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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Delaware crime: Police seize large stash of heroin | delawareonline.com | The News Journal: "surveillance on 27-year-old Marquis Lopez and followed his blue 2005 Dodge Durango from the Philadelphia airport to the Marsh Road exit off I-95 near Wilmington, police spokesman Master Sgt. Steven Barnes said.The suspect spotted the detectives and immediately got back on northbound I-95, police said. State troopers stopped the Durango for speeding just north of Harvey Road and detectives took Lopez and two other occupants into custody.A police canine detected drugs inside the Durango, and after getting a warrant to search the vehicle, detectives discovered a hidden compartment under the rear seat where they found about 19,500 bags of heroin along with a loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun."
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Immigrant arrested for selling heroin | cincinnati.com | Cincinnati.Com: "Jose Pablo Olivares was arrested Friday by undercover police for allegedly selling heroin in Hamilton County.When police arrested Olivares, they said he attempted to eat two balloons filled with heroin.
In court on Friday, Judge Brad Greenberg ordered that Oliveras be held on a $700,000 bond."
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One Old Vet » Mexican Doctor Smuggles Heroin into the U.S.: "two Mexican nationals — including a physician — were sentenced to U.S. prison terms for smuggling heroin into the U.S. via Arizona. They were arrested in New York City’s Times Square.
Jose David Portillo-Lopez, 39, a medical doctor from Mexico, and Juan Bautista Beltran-Lopez, 38, received 87 and 84 months in prison, respectively.
Here’s the direct account from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix:
“In December 2007, after entering the U.S. near Yuma, Ariz., the pair met with affiliates of a Colombian drug-trafficking organization. Each was given a pair of hiking books whose soles had been modified to conceal over a kilogram of heroin. Beltran-Lopez and Portillo-Lopez then joined with other smugglers to transport the heroin to New York City. DEA agents tracked the defendants’ movement across the country. As the defendants were arriving at their final delivery point — a hotel near Times Square — the agents arrested them and seized the heroin concealed in their footwear.”"
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One Old Vet » Mexican Doctor Smuggles Heroin into the U.S.: "two Mexican nationals — including a physician — were sentenced to U.S. prison terms for smuggling heroin into the U.S. via Arizona. They were arrested in New York City’s Times Square.
Jose David Portillo-Lopez, 39, a medical doctor from Mexico, and Juan Bautista Beltran-Lopez, 38, received 87 and 84 months in prison, respectively.
Here’s the direct account from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix:
“In December 2007, after entering the U.S. near Yuma, Ariz., the pair met with affiliates of a Colombian drug-trafficking organization. Each was given a pair of hiking books whose soles had been modified to conceal over a kilogram of heroin. Beltran-Lopez and Portillo-Lopez then joined with other smugglers to transport the heroin to New York City. DEA agents tracked the defendants’ movement across the country. As the defendants were arriving at their final delivery point — a hotel near Times Square — the agents arrested them and seized the heroin concealed in their footwear.”"
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International - Toronto drug dealer sent to prison - Drugs Forum: "Ricky Trecartin, 28, was sentenced to 135 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William Skretny. Trecartin had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to illegally import controlled substances into the U.S. from Canada.
The case dates back to 2005, when two smugglers were caught by Customs officers on the Rainbow Bridge with more than 6,800 Ecstasy tablets. The smugglers had attempted to bring the drugs into the U.S. by hiding them in their underwear.
Prosecutors charged that Trecartin supplied the tablets to the smugglers during an open air drug deal in a parking lot in the metropolitan Toronto area on Nov. 1, 2005.
Trecartin was not arrested until May 2007 when Customs agents swooped down on him as he was vacationing in Florida with his fiancé."
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andaluz.tv - Webcams, News, Events, Weather: "combined operation between the National Police & the Police of Great Britain and Ireland, has resulted in the dismantling of one of the largest international criminal organizations. The leaders were living on the Costa del Sol, from where they directed their activities of trafficking drugs & arms, and money laundering. At the moment 31 people have been arrested, 17 in Spain, 11 in the UK, and 3 in Ireland. Also 122 searches have been carried out in properties, business premises, lawyer’s offices & establishments in all three countries. In Spain 60 luxury properties have been sealed off, mainly on the Costa del Sol, bank accounts & products have been frozen, and luxury vehicles, firearms and a mountain of documentation has been confiscated."
