. The attack in Mexico's second-largest municipality took place just...

Drug Catapult and 3 Other Drug-Smuggling Fails [VIDEO]

We have to give them points for trying. With the U.S.-Mexico border under close watch, some innovative -- if not entirely practical -- drug smugglers hit on a not-so-bright idea: using a giant catapult to fling the illegal goods into the States. The intrepid plan was foiled when the device was discovered by Mexican...

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PepsiCo's Mexico snack subsidiary attacked again

MORELIA, Mexico -Banners signed by a cult-like Mexican drug gang say that cartel members launched firebombing attacks on a PepsiCo. subsidiary because they believe the snack company let law-enforcement agents use its trucks for surveillance.

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R. Gil Kerlikowske: Veterans Treatment Courts: Providing Our Nation's Heroes the Support They Have Earned

The Obama Administration is committed to the health and well-being of our armed forces, including support for the physical and mental health needs of service members and their families.

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Snow White and the Huntsman, High School, The Loved Ones: Wetpaint Entertainment's Sexy-Not Sexy Weekend Movie Guide, 6/1

The day after he decides to smoke marijuana for the first time, his school principal announces a campus-wide drug test, promising to expel any student who fails.

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Bali Drug Arrests: Rachel Dougall Taken To Hospital, Reports Say

A British woman being held over a Â£1.6 million cocaine haul in Indonesia has been taken to hospital, according to reports.

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Drug Ring Busted In Philadelphia, District Attorney's Office Reports

On Wednesday, Philadelphia District Attorney's Dangerous Drug Offenders Unit announced they broke up a multimillion-dollar drug ring that trafficked cocaine into the city from New York. Authorities seized 28 kilos of cocaine with a street value of close to $3.3 million, as well as 16 vehicles, 11 properties and 5 guns in...

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06/01/12 Sheriff: Ark. Bust a Small Fraction of I-40 Drug... Source: ABC/CW - WPTY 24/WLMT 30 - Memphis TN A lead foot and pounds of marijuana all spelled trouble for a man and woman from San Antonio busted for trafficking drugs in Arkansas.
06/01/12 DEA investigating Honduras drug raid shooting Source: WTOP Radio - Washington DC State Department officials say the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has opened an investigation into a drug raid in a remote Central American jungle where local authorities say four people were killed.
06/01/12 Three charged with drug possession in W.Va. Source: The Herald-Mail - Hagerstown MD Three people were charged with drug possession after police conducted two separate narcotics raids Friday in Martinsburg, W.Va., Martinsburg police said.
06/01/12 Reedsburg man held in drug bust Source: Reedsburg Times Press - Reedsburg WI Ten people, including a Reedsburg man, were arrested Thursday in a drug bust in the town of Marion, Juneau County Sheriff Brent Oleson said Friday afternoon.
06/01/12 Mo. woman sentenced for illegal vehicle sales Source: NBC - WGEM 10 - Quincy IL A northwest Missouri vehicle broker been sentenced to five years' probation for her role in the illegal sales and export of hundreds vehicles abroad.

Background on drug control law

Drug prohibition law is prohibition-based law by which governments prohibit, except under licence, the production, supply, and possession of many, but not all, substances which are recognised as drugs, and which corresponds to international treaty commitments in the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971, and the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988.

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