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TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas governor chose a high-ranking U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official Friday to head the state highway patrol, replacing a retiring superintendent who is facing federal lawsuits over the agency’s policing and allegations that he sexually harassed female employees. Until Smith can take over as superintendent July 7, patrol Lt. Col. Jason DeVore, who also was named …

Why Ovidio Guzman is One of Mexico's Most Wanted Men

Mexican security forces on Thursday arrested cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, son of incarcerated kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the country’s defense minister said. Guzman, known by nickname “The Mouse,” became a high-level leader in the Sinaloa Cartel after his father’s arrest in 2016 and extradition in 2017. The State Department said Guzman oversees methamphetamine labs in Sinaloa responsible for producing …

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Three men found dead in downtown L.A. after ingesting fentanyl, police say

A crime scene investigator at the scene of a downtown Los Angeles apartment complex where three men were found dead from a fentanyl overdose Thursday morning. Three men were found dead in a downtown Los Angeles apartment early Thursday after ingesting fentanyl, the latest instance in what officials say is a nationwide epidemic of overdoses and deaths related to the …

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NEW YORK — Four men associated with a Japan-based crime syndicate known as “yakuza” have been charged with trying to negotiate a deal to exchange high-powered weapons for drugs with an undercover U.S. agent, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Prosecutors said the DEA agent infiltrated the organization by posing as an arms dealer eager to trade surface-to-air missiles — presumably meant …

Haiti assassination plot: A radio call with one of the men accused of involvement

Several tied to Haiti assassination plot were previously US law enforcement informants

CNN — Several of the men involved in the assassination of Haiti’s President previously worked as US law enforcement informants, according to people briefed on the matter, as US investigators grapple with an increasing number of Florida links to the alleged hit squad. “At times, one of the suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise was a confidential …

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti CNN — Two US citizens are among more than a dozen arrested in Haiti in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a top government official said Thursday. Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, described suspects as foreign “mercenaries” and said he believed they had received assistance from Haitian nationals, but officials have divulged few …

A group of drug dealers intent on recovering 50 kilograms of cocaine kidnapped an associate’s grandparents from their home in northern New York, ferried them across the Canadian border through a tribal reservation, and held them hostage for two nights until police staged a rescue, U.S. authorities said. Four men from Quebec and one from Plattsburgh, New York, face charges …

Relatives of victims wait in anguish for news after a shooting July 1 at a drug rehabilitation center in Irapuato, Mexico. “El Marro, being the arrogant person that he is, figured that he was just as powerful as El Mencho,” said Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. El Marro “is no longer in …