Top Ten Cities for arresting Americans
The top 10 cities where Americans were arrested and the number taken into custody:
1. Tijuana: 520
2. Guadalajara: 416
3. Nuevo Laredo: 359
4. London: 274
5. Mexico City: 208
6. Toronto: 183
7. Nassau, Bahamas: 108
8. Mérida, Mexico: 99
9. Nogales, Mexico: 96
10. Hong Kong: 90
2,500 citizens are arrested abroad. One third of the arrests are on drug-related charges. Many of those arrested assumed as U.S. citizens that they could not be arrested. From Asia to Africa, Europe to South America, citizens are finding out the hard way that drug possession or trafficking equals jail in foreign countries.Disclaimer: The statements and articles listed here, and any opinions, are those of the writers alone, and neither are opinions of nor reflect the views of this Blog. Aggregated content created by others is the sole responsibility of the writers and its accuracy and completeness are not endorsed or guaranteed. This goes for all those links, too: Blogs have no control over the information you access via such links, does not endorse that information, cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information provided or any analysis based thereon, and shall not be responsible for it or for the consequences of your use of that information.
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A court in the Black Sea city of Burgas convicted Dimitar Zheliazkov and 11 members of his gang after they pleaded guilty to charges of founding an organised armed group for drug trafficking, a court spokeswoman said. Bulgaria's most notorious crime bosses, nicknamed "The Eyes", has been jailed for for drug trafficking.
"For the first time such a key figure from the Bulgarian criminal world has been convicted. This has not happened so far," prosecutor Svetlozar Kostov said on national radio.
Last week, Zheliazkov, 32, and the other 11 men reached an out-of-court agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to the charges. The 11 were jailed for one to five years.
Zheliazkov was sentenced to 4-½ years.
Commentators criticised prosecutors for not seeking the maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.
Zheliazkov had been arrested several times before but prosecutors could not build a successful case against him.
The European Union, which Bulgaria joined in 2007, and the United States have repeatedly urged Sofia to end a climate of impunity and demonstrate the political will to fight crime.
The Balkan country has failed to jail a single criminal for any of 151 gangland killings since 2000.
Crime groups' profits from trade in drugs, stolen cars and trafficking of women are estimated at up to €2.2 billion ($3.66 billion) a year, a report by an independent Bulgarian anti-graft organisation showed last month.
The report by the Centre for the Study of Democracy said organised crime groups were "buying" politicians, magistrates and civil servants to legalise businesses and extend control over lucrative markets.
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Plovdiv Appelative Court has prolonged the arrest of Serbian Budimir Kujović on January 9.
The court maintained the earlier ruling of arrest for Kujović imposed by the court of first instance in Stara Zagora.
The ruling is definite and not subject to appeals, mediapool.bg said.
Kujović was arrested on December 30 2007 in a police action in Plovdiv, following the capture of 60 kg of heroin at the Bulgarian Kapitan Andreevo border crossing the day before.
Kujović has been accused of leading the organisation of a criminal group, of having helped Nikolai Piskov, Michail Yankov and Stoiko Doichev in an attempt to smuggle close to 60 kg of heroin across the border and to have helped Piskov in the actual transport of the 60 kg heroin.
If found guilty, he could be sentenced to between 20 and 30 years in jail plus a fine of between 200 000 and 300 000 leva.
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Budimir Kujovic appeals Thursday before the Bulgarian court of appeal in the city of Plovdiv against his arrest.
The trial will be closed for media and security measures will be very tight, authorities told reporters.
Serbian national Kujovic was arrested on December 30 on suspicions of masterminding a drug smuggling channel after Bulgarian customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border check point with Turkey seized 60 kilograms of heroin.
The arrest caused a scandal that jolted Bulgaria's Interior Ministry, which had issued Kujovic a Bulgarian passport although he had a 10-year ban to enter the country.
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Budimir Kujovich, has been issued a Bulgarian passport despite being banned to enter the country.
"It is absolutely abnormal to issue a Bulgarian passport to a Serbian national, whom we claim to be a drug-trafficking boss," senior prosecutor Boris Velchev fumed on Wednesday in his first comment on the controversy.
"This way Bulgaria granted free access to Kujovich to the whole European Union," Velchev added.
Kujovich was issued a Bulgarian passport as part of a secret police operation, in which four tons of heroin were supposed to be seized in Bulgaria on their way towards Western Europe.
Interior Ministry Secretary General Ilia Iliev, who allowed issuing the passport, submitted his resignation at the end of November after months of waiting in vain for the heroin to cross the border.
