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  • Mexico transfers 26 cartel figures wanted by US authoriies in deal with Trump administration

    08/12/2025 9:01:03 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 37 replies
    AP News. ^ | Updated 7:59 PM CDT, August 12, 2025 | ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MARÍA VERZA
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Mexico sent 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States Tuesday in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks smuggling drugs across the border. Those handed over to U.S. custody include Abigael González Valencia, a leader of “Los Cuinis,” a group closely aligned with notorious cartel Jalisco New Generation or CJNG. Another defendant, Roberto Salazar, is wanted in connection to the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy. Other prominent figures have ties to the Sinaloa Cartel and other violent drug trafficking groups. The transfers...
  • US angry over release of Mexican drug lord

    08/10/2013 7:59:40 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 8 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Aug. 10, 2013 10:41 AM EDT | Adriana Gomez Licon and Mark Stevenson
    U.S. law enforcement officials expressed outrage over the release from prison of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and vowed to continue efforts to bring to justice the man who ordered the killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Caro Quintero was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of DEA agent Enrique Camarena, but a Mexican federal court ordered his release this week, saying he had been improperly tried in a federal court for state crimes. The 60-year-old walked out of a prison in the western state of Jalisco early Friday after serving...