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Drug Trafficking

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Kevin Corley's Murder-For-Hire/Drug Complaint Reads Like Quentin Tarantino Movie

    Kevin Corley was one of a group of men whose arrests were announced today by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Houston, and let's just say the man makes for a good criminal complaint. It reads like a Quentin Tarantino rip-off and has guns, drugs and a murder for hire in which the killer promised to car ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Chicago Bears WR Sam Hurd Has a Ring...a Drug Ring!

    The Stringer Bell School of Entrepreneurship.​I remember former Houston Texans (and now Washington Redskins) wide receiver David Anderson telling me a couple years ago about a program that the NFL offered players in which they could travel to prestigious universities during the off season and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    DPS: The Mexican Drug Cartels Are Coming After Texas High Schoolers

    They're coming for your high schoolers.​The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a warning today to state residents that didn't sound at all alarming; it just mentioned that "the Mexican Cartels are Recruiting Texas High School Students." Yes, those innocent kids you blithely send off to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Leslie Aikens: HPD Cop Indicted for Drug-Running, Taking Bribe

    Leslie Aikens: Allegedly dealing coke​The feds unsealed an indictment today against a 19-year veteran of the Houston police force accused of drug trafficking and taking a $2,000 bribe. Leslie Aikens, 46, was arrested at the end of his shift today. He is charged with aiding and abetting the p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    "Project Delirium": Big Nationwide Drug Round-Up Results in Texas Arrests

    The hammer comes down.​No, "Project Delirium" isn't the latest Anthrax album; It's a nationwide crackdown targeting alleged members of the La Familia Michoacana Drug Cartel. It's been a 20-month operation, and in the latest wave of arrests beginning this month, 221 suspects have been taken in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Alleged McAllen Starbucks Masturbator Immortalized in Song

    Jose Maravilla, celebrated in song​In the borderlands of South Texas, there has long been a tradition of immortalizing revolutionaries in song. Corridos, as these tunes are known, date back to the decades before the Mexican Revolution, and have been written in honor of people like Emiliano Zap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Mexican Drug Cartel: U.S. Rep and Sheriff Talk Tough on Keeping Them Out of Houston

    The Mexican drug cartels didn't reckon on McCaul and Garcia.​U.S. Representative Mike McCaul and Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia met today and said they are going to do whatever it takes to stop Mexican drug cartels from coming to Houston. Because we want our coke and weed from American d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Who Loves the K2 Ban?

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    Luis Enrique Ramirez: Border Guard Admits Letting Coke and Aliens In

    Right this way, and don't forget to tip your agent​A Border Patrol agent has admitted he waved through a car full of cocaine and helped aliens cross into the U.S. which, to be honest, is pretty clearly against the law. Luis Enrique Ramirez, 38, of Brownsville, entered a guilty plea today, say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Richard Nutt: Sheriff's Deputy Knew Where To Get The Coke He Allegedly Sold

    Photo courtesy HPDRichard Nutt, HCSO vet, charged with dealing coke​Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Richard Nutt, who we're sure has heard all the jokes he cares to about his name, has been arrested and charged with trying to sell two kilos of cocaine. Only a summary of the case is available, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Cash Smugglers Juan Sanchez & Pals: Soaking Wet & Wearing Only Underwear Is No Way To Transport $1.6 Million

    Breaking Bad: Another guy who does drug work in his underwear​More trouble for those pesky drug lords trying to  gt their cash from the marketplace in America to home in Mexico -- an employee, Juan Sanchez, just got more than seven years in a federal prison for doing their dirty work.We're su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Cash Smuggling: Growing Problem For Mexican Gangs?

    Smuggling large piles of cash ain't easy​Sure, running a drug ring is the road to riches. You bring the stuff over the borde, you get tons of money.But then you have to get that money back over the border. And as banks -- including those in Mexico -- get better about finding and reporting suspicio ... More >>

  • News

    September 23, 2010

    Pinalcchio

    Renowned forensics experts say a Pinal County deputy's high-profile tale about getting shot after encountering drug smugglers doesn't add up

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Valley Sheriffs Want To Search Southbound Cars, Too

    Be careful headin' south​Be careful if you're driving south with your guns and life savings. If some sheriffs have their way, county cops could take it all away.Late last week, sheriffs from Cameron County and El Paso County announced that they would love it if deputies started inspecting every ca ... More >>

  • News

    August 26, 2010

    Asylum Denied

    Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories.

  • News

    August 12, 2010

    Seized

    Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

  • News

    June 17, 2010

    The Killer of His Daughter's Mother

    A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner.

  • News

    June 10, 2010

    Cowboy Down

    Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher.

  • News

    June 3, 2010

    Badlands

    From Ground Zero of the immigration crisis along the Mexican border

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Border War: Don't Drift Over To The Mexico Side Of Lake, Texas Warns Fishermen

    Watch out for the AK-47s on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake​You're out for a peaceful day of fishing on Falcon Lake, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, and the next thing you know you're in the middle of an intense firefight, or you're being kidnapped, or turned into a junkie by ruthless drug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Drug Kingpin Juan Jose Quintero-Payan Extradited To Texas

    Welcome to Texas, dude​The U.S. Attorney's offices of Houston and San Antonio have announced a major coup in the drug war: Mexican kingpin Juan Jose Quintero-Payan, 68, has been successfully extradited from Mexico to Texas.Quintero-Payan, of Guadajara, had fought extradition for eight years, but h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Your Chance To Purchase A Drug Kingpin's Home!

    ​ Swamplot, which can navigate the real-estate webz better than us, has pictures of the Drug Kingpin House that you can buy for yourself next week.Located up north near Spring, the tasteful manse was the home of one Darren Odell Jones, currently housed in slightly less spacious digs after being co ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2009

    John Truax

    Web exclusive

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2009

    Graciela Limón: The River Flows North

    The award-winning author explores the immigrant journey north

  • Culture

    February 5, 2009

    Why All the Mexican Narco Hate?

    The award-winning author explores the immigrant journey north

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    David Handler

    Have lunch with the author of The Sour Cherry Surprise

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2007

    In Defense of Michael Vick. Sort Of.

    Have lunch with the author of The Sour Cherry Surprise

  • News

    March 8, 2007

    U.S. informants take part in murder and drug running in Mexico

    Have lunch with the author of The Sour Cherry Surprise

  • News

    August 19, 2004

    Double Trouble

    Juan Diaz just wanted his citizenship. The feds wanted a drug-running felon.

  • Culture

    February 26, 2004

    Pepper-Spraying José

    A "Bubba Mexican" polices the border in Buford Gomez

  • News

    October 18, 2001

    Payback Time?

    Dick DeGuerin beat the IRS. Now there's a bigger war over basic rights.

  • Film

    September 8, 1994

    End Games

    Director Boaz Yakin gives a Fresh twist to tales of the drug trade

  • Film

    August 11, 1994

    Spy Games

    Tom Clancy and Harrison Ford take aim at the War On Drugs

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