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Teenage hitman for Mexican cartels returns to U.S.

Teenage hitman for Mexican cartels returns to U.S.

Margarito Perez/Reuters Edgar Jimenez Lugo, center, also known as”El Ponchis,” talks to journalists in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in December 2010. The admitted teenage hitman served a three-year sentence for killing for a drug cartel, and is now bound for his native U.S. At age 14, pushed in front of TV cameras by Mexican authorities, a boy born in the U.S. admitted ...

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N.J. drug network tied to Mexican cartels dismantled, authorities say

JOE WARNER/South Jersey Times /Landov “Operation North Pole,” a nine-month sting operation with local, state and federal agents, took down huge and violent narcotics network that moved millions of dollars in heroin and cocaine in Camden, N.J., was announced by state Attorney General John J. Hoffman. Authorities have arrested 34 people and seized drugs, money and a “party bus,” in ...

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