Drug lord, the Glossary
A drug lord, drug baron, kingpin, or lord of drugs is a type of crime boss in charge of a drug trafficking network, organization, or enterprise.[1]
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242 relations: Al Capone, Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, ALM (company), Altiplano, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, American Gangster (film), Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Appellate court, Arms trafficking, Arrest warrant, Asia, Baja California, Ballyfermot, Beltrán-Leyva Organization, Benjamín Arellano Félix, Black Mafia Family, Bodyguard, Boeing 727, Bolivia, Bolivians in Brazil, Brazil, Bribery, Cali Cartel, California State University, Northridge, Campaign finance, Cannabis (drug), Carlos Beltrán Leyva, Carrot and stick, Cathy Scott, CBS News, Central Intelligence Agency, Chief of police, Cocaine, Collusion, Colombians, Comando Vermelho, Commander, Confidentiality, Contract killing, Contras, Corruption, Costa del Sol, Covert listening device, Covert operation, Crime boss, Criminal charge, Criminal investigation, Cuerpo de Fuerzas Especiales, David Byrne (criminal), De facto, ... Expand index (192 more) »
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Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1925 to 1931.
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva (born January 21, 1971), commonly referred to by his alias El Mochomo (The Desert Ant), is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, a drug trafficking organization.
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ALM (company)
ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media) is a media company headquartered in the Socony–Mobil Building in Manhattan, and is a provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal, insurance, and commercial real estate sectors.
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Altiplano
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes
Amado Carrillo Fuentes (December 17, 1956 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord.
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American Gangster (film)
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.
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Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 is a major law of the War on Drugs passed by the U.S. Congress which did several significant things.
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Appellate court
An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.
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Arms trafficking
Arms trafficking or gunrunning is the illicit trade of contraband small arms, explosives, and ammunition, which constitutes part of a broad range of illegal activities often associated with transnational criminal organizations.
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Arrest warrant
An arrest warrant or bench warrant is a warrant issued by a judge or magistrate on behalf of the state which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual or the search and seizure of an individual's property.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Baja California
Baja California ('Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico.
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Ballyfermot
Ballyfermot is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
Beltrán-Leyva Organization
The Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO), also known as the Beltrán Leyva Cartel; Cártel de los Beltrán Leyva (CBL), was a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate, formerly headed by the five Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo, Mario Alberto, and Héctor.
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Benjamín Arellano Félix
Benjamín Arellano Félix (born 12 March 1952) is a Mexican former drug lord who alongside his brothers founded and led the Tijuana Cartel or "Arellano-Félix Organization” until his arrest in March 2002.
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Black Mafia Family
The Black Mafia Family (BMF) is a drug trafficking and money laundering organization in the United States.
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Bodyguard
A bodyguard (or close protection officer/operative) is a type of security guard, government law enforcement officer, or servicemember who protects a person or a group of people — usually witnesses, high-ranking public officials or officers, wealthy people, and celebrities — from danger: generally theft, assault, kidnapping, assassination, harassment, loss of confidential information, threats, or other criminal offences.
Boeing 727
The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
Bolivians in Brazil
Bolivians in Brazil are individuals of full, partial, or predominantly Bolivian ancestry, or a Bolivian-born person residing in Brazil.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Bribery
Bribery is the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty and to incline the individual to act contrary to their duty and the known rules of honesty and integrity.
Cali Cartel
The Cali Cartel (Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca.
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge (CSUN or Cal State Northridge), is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Campaign finance
Campaign finance, also known as election finance, political donations or political finance, refers to the funds raised to promote candidates, political parties, or policy initiatives and referendums.
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Cannabis (drug)
Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.
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Carlos Beltrán Leyva
Carlos Beltrán Leyva (born 1969) is a Mexican incarcerated drug lord with the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel.
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Carrot and stick
The phrase "carrot and stick" is a metaphor for the use of a combination of reward and punishment to induce a desired behaviour.
