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MEXICO CITY – The Mexican military says it has arrested a man who was carrying 1,000 doses of heroin along with cocaine, methamphetamines and a weapon on a federal highway. A Defense Department statement issued Saturday says military personnel stopped the suspect the previous day at an...

Vancouver police are issuing a public warning to local drug users about a potentially fatal heroin that is in circulation. Two women — one 26 years old and the other 19 years old — have died from possible heroin overdoses, said Const. Lindsey Houghton. Houghton said that in a third case, a man...

NEW YORK (AFP) – Former World Cup referee Byron Moreno pleaded guilty to heroin smuggling charges, the US attorney's office said. Ecuador's Moreno, who is being held without bail, admitted one count of heroin smuggling, spokesman Robert Nardoza said, and faces more than five years in prison...

Washington -- Almost $56 million worth of high-quality heroin has been seized in a series of drug busts in Afghanistan, according to senior Drug Enforcement Administration officials. The operation in Nangarhar Province was jointly conducted by the DEA, the Department of Defense, NATO, the...

MEXICO CITY – Federal police have arrested Mexico's so-called "King of Heroin," a powerful drug trafficker allegedly responsible for running hundreds of pounds of heroin into Southern California each year, authorities said Thursday. Jose Antonio Medina, nicknamed "Don Pepe," was arrested in...