FRESNO, Calif., July 23 (UPI) -- Fresno County, Calif., sheriff's deputies reported seizing $1 billion worth of marijuana plants in the first week of a marijuana plant eradication effort.
AMATITLAN, Guatemala, June 4 (UPI) -- Mexican drug gangs are moving operations to Guatemala, where weak law enforcement and deep-rooted corruption provide fertile ground, officials and analysts say.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 5 (UPI) -- Charlotte, N.C., has emerged as a key distribution point for black tar heroin coming into the United States from Mexico, officials said.
WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- Hezbollah uses the same routes as Mexican cartels to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping profits and threatening security, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Mexican drug cartels are increasingly active inside the United States, producing homegrown marijuana and gaining new urban footholds, officials say.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Mexico says it is cleaning house in its attorney general's office after five anti-drug officials were arrested for secretly working with drug cartels.
CHICAGO, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Mexican drug cartels, finding it harder to smuggle in marijuana, are growing more of their crops in the United States, officials say.
SAN DIEGO, July 27 (UPI) -- U.S. officials say they found a half ton of marijuana on a Mexican fishing boat they commandeered off the coast of southern California.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Larger amounts of drugs are coming into the United States from Mexico, Columbia and Asia, the National Drug Intelligence Center said.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officials said they discovered a tunnel running 400 feet along the U.S.-Mexican border used by traffickers to smuggle drugs. The tunnel, about 20 feet underground, reportedly was outfitted with lights and had a concrete floor,