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Cathy Scott
Cathleen Scott (born) is a Los Angeles Times and New York Times bestselling American true crime author and investigative journalist who penned the biographies and true crime books The Killing of Tupac Shakur and The Murder of Biggie Smalls, both bestsellers in the United States and United Kingdom, and was the first to report Shakur's death.
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Chief of police
A chief of police (COP) is the title given to an appointed official or an elected one in the chain of command of a police department, particularly in North America.
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Cocaine
Cocaine (from, from, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.
Collusion
Collusion is a deceitful agreement or secret cooperation between two or more parties to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading or defrauding others of their legal right.
Colombians
Colombians (Colombianos) are people identified with the country of Colombia.
Comando Vermelho
Comando Vermelho (Red Command or Red Commando), also known as CV, is a Brazilian criminal organization engaged primarily in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, protection racketeering, kidnapping-for-ransom, hijacking of armored trucks, loansharking, irregular warfare, narco-terrorism, and turf wars against rival criminal organizations, such as Primeiro Comando da Capital and Terceiro Comando Puro.
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Commander
Commander (commonly abbreviated as Cmdr.) is a common naval officer rank as well as a job title in many armies.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise usually executed through confidentiality agreements that limits the access to or places restrictions on distribution of certain types of information.
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Contract killing
Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people.
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Contras
The Contras (from lit) were the various U.S.-backed-and-funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which had come to power in 1979 following the Nicaraguan Revolution.
Corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.
Costa del Sol
The Costa del Sol (literally "Coast of the Sun") is a region in the south of Spain in the autonomous community of Andalusia, comprising the coastal towns and communities along the coastline of the Province of Málaga and the eastern part of Campo de Gibraltar in Cádiz.
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Covert listening device
A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone.
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Covert operation
A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity of the party responsible.
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Crime boss
A crime boss, also known as a crime lord, mafia don, big boss, gang lord, gang boss, mob boss, kingpin, godfather, crime mentor, criminal mastermind, or boss lady is the leader of a criminal organization.
Criminal charge
A criminal charge is a formal accusation made by a governmental authority (usually a public prosecutor or the police) asserting that somebody has committed a crime.
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Criminal investigation
Criminal investigation is an applied science that involves the study of facts that are then used to inform criminal trials.
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Cuerpo de Fuerzas Especiales
The Special Forces Corps (Cuerpo de Fuerzas Especiales) are the special forces battalions of the Mexican Army.
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David Byrne (criminal)
David Byrne (died 2016) was an Irish criminal associated with the Kinahan Organised Crime Group run by Christy Kinahan.
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De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
Death squad
A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings, massacres, or enforced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or revolutionary terror.
Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director.
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Detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.
Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
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Douglas, Arizona
Douglas is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States that lies in the north-west to south-east running Sulphur Springs Valley.
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Drive-by shooting
A drive-by shooting is a type of assault that usually involves the perpetrator(s) firing a weapon from within a motor vehicle and then fleeing.
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Drug barons of Colombia
Drug barons of Colombia refer to some of the most notable drug lords which operate in illegal drug trafficking in Colombia.
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Drug cartel
A drug cartel is a criminal organization composed of independent drug lords who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade. Drug lord and drug cartel are drug cartels and illegal drug trade.
Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating illicit drug trafficking and distribution within the U.S. It is the lead agency for domestic enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act, sharing concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S.
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A drug-related crime is a crime to possess, manufacture, or distribute drugs classified as having a potential for abuse (such as cocaine, heroin, morphine and amphetamines).
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Dubai
Dubai (translit) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates.
Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
Durango
Durango, officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango (Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: Korian; Nahuatl: Tepēhuahcān), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in the northwest portion of the country.
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Electoral fraud
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both.
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Ensenada, Baja California
Ensenada is a city in Ensenada Municipality, Baja California, situated on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
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Extortion
Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion.
In an extradition, one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, into the custody of the other's law enforcement.
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives is a most wanted list maintained by the United States's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
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Felipe Calderón
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 and 2004.