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Shaming of Prison Guard - Lancaster Today: "Lee Davies, 29, of West Street, Lancaster, faces life on the other side of the cell after he admitted one charge of possessing cannabis with intent to supply and another of possessing cannabis resin with intent to supply.
He also admitted five counts of conveying cannabis, cannabis resin and three mobile phones into prison.
At Preston Crown Court Davies was sentenced to four years in prison.
The prison authorities received information about Davies on July 19 last year.
He was searched the following day when cannabis with a prison value of between £4,000 and £6,500 was found down his underpants along with two mobile phones"
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Colombian ex-model faces drug-smuggling charges in Argentina | La Plaza | Los Angeles Times: "former model and beauty queen from Colombia is claiming her innocence of charges in Argentina that she led a ring of young female models who worked as 'mules' smuggling cocaine on flights to Mexico and Europe. Authorities arrested Angela Sanclemente, 31, last week at a youth hostel in Buenos Aires' Palermo district, where she was staying under an assumed name and told other foreign guests she was from Mexico, where she previously lived, CNN reports.
'They are using my daughter,' her mother, Jeannette Valencia, said outside the hostel. 'My daughter is innocent.'"
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Babies of ‘drug mules’ repatriated from China | Manila Bulletin: "in China have been repatriated to the Philippines, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday.Two infants whose Filipino mothers were caught and convicted for drug-related offenses rs Affairs’ (DFA-OUMWA) Enrico Fos said the babies of drug convicts Rosabeth Villapando and Karren Andojar arrived on Tuesday night from Guangzhou Province, China.
Villapando’s baby is 11 months old while Andojar’s is 14 months old. They were welcomed home by Fos and representatives from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), as well as the babies’ relatives in Manila.
“While their respective mothers remain in detention and could not be helped at the moment, the babies needed to be saved from the horrible experience of being in prison,” Fos said.
Andojar and Villapando are currently serving life imprisonment in China for serving as drug “mules,” or drug smugglers. The women were arrested by Chinese authorities in Youyiguan Port, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in separate occasions on September 26 and 27, 2008"
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Heroin kingpin pleads for mercy at sentencing | recordonline.com: "Christopher Yeagley wept on Wednesday in federal court and begged a judge for mercy.
'I ask you not to look at me as an animal or some monster,' Yeagley told U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas before being sentenced to 19 years and 7 months, 'but as a father, a son, a husband.'
Yeagley was convicted in December 2009 on conspiracy and drug distribution charges. Prosecutors described him as a leader of an organization that flooded Newburgh with glassine envelopes of heroin stamped with insignia.Yeagley's 'Take Two' "
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BBC News - Cancun mayor Gregorio Sanchez faces drugs charges: "mayor of the Mexican resort city of Cancun, Gregorio Sanchez Martinez, has been formally charged with drug-trafficking, money laundering and organised crime.
The charges mean he must give up his campaign to be governor of the state of Quintana Roo.
Prosecutors say there is evidence he protected two of Mexico's biggest drugs gangs and lived well beyond his means.
Mr Sanchez's party, the PRD, says the charges are politically motivated."
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2 Border Patrol stops net more than 500 pounds of pot: "500 pounds of marijuana were seized and three men were arrested in two separate incidents involving the U.S. Border Patrol.
Border agents found 431 pounds of marijuana - with an estimated street value of more than $300,000 - stuffed between hay bales on a tractor-trailer in southern Arizona, said Shaun Kuzia, a public-affairs officer for Border Patrol.
The rig had been taken for secondary inspection Tuesday at a checkpoint on Interstate 8, he said. The driver was arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.
In a separate incident Tuesday afternoon near Arizona's western border, about 144 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $100,000 were found in a vehicle at a checkpoint south of Blythe, Calif., Kuzia said. Two men in the vehicle were arrested, also on suspicion of drug smuggling."
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2 Border Patrol stops net more than 500 pounds of pot: "500 pounds of marijuana were seized and three men were arrested in two separate incidents involving the U.S. Border Patrol.
