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Yeudi Estrada via Facebook Yeudi Estrada Carrero died after being arrested for disorderly conduct. CANCUN, Mexico — Mexican authorities say they have detained six police officers in the death of a U.S. man who died after being arrested for disorderly conduct in the resort city of Playa del Carmen. Quintana Roo state Assistant Attorney General Carlos Alvarez said Friday that ...

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 ...

Bernandino Hernandez/ASSOCIATED PRESS Authorities have been finding mass graves like this one, unearthed in 2010 in central Mexico, since the Knights Templar cartel went to war with the New Generation syndicate over turf and trafficking routes. MEXICO CITY — An official says investigators have dug up 18 bodies in western Mexico after questioning nearly two dozen police who say they ...

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 ...