Tag: drug trafficking

How a criminal-turned-crime-blogger got the notice of the most notorious drug trafficking duo in Scotland.

Filipinos are reckoning with their presidents’ violent approach to the drug trade.

How Mexican drug cartels prey on the indigenous Tarahumara people, using endurance runners to run drugs across the border.

Drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as “El Chapo,” escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico this weekend. It’s his second prison escape. “Anyone who makes a mile-long tunnel from his cell and escapes on a motorcycle is necessarily in collusion with the government,” a government official told Patrick Radden Keefe in his New Yorker […]

How Lisette Lee, a privileged young woman with ties to the Samsung fortune, turned to drug trafficking: Lee would go on to tell federal authorities a lot of things about herself: that she was a famous Korean pop star as well as the heiress to the Samsung electronics fortune; she was so emphatic on this […]