Iliev then explained that he quits because he was tricked into signing a document, which breaches the regulations of the Interior Ministry.
A month later, Bulgarian customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border check point with Turkey seized 60 kilograms of heroin and police arrested Kujovic as the alleged boss of the traffickers.
After the arrest, Iliev finally revealed details about the operation and the tons of heroin, saying that the breaking of a channel for drug smuggling was after all successful.
After the scandal with the fake passport was unveiled, Interior Minister Rumen Petkov announced the case will be thoroughly checked and those officials who overstepped the law will be sanctioned.
Deputy director of the police in the town of Razgrad, Todor Dimov was dismissed for exceeding his rights in relation to the case. Claims that he was just a scapegoat in the scandal appeared in the media..
Kujovich was imposed a 10-year ban to enter Bulgaria in 2005 after being accused of running
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Police seized 47 kilos of heroin at the Bulgaria - Macedonia border from the car of a Turkish national. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova
Bulgarian customs officers at the Gueshevo border checkpoint with Macedonia seized Saturday 47 kilograms of heroin.
During a check officials found 80 packages of the drug, hidden in a secret compartment in the roof of a car, which was driven by a 50-year-old Turkish national.
The suspect was traveling from Turkey to Albania.
According to preliminary estimates, the seized heroin costs more than EUR 6 M.
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Bulgarian police arrested four people and seized 60 kilograms (132 pounds) of heroin found hidden in a car at a border crossing, authorities said yesterday. The drugs, stashed in 116 packages, were found early yesterday in a secret compartment in the floor of a Bulgarian car crossing the border from Turkey, customs said in a statement. Police arrested the 41-year-old Bulgarian driver and three passengers, who included a customs official that police believe organized the smuggling operation. A Serb national, allegedly the head of the group, was also arrested in the southern city of Stara Zagora, police said yesterday. (AP)
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The leader of the gang, Serbian citizen Budimir Kujović, considered a major drug trafficker in the Balkans. He was said to have been involved in several drug laboratories and trafficking rings arrested in Bulgaria aged 39, was detained on December 30 in Plovdiv. He resisted arrest and a policeman was injured in the fight.
custom officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint at the Bulgarian-Turkish border, found 59.35kg of high quality heroin in the floor of a vehicle stopped for a check, an Interior Ministry media statement said.During an operation on December 29 and 30 2007, police in Bulgaria arrested a drug trafficking ring from Turkey through Bulgaria to former Yugoslavia and Western Europe.Stara Zagora deputy regional prosecutor Dicho Atanasov said the gang had been neutralised and its members were detained. The group included three Bulgarians, aged between 41 and 53. One of the Bulgarians was a former custom officer, who provided unimpeded border crossing of the deliveries.Police seized various identity documents from the arrested.
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Serbian drug boss Budimir Kujovic was transported under closed guard to the building of the District Police Directorate in the town of Stara Zagora. Kujovic is under the escort of six heavily armed police officers.
Bulgarian customs officers at the Kapitan Andreevo border check point with Turkey seized 60 kilograms of heroin on Sunday.
During a special operation officials found 116 packages of the drug, hidden in a secret compartment in the floor of a car, driven by a 41-year-old Bulgarian national.
The other three passengers, among them a 30-year-old woman and a customs official, were all arrested together with the driver.
According to the police, the customs officer, traveling in the car, was taking care of the unimpeded border crossing of the traffickers.
Serbian national Budimir Kuyovitch, who is the alleged boss of the group, was also arrested in the southeastern town of Stara Zagora.
Experts said that the heroin was supposed to reach Western Europe.
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Bulgarian customs officers and police and Portuguese police arrested two Bulgarian cocaine smugglers at Lisbon airport during a joint operation.
Portuguese police detained a 38-year-old man who organised the international drug-smuggling ring from Latin America to Western Europe, and a 30-year-old drug dealer, an Interior Ministry press release said.
The dealer traveled from Brazil to Portugal. He had swallowed 1.2 kg of capsuled cocaine.
Drug dealers who swallow capsules to smuggle the drug, usually intake from 0.6 to 0.8 kg of narcotic substance, the press release said.
Bulgarian and Portuguese authorities worked nearly four months to reveal the smuggling ring. The arrest of the two Bulgarians was the last of a series of related arrests.
Bulgarian police detained two men, who had swallowed 1.2 kg of cocaine, at Sofia airport in November 2006. Other two Bulgarian traffickers were arrested at Lisbon airport a week later, on December 8 2006.
The total quantity of cocaine seized from the related operations is 4,4 kg. The drug could have been sold for more than 180 000 euro on European markets.
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