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Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
Folk hero
A folk hero or national hero is a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.
Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Freddie Thompson (Irish criminal)
Frederick "Fat Freddie" Thompson is an Irish criminal connected to the Crumlin-Drimnagh feud who was also convicted of the murder of David Douglas.
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Freeway Rick Ross (book)
Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography is a 2014 memoir by former drug kingpin Rick Ross, co-authored by American crime writer Cathy Scott, about the rise and fall of Ross, in the 1980s and '90s, to his 2009 release from prison.
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Garda Síochána
The italic (meaning "the Guardian(s) of the Peace") is the national police and security service of Ireland.
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Gary Webb
Gary Stephen Webb (August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was an American investigative journalist.
Gay Mitchell
Gabriel Mitchell (born 30 December 1951) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for European Affairs from 1994 to 1997 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1992 to 1993.
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George Mitchell (criminal)
George Mitchell, nicknamed The Penguin, is an Irish criminal originally from Ballyfermot.
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Gerry Hutch
Gerard Hutch (born 11 April 1963) is an Irish criminal.
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
Gilberto José Rodríguez Orejuela (31 January 1939 – 31 May 2022) was a Colombian drug lord and one of the leaders of the Cali Cartel.
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Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
The Golden Triangle is a large, mountainous region of approximately in northeastern Myanmar, northwestern Thailand and northern Laos, centered on the confluence of the Ruak and Mekong rivers.
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Good governance
Good governance is the process of measuring how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources and guarantee the realization of human rights in a manner essentially free of abuse and corruption and with due regard for the rule of law.
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Governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative.
Guadalajara Cartel
The Guadalajara Cartel (Cártel de Guadalajara), also known as The Federation (La Federación), was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in 1980 by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in order to ship cocaine and marijuana to the United States.
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Guyana
Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
Guyanese people
The people of Guyana, or Guyanese, come from a wide array of backgrounds and cultures including aboriginal natives, African and Indian origins, as well as a minority of Chinese and European descendant peoples.
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Halfway house
A halfway house is an institute for people with criminal backgrounds or substance use problems to learn (or relearn) the necessary skills to re-integrate into society and better support and care for themselves.
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Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York City.
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Héctor Manuel Beltrán Leyva (15 February 1962 – 18 November 2018) was a Mexican drug lord and leader of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, a drug-trafficking organization.
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Héctor Luis Palma Salazar
Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (born April 29, 1960), commonly known as "El Güero Palma", is a Mexican former drug trafficker and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Ismael Zambada García.
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Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.
Heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.
Hutch–Kinahan feud
The Hutch–Kinahan feud is a major ongoing feud between two criminal organisations in Ireland that has resulted in the deaths of eighteen people, the majority of which have been perpetrated by the Kinahan family.
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Ike Atkinson
Leslie "Ike" Atkinson (November 19, 1925 - November 11, 2014) was a US Army master sergeant and convicted drug trafficker.
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Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.
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Imprisonment
Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty against their will.
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Impunity
Impunity is the ability to act with exemption from punishments, losses, or other negative consequences.
Informant
An informant (also called an informer or, as a slang term, a "snitch", "rat", "canary", "stool pigeon", "stoolie" or "grass", among other terms) is a person who provides privileged information, or (usually damaging) information intended to be intimate, concealed, or secret, about a person or organization to an agency, often a government or law enforcement agency. Drug lord and informant are organized crime members by role.
International Business Times
The International Business Times is an American online newspaper that publishes five national editions in four languages.
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Interstate 110 and State Route 110 (California)
Route 110, consisting of State Route 110 (SR 110) and Interstate 110 (I-110), is a state and auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of the US state of California.
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Intimidation
Intimidation is a behaviour and legal wrong which usually involves deterring or coercing an individual by threat of violence.
