May 3, 2016 Prep school grad gets 9 to 23 months for role in drug ring in affluent Philadelphia suburbs A prep school graduate has been sentenced to nine to 23 months for his role in a ring that sold drugs to high school and college students in Philadelphia's affluent Main Line suburbs.
May 3, 2016 FBI arrests 10 members, associates of the DeCavalcante organized crime family in New Jersey Federal prosecutors have announced the arrest of 10 members and associates of the DeCavalcante organized crime family in New Jersey.
May 3, 2016 Gang enforcer set for execution for killing Texas drug dealer who ignored street tax A Mexican Mafia hit man convicted of beating and strangling a San Antonio woman because she didn't pay the gang's 10 percent tax on her illegal drug sales is heading for the Texas death chamber.
May 3, 2016 Ex-Matamoros Gulf cartel manager gets 50-year prison term; lieutenant gets 35-year term A federal judge has sentenced two former managers in Mexico's Gulf cartel to long prison sentences for their roles in drug and weapons smuggling along the South Texas border with Mexico.
May 3, 2016 Gang enforcer set for execution for killing Texas drug dealer who ignored gang drug tax A gang enforcer convicted of beating and strangling a San Antonio woman who refused to pay a Mexican Mafia-imposed tax on her illegal drug sales is set to be executed this week.
May 3, 2016 NYC to pay $5 million to kin of man killed in 'Mafia cops' case; he was mistaken for mobster Nicholas Guido was showing off his new car outside his mother's home on Christmas Day 1986 when he was gunned down because he'd been mistaken for a mobster with the same name.
May 3, 2016 Sentencing day for twin Chicago traffickers who turned on Mexican cartel The twin brothers from Chicago are reviled by Mexican cartels but praised by prosecutors as the most valuable traffickers-turned-informants in recent U.S. history.
May 3, 2016 Twins who rose to top of drug world eligible for light sentence after informing on drug lord Twin brothers who partnered with Mexico's most notorious cartel kingpin to build a nearly $2 billion North American drug ring will be sentenced Tuesday in Chicago.
May 3, 2016 Not Mayberry anymore': Oil patch towns add cops, jail cells, still scramble to fight crime Police chief Art Walgren knew how much the oil boom had changed this once-sleepy town when he spotted something that would have been unheard of not long ago: license plates from Sinaloa, Mexico, home to one of the world's most violent drug cartels.
May 3, 2016 Mexico's Sinaloa cartel leaders charged in San Diego in probe targeting Zambada and sons Federal indictments unsealed in San Diego charge top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel with smuggling huge amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine and other drugs to the United States.