News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Mexico arrests major suspect linked to Colombian cocaine cartel, sends to U.S.

By Julie Watson
ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities have arrested a reputed major figure in one of Colombia's largest and most feared drug cartels responsible for nearly half of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, U.S. officials said Friday.

Jaime Maya Duran was arrested Wednesday by agents of Mexico's attorney general's office in Mexico City and flown immediately to New York, where he is under indictment on drug trafficking and money laundering charges, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, said in a news release.

Maya Duran's arrest “shows the determination of U.S. and Mexican law enforcement authorities to pursue the most dangerous criminals, including those who thought they were untouchable,” U.S. Ambassador in Mexico Tony Garza said in a statement.

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