Border agents found 431 pounds of marijuana - with an estimated street value of more than $300,000 - stuffed between hay bales on a tractor-trailer in southern Arizona, said Shaun Kuzia, a public-affairs officer for Border Patrol.
The rig had been taken for secondary inspection Tuesday at a checkpoint on Interstate 8, he said. The driver was arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.
In a separate incident Tuesday afternoon near Arizona's western border, about 144 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $100,000 were found in a vehicle at a checkpoint south of Blythe, Calif., Kuzia said. Two men in the vehicle were arrested, also on suspicion of drug smuggling."
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2 Border Patrol stops net more than 500 pounds of pot: "500 pounds of marijuana were seized and three men were arrested in two separate incidents involving the U.S. Border Patrol.
Border agents found 431 pounds of marijuana - with an estimated street value of more than $300,000 - stuffed between hay bales on a tractor-trailer in southern Arizona, said Shaun Kuzia, a public-affairs officer for Border Patrol.
The rig had been taken for secondary inspection Tuesday at a checkpoint on Interstate 8, he said. The driver was arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.
In a separate incident Tuesday afternoon near Arizona's western border, about 144 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $100,000 were found in a vehicle at a checkpoint south of Blythe, Calif., Kuzia said. Two men in the vehicle were arrested, also on suspicion of drug smuggling."
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EU - Three €600,000 drug mules nabbed at VIA - Drugs Forum: "Vienna International Airport (VIA) custom officers arrested three drug couriers trying to smuggle illegal substances worth more than half a million Euros inside their bodies.
VIA authorities said today (Fri) the suspects – a 35-year-old Spanish woman, a 25-year-old Spaniard and a 31-year-old man from the USA – arrived individually at VIA on a flight from Spain.
They added the drugs they carried inside their bodies – around 1.7 kilograms of cocaine and 500 grams of heroin – were worth around 600,000 Euros.
Police said they found notes of addresses in Vienna when they searched the drug smugglers who are in custody in Vienna."
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CN BC: Drug Lords Recruit Desperate People: "Sukhvinder Shoker had to do was drive his mover's truck across the Washington-B. C. border a few times and the $42,000 he owed would be forgotten.
Desperate for cash in the midst of a recession, it was an offer the owner of the Surrey-based Careful Movers and Delivery Services found hard to refuse.
After a dry run the month before to test out the truck's newly installed hidden wall, the Surrey man headed to California for the real thing.
It would be Shoker's first and last trip as a drug mule.
His arrest by U.S. border agents last October for trying to smuggle 76 kilograms of cocaine into Canada through the Pacific Highway crossing earmarks yet another dark chapter in B.C.'s high-risk drug game."
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Brazilian football star in court to counter alleged drug-gang ties - CNN.com: "preliminary hearing, Rio de Janeiro state prosecutor Alexandre Themistocles interrogated the stand-out striker, who goes by only one name as do many Brazilian footballers, over his alleged relationship with Fabiano Atanasio da Silva, one of Brazil's most wanted drug suspects.
According to law enforcement agencies in Rio de Janeiro, da Silvia is a drug kingpin who rules many of Rio's slum neighborhoods with an iron fist.
Investigations against Adriano were launched after Rio de Janeiro's O Dia newspaper published photos of the footballer posing with da Silva while making a hand gesture that is commonly known to represent a drug gang known as Commando Vermelho, or the Red Command."
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3 Drug Mules Arrested at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport | Pattaya Daily News - Pattaya Newspaper, Powerful news at your fingertips: "Thai Customs officers working at Suvarnabhumi Airport were also able to arrest, Mr.fli Qaisar Afzal Nadeem [34] a Pakistani national traveling from Lahore on board a Thai Airways International flight. The man was subsequently searched after appearing suspicious and found to have ingested over 800g of the illegal class-1 narcotic heroin, with a street value of approximately Bt2.4 million.
All three offenders are thought to have trafficked the illegal narcotics into the kingdom with the intention of selling the drugs within the country. The trio have now been arrested and will remain in police custody awaiting further judicial proceedings to commence.
Thailand’s Narcotics Control Board (NCB) has revealed that an increase in transnational narcotics trafficking syndicates have been investigated passing into and through Thailand over the last few months. Political uncertainty and the continuation of the current global economic depression has forced many Thai’s and foreigners into desperate measures, with Thailand often observed as a viable option to support the illegal business."