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Iran–Contra affair
The Iran–Contra affair (ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Caso Irán-Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal and more rarely as the Iran Initiative, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Irish Mob
The Irish Mob (also known as the Irish mafia or Irish organized crime) is a usually crime family–based ethnic collective of organized crime syndicates composed of primarily ethnic Irish members which operate primarily in Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and have been in existence since the early 19th century.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada
Ismael Mario Zambada García (born 1 January 1948) aka El Mayo is a Mexican former drug lord, co-founder and top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
Jamaican posse
Jamaican posses, often referred to simply as posses, are a loose coalition of Jamaican gangs, based predominantly in Kingston, Montego Bay, London, New York City and Toronto, first being involved in drugs and arms trafficking in the early 1980s.
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James Byrne (Irish criminal)
James Byrne, also known as "Jemmy" or "Jaws" is an Irish criminal.
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Javier Lozano Alarcón
Javier Lozano Alarcón (born November 21, 1962) is a Mexican politician who served Secretary of Labor in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón.
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Jim Mitchell (politician)
Jim Mitchell (19 October 1946 – 2 December 2002) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as deputy leader of Fine Gael from 2001 to 2002, Minister for Communications from 1984 to 1987, Minister for Transport and Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1982 to 1984, Minister for Justice from 1981 to 1982 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1976 to 1977.
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Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate.
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José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos
José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos (7 June 1957 – 4 November 2008) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and civil servant.
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Juan David Ochoa Vásquez
Juan David Ochoa Vásquez (13 April 1946 – 25 July 2013) was a Colombian drug trafficker and one of the founders of the Medellín Cartel, a major drug trafficking cartel based in the city of Medellín.
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Juan Orlando Hernández
Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado (born 28 October 1968), also known by his initials JOH, is a Honduran lawyer, politician and convicted drug trafficker who was president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022 for two consecutive terms.
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Juárez Cartel
The Juárez Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Juárez), also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, across the Mexico—U.S. border from El Paso, Texas.
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Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.
Judicial misconduct
Judicial misconduct occurs when a judge acts in ways that are considered unethical or otherwise violate the judge's obligations of impartial conduct.
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Judiciary
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.
Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will.
Kiki Camarena
Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar (July 26, 1947 – February 9, 1985) was an American intelligence officer for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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Killing of David Byrne
The Irish criminal David Byrne was shot dead on 5 February 2016 at the Regency Hotel in Whitehall, Dublin.
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Kinahan Organised Crime Group
The Kinahan Organised Crime Group (KOCG), also known as the Kinahan Cartel, is a major Irish transnational organised crime syndicate alleged to be the most powerful in Ireland and one of the largest organised crime groups in the world. Drug lord and Kinahan Organised Crime Group are drug cartels.
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Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.
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Klaas Bruinsma (drug lord)
Klaas Bruinsma (6 October 1953 – 27 June 1991) was a major Dutch drug lord.
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Law enforcement agency
A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any government agency responsible for law enforcement within a specific jurisdiction through the employment and deployment of law enforcement officers and their resources.
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Lester Lloyd Coke
Lester Lloyd Coke, commonly known as Jim Brown, was a Jamaican drug lord and the founder of the Shower Posse, a gang based out of the Tivoli Gardens garrison community in West Kingston.
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Liam Byrne (Irish criminal)
Liam Byrne (born 30 October 1980) is an Irish criminal and member of the Byrne Organised Crime Group and the Kinahan Organised Crime Group founded by Christy Kinahan.
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Life (magazine)
Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.
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Life imprisonment
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Los Pepes
Los Pepes, a name derived from the Spanish phrase Los Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar (English), was a paramilitary group composed of enemies of Pablo Escobar.
Los Zetas
Los Zetas (Spanish for "The Zs") was a Mexican criminal syndicate, known as one of the most dangerous of Mexico's drug cartels.
Louisiana
Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.
Manhunt (law enforcement)
In law enforcement, a manhunt is an extensive and thorough search for a wanted and dangerous fugitive involving the use of police units, technology, and help from the public.
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Mansion
A mansion is a large dwelling house.
Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and the municipal seat of the homonymous municipality.
