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Drug Bust Uncovers 1,800-Foot Tunnel

25-ton seizure is one of the largest in San Diego history

(Newser) - US officials seized more than 25 tons of marijuana from drug warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana after finding a 1,800-foot tunnel linking the two. The lighted, ventilated tunnel—which is about six football fields long—was discovered after officials found 10 tons of marijuana in a suspicious tractor-trailer,...

Kidnapped Tourists Found in Mexican Mass Grave

YouTube video leads police to 18 bodies

(Newser) - Investigators believe 18 bodies found in a mass grave near Acapulco are members of a group of Mexican tourists kidnapped a month ago . Police were led to the mass grave by a video posted on YouTube, in which two men answering questions from an unseen interrogator say they killed the...

4 Americans Shot Dead in Mexico

US citizens killed in another bloody weekend for border city

(Newser) - Four American citizens were killed in three separate shooting incidents over the weekend in Ciudad Juarez, Mexican officials say. A 24-year-old El Paso resident was shot dead in a tortilla store; a 26-year-old woman and 15-year-old boy were killed as they crossed an international bridge from El Paso; and a...

Greeks Nab Parcel Bomb Addressed to Sarkozy

Others addressed to various embassies; no al-Qaeda link seen

(Newser) - Greek police have intercepted several packages containing “explosive devices,” one of which was addressed to Nicolas Sarkozy, Reuters reports. One, addressed to the Mexican embassy, exploded at an Athens courier firm, slightly wounding an employee. Others addressed to the Dutch and Belgian embassies were detonated by police. Two...

Mexican Police Force Quits After Cartel Attack

Town's entire force flees as gunmen attack new station

(Newser) - The entire police force of a small Mexican town rapidly decided police work wasn't for them after cartel gunmen attacked their new headquarters. All 15 members of the force in Los Ramones, on the outskirts of Monterrey, resigned and fled in terror as gunmen attacked the building—inaugurated just three...

15 Killed in Mexico Car Wash Massacre
 15 Killed in Car Wash Massacre 
Oct 28, 2010 2:44 AM CDT

15 Killed in Car Wash Massacre

Most victims were drug rehab center clients

(Newser) - Suspected drug cartel gunmen opened fire at a car wash in Tepic, western Mexico, killing 15 people in the violence-wracked nation's third massacre in less than a week. Ten of the victims are believed to have been clients of a drug treatment center, the New York Times reports. Thirteen people...

13 Youths Dead in Juarez Party Massacre

Second party attack in a week in violent border city

(Newser) - At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on a house party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent border city. Gunmen in three cars drove up to the home around 11pm yesterday and began shooting,...

College Student New Top Cop in Mexican Crime Town

Criminology major hailed as Mexico's bravest woman

(Newser) - Police chiefs in Mexico are kidnapped and murdered with sickening regularity, so who would want to become one in one of the country's most dangerous towns? Step forward, Marisol Valles Garcia. The 20-year-old university criminology student was the only applicant for police chief in the northern Mexican town of Praxedis...

105-Ton Pot Cache Seized in Mexico

Tijuana raids net huge stash, some in Homer Simpson packaging

(Newser) - Mexican authorities have made the biggest marijuana bust in years. Some 10,000 packages of pot weighing a total of 105 tons—some of it wrapped in Homer Simpson packaging—were seized in pre-dawn raids in Tijuana, the BBC reports. Gangs had been planning to smuggle the dope into the...

Mistaken Identity Blamed in Murder of US Jet Skier

New theory says Mexican gang thought he was drug runner

(Newser) - A missing US tourist may have been gunned down while jet-skiing because a Mexican drug gang thought he was part of a rival gang. That's the conclusion of a public policy research group—expert on Mexico's drug world—that looked into the case of David Hartley , reports AP . His wife,...

Investigator in Case of Missing US Jet Skier Is Beheaded

Mexican authorities say delivery of severed head 'unrelated'

(Newser) - A Mexican police commander investigating the disappearance of an American jet skier has been beheaded, MSNBC reports. The head of Commander Rolando Flores was delivered to a police station in the border city of Ciudad Miguel Aleman. Though Flores had just provided information about gang members thought to be involved...

Hundreds Feared Dead in Mexican Landslide

Hillside collapses on rural village in middle of night

(Newser) - A Mexican hillside collapsed on a rural Oaxaca village early today after days of rain, and the state's governor says hundreds are feared dead. The landslide buried between 100 and 300 homes in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, reports the AP, and the weather is thwarting would-be rescuers. "There has...

US Grants Asylum to Mexican Journalist

Jorge Luis Aguirre got death threat in 2008

(Newser) - A Mexican journalist who was the target of death threats like those made by drug cartels says he has been granted asylum in the US in a case believed to be the first of its kind since the country's bloody drug war began. Death threats are at the heart of...

7 Killed in Acapulco Shootout
 7 Killed in Acapulco Shootout 
Sep 24, 2010 5:24 AM CDT

7 Killed in Acapulco Shootout

Mob justice on the rise amid relentless cartel violence

(Newser) - At least seven people were killed in Acapulco yesterday in what police believe was a clash between rival drug gangs. Guns and grenades were used to attack a house in a residential part of the resort city, AP reports. Further north, suspected cartel hitmen killed the mayor of a small...

After Slayings, Mexico Paper Appeals to Drug Cartels

'Tell us what to publish,' says Juarez newspaper

(Newser) - In a sad sign of how bad things have gotten in Mexico, the biggest newspaper in Ciudad Juarez is asking the drug cartels to basically dictate what the paper covers. After two of its journalists were murdered in less than two years, El Diario de Juarez ran a front-page editorial...

Mexico Subdued on 200th Birthday

Drug violence overshadows celebrations

(Newser) - At midnight, Mexico marked 200 years since the start of the rebellion that won it independence from Spain, but much of the country isn't in the mood for a fiesta. The war between the government and drug cartels has claimed 28,000 lives since 2006, and public festivities have been...

Mexico Busts Cartel Boss
 Mexico Busts Cartel Boss 

Sep 13, 2010 2:45 AM CDT

Mexico Busts Cartel Boss

Alleged Kingpin one of Mexico's most wanted

(Newser) - More bad news for Mexico's Beltrán Leyva drug cartel: Police yesterday busted one of its top men, Sergio Villarreal Barragan, 40, known as "El Grande" or "King Kong." His capture is the latest in a string of blows against the group, including the death , in a...

25 Slain in Mexico; 85 Inmates Escape

Ciudad Juarez's deadliest day, biggest jail break in years

(Newser) - Gunmen killed 25 people in a series of drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez yesterday, marking the deadliest day in more than two years for the Mexican border city. Farther east on the border, 85 inmates scaled the walls of a prison and escaped Friday in Mexico's biggest jail break in...

Obama Takes Back Clinton's Comments on Mexico

Hillary called drug war an 'insurgency'

(Newser) - President Obama took Hillary Clinton’s foot out of the administration’s mouth yesterday, taking back her comments that likened Mexico to the Colombia of the ‘80s and ‘90s. “Mexico is an ample democracy, with a growing economy,” Obama said in an interview with the Spanish-language...

Mexican Mayor Shot Dead at Desk

Clinton: Drug violence becoming an 'insurgency'

(Newser) - The mayor of a small Mexican town in an area being fought over by drug cartels was shot dead in his office yesterday. Four hooded gunmen stepped out of a truck at city hall in broad daylight and killed Alexander Garcia, CNN reports. Garcia is the third mayor to be...

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