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SAN FRANCISCO City is sued for failing to report noncitizens arrested for drugs Activist contends police are breaking California law Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, May 11, 2007 A San Francisco illegal immigration opponent has sued the city's police chief and police commissioners for failing to comply with a state law that requires officers to tell federal authorities about all suspected noncitizens who are arrested on drug charges. Charles Fonseca, a 70-year-old Portola district resident who came to the United States from Nicaragua at the age of 9 and filed the lawsuit May 4, said he opposes amnesty for...

RALEIGH (AP) — A Mexican native jailed on a drug charge was offered a plea deal because a Raleigh-based federal drug agent made him wear a sombrero and hold a Mexican flag for a photo. Jorge Hernandez-Villalvazo, a native of Mexico with a permanent U-S residency, was arrested in April 2005 on a charge of conspiring to traffic cocaine. The photo from that year shows him wearing a sombrero and holding the flag. When it surfaced during a pretrial hearing last week, prosecutors offered a plea deal that avoided a trial and freed Hernandez-Villalvazo from the Wake County Jail, where...

PANAMA CITY, Panama Mar 19, 2007 (AP)— Panamanian police seized a boat off the nation's Pacific coast carrying 21.4 tons of cocaine in one of the biggest maritime cocaine busts anywhere on record, officials said Monday. National police working with agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency seized the boat on Sunday near the island of Coiba, said a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. Police arrested 12 men on the boat, including Mexicans and Panamanians, and another two suspects in Panama City in connection with the drugs,...