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Mazatlán
Mazatlán is a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
MDMA
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (tablet form), and molly or mandy (crystal form), is a potent empathogen–entactogen with stimulant and minor psychedelic properties.
Mechanic
A mechanic is a skilled tradesperson who uses tools to build, maintain, or repair machinery, especially cars.
Medellín Cartel
The Medellín Cartel (Cártel de Medellín) was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia, that was founded and led by Pablo Escobar.
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Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine (contracted from) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly as a second-line treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity.
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Mexican Army
The Mexican Army (Ejército Mexicano) is the combined land and air branch and is the largest part of the Mexican Armed Forces; it is also known as the National Defense Army.
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Mexican drug war
The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs;, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as the war against the narco) is an ongoing asymmetric armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Mexico–United States border
The Mexico–United States border (frontera Estados Unidos–México) is an international border separating Mexico and the United States, extending from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Gulf of Mexico in the east.
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Miami International Airport
Miami International Airport, also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field, is the primary international airport serving Miami, Florida and its metropolitan area with over 1,000 daily flights to 185 domestic and international destinations, including most countries in Latin America.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born January 8, 1946), commonly referred to by his aliases El Jefe de Jefes ('The Boss of Bosses') and El Padrino ('The Godfather'), is a convicted Mexican drug kingpin who was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel, which controlled much of the drug trafficking in Mexico and the corridors along the Mexico–United States border in the 1980s.
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Miguel Caro Quintero
Miguel Ángel Caro Quintero (born 1963) is a Mexican convicted drug lord and former leader of the Sonora Cartel, a defunct criminal group based in Sonora.
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Military organization
Military organization (AE) or military organisation (BE) is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as to offer such military capability as a national defense policy may require.
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Money laundering
Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.
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Municipal police
Municipal police, city police, or local police are law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.
Narco-state
Narco-state (also narco-capitalism or narco-economy) is a political and economic term applied to countries where all legitimate institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of the illegal drug trade. Drug lord and narco-state are illegal drug trade.
Narcocorrido
A narcocorrido ("narco-corrido" or drug ballad) is a subgenre of the Regional Mexican corrido (narrative ballad) genre, from which several other genres have evolved.
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Narcoterrorism
Narcoterrorism, in its original context, is understood to refer to the attempts of narcotics traffickers to influence the policies of a government or a society through violence and intimidation, and to hinder the enforcement of anti-drug laws by the systematic threat or use of such violence. Drug lord and Narcoterrorism are illegal drug trade.
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Naval Infantry Corps
The Naval Infantry Corps (Cuerpo de Infantería de Marina), also referred to as the Mexican Marines, are the naval infantry force of the Mexican Navy.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
Obstruction of justice in the United States
In United States jurisdictions, obstruction of justice refers to a number of offenses that involve unduly influencing, impeding, or otherwise interfering with the justice system, especially the legal and procedural tasks of prosecutors, investigators, or other government officials.
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Officer (armed forces)
An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.
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Organized crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit.
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Osasco
Osasco is a municipality in São Paulo State, Brazil, located in the Greater São Paulo area and ranking 5th in population among São Paulo municipalities.
Oscar Danilo Blandón
Oscar Danilo Blandón Reyes (born July 29, 1951) is a Nicaraguan born drug trafficker who is best known as one of the main subjects of the 1996 newspaper series "Dark Alliance" by reporter Gary Webb.
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Osiel Cárdenas Guillén
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (born 18 May 1967) is a Mexican drug lord and the former leader of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.
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Pablo Escobar
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (1 December 19492 December 1993) was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician, who was the founder and sole leader of the Medellín Cartel.
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Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.
Patronage
Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another.
People smuggling
People smuggling (also called human smuggling), under U.S. law, is "the facilitation, transportation, attempted transportation or illegal entry of a person or persons across an international border, in violation of one or more countries' laws, either clandestinely or through deception, such as the use of fraudulent documents".
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.
Police corruption
Police corruption is a form of police misconduct in which law enforcement officers end up breaking their political contract and abusing their power for personal gain.