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Drugs in Starr County Jail came from guard, deputies say | county, starr, jail - Now - TheMonitor.com: "Undercover agents discovered that a jail employee, Jose Luis Garza, 19, of Rio Grande City, was buying illegal contraband and smuggling it into the Starr County Jail.
Garza was arrested on Wednesday and charged with bribery, a second-degree felony. He is facing between two and 20 years in prison and fines up to $10,000.
Sheriff Rene Fuentes said Garza was bringing a very small amount of contraband into the facility.
“Regardless, though, it’s wrong,” Fuentes said."
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Deputies: Charlotte jail inmate sold heroin hidden inside her body | HeraldTribune.com: "Katrina Wade managed to keep her suspected drug business booming from a jail cell, reportedly selling bags of heroin that had been hidden inside her vagina to other Charlotte County Jail inmates.Sheriff's deputies said Wade did not have a body cavity search when she was recently brought to the jail, even though the arresting detective was told she had stashed up to 100 bags of drugs in her groin area."
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U.S. Charges Nine With Attempting to Build Drug Smuggling Route to Europe Via Liberia - WSJ.com: "charged were Chigbo Umeh of Nigeria, Konstantin Yaroshenko of Russia, Jorge Salazar Castaño of Colombia, and Nathaniel French and Kudufia Mawuko of Ghana. All the defendants except Mr. Salazar Castaño pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.
According to U.S. prosecutors, Mr. Umeh was the broker who assisted various trafficking groups, while Mr. Salazar Castaño was the supply coordinator based in Colombia and Spain, and Mr. Yaroshenko was a pilot and air-transport expert. Messrs. French and Mawuko provided logistics to help maritime drug shipments, prosecutors said.
In a May 2009 meeting, recorded by the DEA, Messrs. Umeh and Salazar Castaño discussed paying Mr. Sirleaf and his deputy $400,000 to ensure safe passage of about 700 kilograms (about 1,500 pounds) of cocaine from South America to Liberia, according to the indictments. The men said they previously had sent 900 kilos of cocaine into nearby Guinea-Bissau."
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Another Outlaws player faces cocaine charges: "Billings Outlaws player Nolan Arthur Fisher denied federal cocaine trafficking charges Tuesday after being arrested earlier in the day.
Fisher, 25, an offensive lineman for the indoor professional football team, is the fifth Outlaws player to be connected to a cocaine conspiracy in which 10 others, including four former players, have been convicted. The main local suppler, former Outlaws player Shon Flores, who was sentenced to more than six years in prison, admitted he helped bring about 20 pounds of the drug to Billings from Salt Lake City for redistribution."
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Gun, cocaine found in airport suitcase
By Stabroek staff | May 31, 2010 in Local News -two passengers held
Two outgoing LIAT passengers and three other persons were arrested after a gun, ammunition and more than a kilogramme of cocaine were discovered in their luggage.
Special Constables manning the baggage scanner at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri at about 10.25 am yesterday conducted a search on a “checked-in suitcase”. They discovered a .44 Magnum revolver with 15 rounds and 1 kilogramme 109 grammes of cocaine concealed in the baggage."
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5 Filipino drug mules caught in Thailand - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos: "Thai authorities have recently arrested five Filipinos who were carrying illegal drugs in four separate occasions from March to May this year, the Philippine embassy in Bangkok said.
This prompted the embassy to issue a strong warning to Filipinos against accepting and carrying packages or items to Thailand from complete strangers or new acquaintances in exchange for money. It said Thai law metes out the death penalty to people carrying what it calls Category I narcotics like heroin 'for the purpose of disposal.'
On March 22, April 13, and May 4, at the Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thai immigration and police authorities arrested three Filipinas carrying between two to five kilograms of cocaine. Two came from Peru, while one arrived from Brazil."
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9&10 News - Canadians in drug-smuggling case due in court: "Matthew Moody and Jesse Rusenstrom met the Cessna at the Sandusky, Mich., airport in November. A border agent flying a Black Hawk helicopter was suspicious and used a spotlight to keep track of their SUV.
Agents recovered at least 100 pounds of marijuana and possibly 500,000 ecstasy tablets worth $1 million to $2 million."
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