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US Attorney General John Ashcroft

SDP2003070801- SAN DIEGO, July 8 (UPI) - US Attorney General John Ashcroft along with Rafael Macedo De la Concha, the Attorney General of Mexico announced July 8 2003 at a news conference in San Diego, California, the indictment of 12 individuals who represent the hierarchy of the Arellano-Felix drug cartel. The Arellano-Felix organization is the most notorious multi-national drug trafficking organization ever and is responsible for multiple murders and the transportation of cocaine and marijuana from Tijuana, Mexico to the US through the San Diego and Mexicali borders. ec/EARL S. CRYER UPI


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TIJUANA, Mexico, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A suspected top deputy in Tijuana's Arellano Felix drug cartel has been arrested near the U.S. border, officials say.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Nearly two dozen policemen from the Mexican border town of Tijuana were jailed and face trial for supposed ties to drug trafficking, authorities said.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The police chief in the Mexican border town of Tijuana has been removed after a spate of drug-related violence that left almost 40 people dead in two days.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The deadly drug gang turf wars that have claimed 4,000 lives so far this year in Mexico have spread to cities across the United States, officials say.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Mexican authorities said 14 people were killed in a single day in the city of Tijuana as part of an escalating war among rival criminal groups.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The slayings of 57 gang members in Tijuana, Mexico, in recent weeks is a sign of the breakup of the city's Arellano Felix drug organization, authorities say.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Officials in Tijuana said six bodies were found Friday, raising the body count in an going gangland war to more than 30 this week.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Tijuana police said nine more bodies were found Thursday as a bloody surge continues in the battle for control of the border city's drug trade.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Police in Tijuana, Mexico, are trying to determine if barrels outside a restaurant labeled as holding human remains contained acid to dissolve bodies.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Sixteen bodies found at two locations in a Mexican border town Monday bore the marks of organized crime killings, authorities said.
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