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Police impersonation
Police impersonation is the act of falsely portraying oneself as a member of the police for the purpose of deception.
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Police radio
Police radio is a radio system used by police and other law enforcement agencies to communicate with one another.
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Police raid
A police raid is an unexpected visit by police or other law enforcement officers with the aim of using the element of surprise to seize evidence or arrest suspects believed to be likely to hide evidence, resist arrest, endanger the public or officers if approached through other means, or simply be elsewhere at another time.
Police station
A police station (sometimes called a "station house" or just "house") is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of police staff.
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Political campaign
A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making progress within a specific group.
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Political corruption
Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain.
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President of Honduras
The president of Honduras (Presidente de Honduras), officially known as the President of the Republic of Honduras (Presidente de la República de Honduras), is the head of state and head of government of Honduras, and the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces.
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Primeiro Comando da Capital
The Primeiro Comando da Capital ("Capital's First Command",, PCC) is a Brazilian organized crime syndicate. Drug lord and Primeiro Comando da Capital are drug cartels.
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Private army
A private army (or private military) is a military or paramilitary force consisting of armed combatants who owe their allegiance to a private person, group, or organization, rather than a nation or state.
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Proceso (magazine)
Proceso (Process) is a left-wing Mexican news magazine published in Mexico City.
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Property room
Property rooms, or evidence rooms, are secure areas used to store seized property, stolen property, and evidence to be used in court.
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Prosecutor
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system, which is adopted in common law, or inquisitorial system, which is adopted in civil law.
Prosecutorial misconduct
In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." It is similar to selective prosecution.
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Pseudoephedrine
Pseudoephedrine, sold under the brand name Sudafed among others, is a sympathomimetic medication which is used as a decongestant to treat nasal congestion.
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Puerto Rico
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Radio frequency
Radio frequency (RF) is the oscillation rate of an alternating electric current or voltage or of a magnetic, electric or electromagnetic field or mechanical system in the frequency range from around to around.
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Ramón Arellano Félix
Ramón Eduardo Arellano Félix (August 31, 1964 – February 10, 2002) was a Mexican drug lord who alongside his brothers founded and led the Tijuana Cartel (a.k.a. the Arellano-Félix Organization).
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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Rivalry
A rivalry is the state of two people or groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship.
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema.
Rule of law
The rule of law is a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders.
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.
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Search and seizure
Search and seizure is a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has been committed, commence a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence found in connection to the crime.
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Search Bloc
The Search Bloc (Bloque de Búsqueda) is the name of three different ad hoc special operations units of the National Police of Colombia (Policía Nacional de Colombia).
Shower Posse
Shower Posse is a Jamaican gang, started by Lester Lloyd Coke, which is involved in drug and arms smuggling.
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Sinaloa Cartel
The Sinaloa Cartel (Cártel de Sinaloa, CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Zambada Organization, the Federation, the Blood Alliance, or the Pacific Cartel, is a large, international organized crime syndicate based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico that specializes in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering.
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Sonora Cartel
The Sonora Cartel, also known as Caro Quintero Organization, was a Mexico based criminal cartel.
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South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
State police
State police, provincial police or regional police are a type of sub-national territorial police force found in nations organized as federations, typically in North America, South Asia, and Oceania.
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Sting operation
In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person attempting to commit a crime.
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Substance abuse
Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is the use of a drug in amounts or by methods that are harmful to the individual or others.
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Tampering with evidence
Tampering with evidence, or evidence tampering, is an act in which a person alters, conceals, falsifies, or destroys evidence with the intent to interfere with an investigation (usually) by a law-enforcement, governmental, or regulatory authority.
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Taubaté Prison
Taubaté Prison, an infamous correctional facility nestled in the city of Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil, has gained notoriety due to its reputation for housing extremely violent offenders.
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Tecate
Tecate is a city in Tecate Municipality, Baja California.
Testimony
Testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter.
Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
The Council (drug syndicate)
The Council was an African-American organized crime syndicate in New York City that controlled the heroin trade in the Harlem area of the city during the 1970s.
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The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.
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The Mercury News
The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thomas Kavanagh (Irish criminal)
Thomas "Bomber" Kavanagh is an Irish criminal and a senior member of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group founded by Christy Kinahan.
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Tijuana Cartel
The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana) or Arellano-Félix-Cartel (Spanish: Cártel Arellano Félix, CAF) is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
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Tivoli Gardens, Kingston
Tivoli Gardens is a neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Tom Folsom
Tom Folsom is a writer living in New York City.
Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United States District Court for the Southern District of California
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California (in case citations, S.D. Cal.) is a federal court in the Ninth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
War on drugs
The war on drugs is the policy of a global campaign, led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States.
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Whitehall, Dublin
Whitehall is a Northside suburb of Dublin City, Ireland.
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Winning hearts and minds
Winning hearts and minds is a concept occasionally expressed in the resolution of war, insurgency, and other conflicts, in which one side seeks to prevail not by the use of superior force, but by making emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side.
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Wiretapping
Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means.
Witness tampering
Witness tampering is the act of attempting to improperly influence, alter or prevent the testimony of witnesses within criminal or civil proceedings.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
1999 Matamoros standoff
On 9 November 1999, two agents from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were threatened at gunpoint and nearly killed in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, by gunmen of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in the area.
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2006 São Paulo violence outbreak
The 2006 São Paulo violence outbreak began on the night of May 12, 2006 in São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America.
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2009 Mexico most-wanted drug lords
This is a list of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords as published by Mexican federal authorities on 23 March 2009.
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2017 Brazil prison riots
The 2017 Brazil prison riots were a confrontation between two criminal organizations, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV), and their allies within prisons and peripheries of Brazilian cities.
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2019 Altamira prison riot
The Altamira prison riot occurred on 29 July 2019, when a riot broke out at the Centro de Recuperação Regional de Altamira prison in Altamira, Pará, Brazil due to drug turf disputes between rival gangs within the prison.
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2019 Brazil prison riots
Prison riots in Brazil that began on May 26, 2019 resulted in the deaths of at least 112 people as of July 29, 2019.
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See also
Drug cartels
- Cachiros
- Drug cartel
- Drug lord
- Drug trafficking organizations
- Kinahan Organised Crime Group
- Narcoparamilitary
- Primeiro Comando da Capital
- Sam Gor
Illegal drug trade
- 1-(2-Chloro-N-methylbenzimidoyl)cyclopentanol
- Anna Wood (born 1980)
- Baker (military code-name)
- CIA drug trafficking allegations
- Capital punishment for drug trafficking
- Centre de Coordination de la Lutte Anti-drogue en Méditerranée
- Clandestine chemistry
- Cocaine trafficking
- Counterfeit illegal drug selling
- Darknet market
- Darknet markets
- Death of Leah Betts
- Drug Court of New South Wales
- Drug cartel
- Drug cartels
- Drug corridor
- Drug diversion
- Drug house
- Drug lord
- Drug traffickers
- Drug trafficking organizations
- Execution of Carey Dean Moore
- Fenethylline
- Illegal drug trade
- Isopropylbenzylamine
- Lagaren (ship)
- Moonshine
- Narco-state
- Narcoguerrilla
- Narcoterrorism
- Opium Wars
- Politics of drug abuse
- Precursor chemicals
- Rachel Whitear
- Rolling meth lab
- Russian darknet market conflict
- World Drug Report
Organized crime members by role
- Bagman
- Bootleggers
- Capo dei capi
- Capobastone
- Capocrimine
- Capodecina
- Caporegime
- Consigliere
- Consiglieri
- Crime bosses
- Don (honorific)
- Drug lord
- Gangster
- Gun moll
- Henchman
- Informant
- Made man
- Mafia hitmen
- Pentiti
- Pentito
- Soldato
- Underboss
- Vangelo
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_lord
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