Colombia’s top anti-corruption official has been arrested on US charges of money laundering in connection with an alleged bribery scheme, officials say. Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, national director of anti-corruption, was arrested in Colombia and faces extradition to the US. They are both charged with conspiring to launder money to promote foreign bribery, US prosecutors … Read more
Overdose deaths are now the leading cause of death among young Americans – killing more in a year than were ever killed annually by HIV, gun violence or car crashes. Preliminary CDC data published by the New York Times shows US drug overdose deaths surged 19 percent to at least 59,000 in 2016. That means … Read more
US drug overdose deaths surged 19 percent to at least 59,000 last year as deadly manufactured drugs like fentanyl intensified a national opioid addiction crisis, New York Times data showed Tuesday. The data compiled by the Times showed that for the first time, drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under 50 … Read more
Many US communities are facing an epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse that is straining resources from police, to jails, to emergency medical personnel and treatment centers. West Virginia, a mountainous state of less than two million people, is among the hardest hit, given the economic hardship in an area once dominated by coal mining, … Read more
To hear him tell it in court, he has the blood of 78 people on his hands and allegedly shipped 20 tons of cocaine to the United States. He also laundered millions of dollars, and, once imprisoned in America, started spilling the beans — and terrifying powerful people back home in his native Honduras. From … Read more
Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman is fast deteriorating in the New York cell where he is detained, his laywers have complained. The infamous drug lord – who is likely to spend the rest of his life in a maximum security prison if convicted on a raft of firearms, drug trafficking and conspiracy … Read more