Organized Crime

Prosecutors inColombia have issued a warrant for a high-ranking army official who stands accused of leading a ring that sold...

The European Parliament has approved a directive that will make it easier for member states to freeze and confiscate...

By Armando Cordoba The Feb. 22 arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa Federation cartel, has left...

While the United States is increasingly protecting its land borders from drug traffickers with robot technology, coast guard...

Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel and the world’s most-wanted drug lord, was captured...

By Milica Saric It’s a new kind of war. In an effort to stop their neighbors from dying of drug abuse, residents of...

The dismantlement of a United States sex trafficking ring called Operation Dark Night resulted in 23 convictions and the...

A newspaper in Colombia has reported a drugs-for-guns arrangement involving the country's two main guerrilla organizations...

Italian police and the FBI have arrested 17 people in Italy and seven in the United States during an operation that...

On Sunday, Mexican authorities arrested Tirso Martinez Sanchez, an accused drug lord wanted by the US State Department,...

Criminals who buy and sell drugs and human beings are getting better at cooperating with each other across regional borders,...

Around US$540 million was seized in Tuesday’s sting targeting the Zaza clan of the Camorra organized crime group in Italy.