8 h. ago World's most violent cartel operates like corporate business to run global drug

How murder and kidnapping has made the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel the most feared and powerful drugs cartel in the world.

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22 h. ago Disabled child seized by ICE agents outside LA school in horrific case of mistaken identity

A special needs student was wrongly detained by the ICE agents while attending an orientation at Arleta High School in Los Angeles, leaving public officials and local parents petrified and furious.

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3 d. ago The Colombian immigrant who became 'Britain's Pablo Escobar': How Jesus Ruiz Henao built a £1bn drug empire in the UK

Jesus Ruiz Henao reflected on his story in a two-part Discovery+ docuseries The Bus Driver: Britain's Cocaine King that marks the jailed drug baron's first TV interview.

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3 w. ago Gangster granny who used family to run £80m drug empire and splashed out on designer accessories for her cat is jailed for 20 years

Deborah Mason, 65, revelled in her status as a cocaine kingpin, instructing her own family, whom she recruited as drug runners, to call her 'Gangster Debbs' and 'Queen Bee'.

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3 w. ago Untamed review – Eric Bana’s national park thriller is as beautiful as it is totally predictable

The actor is like Bear Grylls with a badge in a macho Yosemite-set detective drama that’s very easy on the eye. It’s not the smartest, but the mountains are lovelyUntamed is a blunt force thriller, set in Yosemite national park in California, starring Eric Bana as a macho special agent who prefers silence to talking and horses to motorised vehicles. It is perfectly serviceable though oddly retro – not just because it scoffs at petrol engines, but because it feels as if it could have been made in the 1990s. Even a crucial smartphone plotline doesn’t come into it until very close to the end, and although park rangers have become a political hot potato in the US, national politics emphatically do not exist here.That makes Untamed an undemanding watch, but don’t expect much depth. It’s as easy on the eye as it is straightforward. Bana is Kyle Turner, technically not a park ranger, even though he’s dressed like one, but an ISB Special Agent, which gives him extra-special cop powers. Devo...

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4 w. ago US special agents infiltrate Kinahan cartel as global drug empire unravels

An American sting, which began in June 2022, exposed the Kinahan crime syndicate's growing ambitions to rival top-tier cartels like Mexico’s Sinaloa by expanding into synthetic drugs, including methamphetamine and fentanyl

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