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After six months on the run, Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo, was captured on Friday by Mexican forces aided by their US counterparts. The operation, of its code name “Operation Black Swan” had been monitoring the house in which the fugitive was hiding out in for …

WASHINGTON — Back in 1995, a federal grand jury in San Diego charged a little-known Mexican drug trafficker named Joaquín Guzmán Loera and 22 underlings with creating a cocaine ring that stretched from Southern California to New Jersey. Over the next two decades, as Mr. Guzmán’s infamy grew, he became …

The Mexican girlfriend of missing Australian surfer Adam Coleman has told Mexican television that “In my heart I will get justice for them. I will.” Mr. Coleman and his friend Dean Lucas were driving through rural Sinaloa state when they went missing last month. Their burnt-out van was found with …

A second patient died in a late-stage trial of Zafgen Inc.’s experimental obesity treatment, the company said in a statement Wednesday. As a result, the company lost more than half its value. The company said that the patient receiving the drug died from a blockage in an artery in the …

The Penn Station shooting in downtown New York occurred Monday morning November 9, 2015.   The three men who knew each other had been receiving methadone treatment for their addiction from the nearby West Midtown Medical group organization for years. The three met for a casual meeting at McDonald’s, but …

Roughly three in five Americans now take prescription drugs, from antidepressants to high cholesterol treatments. That number has risen 8 percent from 1999 to 2011, according to a new study. The lead author of the study, Elizabeth D. Kantor of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said that …

Drug smuggling has always been an intense and sophisticated process. However, officials were suprised at the new techniques and technologies that are being incorporated into drug smuggling today. A drug “super tunnel” the length of eight football fields was raided by authorities, and what they found was shocking. The tunnel …

Another shooting at the hands of law enforcement officers leaves another teenager dead. On Sunday night in Columbia, South Carolina, a teenager was shot and killed during an undercover sting operation. Zachary Hammond, 19, was killed after being shot through an open car window by an officer involved in the …

Notorious drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera is currently a fugitive as Mexican authorities hunt for him after he broke out of Altiplano Federal Prison on Saturday. Authorities believe he escaped through a hole in his cell that led to a lighted and ventilated tunnel that was about a …

Serge Atlaoui, a citizen of France, has had his death sentence upheld in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Administrative Court rejected Atlaoui’s appeal today against the death penalty that was imposed on him in 2007 after his life sentence given to him in 2005 was amended by the Indonesian Supreme Court. So …