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Inmate in Grady County jail with ties to motorcycle gang dies
Updated: Fri, May 18, 2012
Anthony Mollman, 46, who pleaded guilty last year to trafficking drugs for a motorcycle gang, died Thursday night after collapsing in his Grady County jail cell. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is looking into his death. Read More
Oklahoma City officers find 23 kilos of cocaine during Interstate 40 traffic stop
Updated: Thu, May 10, 2012
Two men were arrested after police found 23 kilos of cocaine in a tractor-trailer during a traffic stop. Officers stopped the vehicle in Oklahoma City April 25 and were given consent to search the vehicle. Read More
Gunmen dump 35 bodies under overpass in Veracruz
Updated: Wed, Sep 21, 2011
MEXICO CITY — Suspected drug traffickers dumped 35 bodies at rush hour beneath a busy overpass in the heart of a major Gulf coast city as gunmen pointed weapons at frightened drivers. Mexican authorities said Wednesday they are examining surveillance video for clues to who committed the crime.
Horrified... Read More
14 decapitated bodies found in Mexico resort city
Updated: Sat, Jan 8, 2011
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Police found the bodies of 15 slain men, 14 of them headless, on a street outside a shopping center in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Saturday. Police in the southern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said handwritten signs were left with the bodies, a common calling... Read More
Gunmen burst into factory in Honduras, kill 15
Published: Tue, Sep 7, 2010
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran authorities said. National police spokesman Leonel Sauceda called the attack in the northern city of San Pedro Sula "a massacre." He said the... Read More
OKLAHOMA’S NO. 1 THREAT - CARTEL CONNECTION DRUGS
Published: Sat, May 16, 2009
Editor's Note: This story, which first ran in The Oklahoman in late April, sheds light on the violent and shadowy underworld of the Mexican drug cartels in Oklahoma. In order to tell the most accurate story, The Oklahoman has relied on a variety of state and federal court records, as well as the eyewitness accounts... Read More
Mexican drug cartels are Oklahoma's most dangerous threat
Updated: Tue, Apr 28, 2009
Editor's Note: The following article sheds light on the violent and shadowy underworld of the Mexican drug cartels in Oklahoma. In order to tell the most accurate story, The Oklahoman has relied on a variety of state and federal court records, as well as the eyewitness accounts of two undercover agents with the... Read More
Incidents of drug cartel related violence in Mexican cities
Updated: Tue, Apr 28, 2009
Nuevo Laredo — Roberto Javier Mora, 43, was stabbed to death outside his home March 19, 2004. Mora was a top editor at Nuevo Laredo's largest newspaper El Manana, and had been publishing stories that exposed the Mexican drug cartels in his region. “The police told me they were going to do everything possible to... Read More
Legal cases involving Mexican drug cartels
Updated: Tue, Apr 28, 2009
1999 — (Thomas) Informant Abraham Weibe told Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Control agents he could expose a major drug smuggling operation in western Oklahoma in exchange for money. The agency placed Weibe on the payroll, set him up in a rural farmhouse in Thomas, and placed him under... Read More
Top policeman killed in northern Mexico
Updated: Sat, May 10, 2008
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- The No. 2 police officer in a Mexican border city across from Texas was shot dead Saturday, the latest high-ranking official killed in an onslaught of attacks blamed on gangs resisting a crackdown.
Gunman sprayed Juan Antonio Roman Garcia's car with bullets outside his home... Read More
Informant in JFK Case Helped Out Before
Updated: Sun, Jun 3, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) -- A convicted drug trafficker who infiltrated a group of men accused of devising a plot to bomb Kennedy Airport had previously offered help to investigators in exchange for a lighter punishment, according to documents posted Thursday on a Web site.
Authorities had already said in court... Read More
11 arrested in drug ring inquiry
Updated: Wed, Jul 19, 2006
HOBART — Law enforcement officials said Tuesday they dealt a major blow to the illegal drug trade in southwest Oklahoma, ending an 18-month investigation with the arrests of 11 people on drug charges in Kiowa, Greer and Jackson counties.
Investigators continued their search for two other suspected drug... Read More
14 charged in drug probe
Updated: Tue, Jul 18, 2006
HOBART -- An 18-month investigation into methamphetamine traffic ended Tuesday with charges filed against 14 people in state and federal courts, District Attorney John Wampler announced.
Early Tuesday agents of the District 3 DA Drug Task Force, FBI and Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs,... Read More
Ex-soldier gets prison term
Updated: Mon, Jun 26, 2006
A former Army captain was sentenced today to more than a year in prison for taking $3,000 from men he thought were drug dealers.
Thomas A. Ball was one of 13 current and former soldiers at Fort Sill caught up in an FBI drug sting. All have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in federal court in... Read More
2 travelers held in drug case
Updated: Thu, Jun 22, 2006
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A cross-country trip ended last month for two California men after authorities said they found a cache of cocaine hidden in the men's car.
Earnest Brown, 69, and Leon Jackson, 71, were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City on charges that could land them behind bars for the... Read More
Juror's note leads to mistrial
Updated: Thu, Jun 22, 2006
STILLWATER -- A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in a drug-trafficking case after two jurors were caught passing notes.
One of the jurors, Nicole Lea Peterson, 23, was later arrested on a complaint of perjury. Police escorted her out of the courtroom after she swore under oath that she had not passed notes to... Read More
Gangs emerge in state
Updated: Sat, Jun 17, 2006
Authorities in northwest contend with drug smuggling, violence.
When a police officer stopped a speeding car Thursday night in downtown Guymon, the driver and passengers looked like an ordinary family.
Gang reference card for parents
Anything but ordinary was the 47 pounds of cocaine in... Read More
Gangs emerge in state
Updated: Sat, Jun 17, 2006
Authorities in northwest contend with drug smuggling, violence.
When a police officer stopped a speeding car Thursday night in downtown Guymon, the driver and passengers looked like an ordinary family.
Gang reference card for parents
Anything but ordinary was the 47 pounds of cocaine in... Read More
Nine arrested on drug counts
Updated: Sat, Jun 3, 2006
PERRY -- Nine people have been arrested in Perry and charged with more than 30 felony drug counts. Perry Police Chief Mike Thomas said the arrests Thursday resulted from a nine-month investigation of drug trafficking in the area. He promised more arrests as part of "Operation Clean Sweep." "Fighting the sale... Read More
Drug sting leads to prison sentence for former soldier
Updated: Fri, Jun 2, 2006
A $2,000 bribe is costing a former military policeman 18 months of his life. Ian Grant was sentenced to prison Thursday for taking a bribe from FBI agents posing as drug smugglers in 2004. Grant, 25, is one of 13 current or former soldiers from Fort Sill snared in an FBI sting that grew out of a similar operation... Read More
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