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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, 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. 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, July 8 (UPI) -- Police in Tijuana, Mexico, say a surge in violence in the border city has coincided with friction between drug lords and an upstart underling.
MEXICO CITY, June 25 (UPI) -- Mexico agreed Wednesday to extradite a leading drug kingpin to the United States where he faces trafficking charges, officials said.
TIJUANA, Mexico, April 26 (UPI) -- A gun battle in the streets of Tijuana, Mexico, left as many as 15 members of rival drug gangs dead and eight wounded, authorities said Saturday.
MEXICO CITY, March 21 (UPI) -- Another Mexican singer has been shot and killed by unknown assailants, the latest victim in a rash of killings of musicians, El Universal reported Friday.
TIJUANA, Mexico, March 12 (UPI) -- Mexican police say they have arrested an American man believed to have taken over leadership of a major Mexican drug cartel.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A popular Mexican singer of songs about the country's drug trafficking was killed by drug gang members, El Universal reported Thursday.
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