The 59-year-old is accused of running the notorious 18th Street Gang on behalf of her Mexican Mafia husband, who rots in a state prison. She allegedly ran the organization's criminal operations - collecting rent, taxes and dishing out brutal discipline - on behalf of her husband Jorge Gonzales and three other Mexican Mafia leaders in prison.
OPP and Durham Region police executed search warrants at homes in Whitby and Napanee, where they say they found drugs and cash. Police say they found 16 grams of suspected fentanyl, one kilogram of suspected cocaine, Percocet tablets, a fully loaded handgun and ammunition, along with about $20,000 in Canadian and U.S. currency.
During an interview with the force, Mr Allen admitted that he had agreed to allow the package, the contents of which West Mercia Police estimated would have a street value of 20,000, to be delivered, having been asked to do so by a drug dealer. He told the school about it but offered a misleading explanation about the matter, saying he had agreed to receive the parcel but had no knowledge of what it would contain.
In a turn that feels more like a crime thriller than a routine court date, a Staten Island restaurant worker pleaded guilty on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, to obstructing justice after federal prosecutors said he helped try to bribe a juror in the Brooklyn federal trial of heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic. The plea, entered in Brooklyn federal court, followed an FBI probe that intercepted a series of meetings and phone calls tied to an alleged payoff plan. The revelation has frozen Gogic's trial in place and tossed a new legal wrench into an already sprawling drug trafficking case.
A meeting between two drug traffickers in the Amazon jungle region of Putumayo has become a new lever of pressure for Donald Trump on the governments of Colombia and Venezuela. A U.S. intelligence report reveals that Giovanny Andres Rojas aka Arana, the top leader of the Border Commandos and currently imprisoned in La Picota prison in Bogota, is making illegal deals with the Serbian kingpin Antun Mrdeza, who has been held in Venezuela since 2025.
Colombia's government has announced it will resume peace talks with the powerful Gulf Clan, also known as the Gaitanist Self-Defence Forces (ECG), after the criminal group expressed concern about a recent deal with the United States. Tuesday's announcement addresses a temporary suspension the Gulf Clan announced earlier this month, in the wake of a meeting between Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his US counterpart, Donald Trump.
The United States military said on Friday that it had struck another vessel suspected of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean, killing three people. The US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) posted an 11-second clip on social media platform X that showed a boat wading through waters before being hit by what the military called "a lethal kinetic strike" and exploding. The vessel "was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," the statement from SOUTHCOM said.
Ian Claughton rigged his home, in the former pit village of Grimethorpe in South Yorkshire, with tripwires and home-made pipe bombs in order to protect his drugs business from would-be intruders. About 100 houses had to be evacuated in May 2024 as police searched three neighbouring houses connected to Claughton and his ex-wife Lesley Claughton. They found a series of traps as well as a home-made flamethrower, large quantities of cannabis, amphetamines and cash.
Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the strike. Following the engagement, US SOUTHCOM immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor, the military said. Last week, the US claimed responsibility for killing two people in an earlier attack in the eastern Pacific, bringing to three the number of attacks Washington has ordered on vessels since its forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a bloody nighttime raid on the capital, Caracas, in early January.
With 94% of polling stations counted, the political heir of outgoing president, Rodrigo Chaves, had captured 48.3% of the vote, compared with Ramos's 33.4%, according to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). As soon as the first results were announced, members of Fernandez's Sovereign People's party erupted in celebrations around the country, waving blue, red and white-striped Costa Rican flags. Viva Rodrigo Chaves, some cheered, in a nod to Fernandez's mentor.
A 29-year-old Hayward man was charged with six felonies and a misdemeanor after police in Union City identified him as a local drug dealer with a diverse menu for sale, court records show. The unidentified man was charged on Jan. 22 with selling cocaine, methamphetamine, ketamine, psilocybin mushrooms and MDMA, court records show. He also faces a misdemeanor count for allegedly selling marijuana.
According to his eight-count indictment, the ex-cop took more than $30,000 in exchange for transporting drugs, including approximately eight kilograms of cocaine; providing unauthorized armed protection for a drug trafficking enterprise; and submitting false reports to the NYPD to help a co-conspirator avoid repayment of a drug-trafficking-related debt. Nguyen entered a guilty plea to three of the indictment's eight counts bribery and narcotics distribution conspiracy, and a firearm charge before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres Thursday.
Ryan Wedding, the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder now accused of running a multinational drug-trafficking ring and orchestrating the killing of a federal witness, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Santa Ana during a brief hearing on Monday, Jan. 26, days after his headline-grabbing capture. His attorney strongly denied reports that Wedding surrendered to authorities in Mexico, but didn't immediately challenge the government's request to keep him in custody before trial. Wedding, wearing a jail jumpsuit, appeared
Wedding is an enigma to sociology departments worldwide. A precocious snowboarder, he joined the Canadian national team at 15 and, at 21, competed in the parallel giant slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Known by the aliases King and James Conrad, after a character in the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island, Wedding comes from a well-to-do middle-class family in British Columbia. After the Olympics, he began studying at a university in the Vancouver metropolitan area,
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