A wanted fugitive was returned to the United States yesterday after nine years on the run. Agents from the FBI’s Seattle Division escorted Gabriel Nevarez, 28, formerly of Tacoma, Washington, back from Mexico to face state charges of murder in the first degree, assault in the first degree, and unlawful possession of a firearm in […]
Drug lord and head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin Guzman, also known as “El Chapo,” has escaped from prison for a second time in Mexico, this time from the high-security Altiplano prison fifty miles outside of Mexico City. The incarcerated Guzman made good his escape through a mile-long tunnel that connected to the prison’s […]
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 2014 — Criminals are smuggling an estimated $30 billion in U.S. currency into Mexico each year from the United States, but help could be on the way for border guards, researchers will report here today. The answer to the problem: a portable device that identifies specific vapors given off by U.S. […]
Senator Lisa Murkowski last week questioned a number of Cabinet officials about the crisis at the U.S./Mexico border – as tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors are entering the U.S. from Central America – asking why they waited for the slow-motion migration to reach “emergency” status to seek a $3.7 billion increase in funding to […]