law enforcement officials

Former drug official in Mexico accused of taking bribe

Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Noe Ramirez Mandujano, who led an elite investigations unit, is the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be arrested. He allegedly tipped off the Beltran Leyva drug gang for $450,000. In a widening probe of corruption at top levels of Mexican law enforcement, authorities said today that they had arrested the nation's former top anti-drug official for allegedly taking...

Former drug official in Mexico accused of taking bribe

LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

Noe Ramirez Mandujano, who led an elite investigations unit, is the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be arrested. He allegedly tipped off the Beltran Leyva drug gang for $450,000. In a widening probe of corruption at top levels of Mexican law enforcement, authorities said today that they had arrested the nation's former top anti-drug official for allegedly taking...

Mass. officials: Internships can cut city violence

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008

Massachusetts law enforcement officials think the state can reduce urban violence with comprehensive prevention programs and summer and school year job internships.

Officials: Mexican Drug Officer Took Cartel $ to Leak Info

Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Officials say Mexico's former drug czar took $450,000 to leak information to a powerful cartel.

Arrest of Interpol official sparks security breach concerns

Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Free subscription) | yesterday

... the possibility that its communications systems and databases are not being used for legitimate law enforcement purposes. The prospect was raised after the arrest of the top official working with the agency in the country.Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas, director for International Police Affairs at Mexico’s Federal Investigative Agency and the head of Mexico’s Interpol office, was placed...

White powder scares cost law enforcement time, money

Minstrel Boy (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008

Firefighters and federal agents have responded to more than 30,000 incidents involving suspicious powders, liquids or chemicals since 2001 in what authorities say is the terrifying legacy of the anthrax attacks after 9/11. Postal service and law enforcement officials say thousands of the incidents are hoaxes involving white powder sent through the mail and thousands more are emergency...

Senior Mexican law official under house arrest

CNN (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008

... the possibility that its communications systems and databases are not being used for legitimate law enforcement purposes. The prospect was raised after the arrest of the top official working with the agency in the country.Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas, director for International Police Affairs at Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency and the head of Mexico's Interpol office, was placed...

Law enforcement holds community notification meeting

DL-Online : Detroit Lakes (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008

For the first time since legislation was passed over 10 years ago, allowing law enforcement officials to notify the general public about a Level 3 predatory offender moving to town, Detroit Lakes is seeing its first.

American Patrol Report: A Lawless Nation Government Helps Illegal Illegals Break Law

Illegal Illegals (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008

American Patrol Report: A Lawless Nation Government Helps Illegal Illegals Break Law Related posts: Michelle Malkin: Texas school district in Dallas has been caught supplying fake Social Security numbers to employees. And it’s been going on for years. The Dallas News won’t come out and say it, but it’s blindingly obvious this school district was cooking up fake Social Security numbers for illegal alien...

Mexico Says Former Drug Czar Took Cartel Money

War News Updates (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

From L.A. Times: MEXICO CITY -- Officials say Mexico's former drug czar took $450,000 to leak information to a powerful cartel. Noe Ramirez is the highest law enforcement official detained yet as part of Mexico's sweeping effort to weeding out authorities who allegedly shared police information with violent drug smugglers. Read more ....

Mexico: Ex-drug czar took $450,000 to leak info to cartel

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday

Noe Ramirez is the highest law enforcement official detained yet as part of an effort to weed out authorities who allegedly shared police information with violent drug smugglers.

Mexican former drug czar took cartel money

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday

Noe Ramirez is the highest law enforcement official detained yet as part of an effort to weed out authorities who allegedly shared police information with violent drug smugglers.

Mexico detains former top anti-drug prosecutor

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday

Mexican authorities detained a former top anti-drug prosecutor on Thursday as part of an investigation into possible links between senior law enforcements officials and drug cartels.

• Mexico investigates former aide to top cop - Miami Herald
• Mexico investigates former aide to top cop - kansascity.com
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Security beefed up for Obama's inauguration

Bradenton.com: Politics (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing far-reaching security — thousands of video cameras, sharpshooters, air patrols — to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in.

Mexican drug czar held in theft from cartel

Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

MEXICO CITY Mexico accused its former drug czar yesterday of taking $450,000 from a cartel he was supposed to destroy, going public with a scandal that deals a serious blow to the country's U.S.-backed drug war. Noe Ramirez is the highest-ranking law enforcement official detained yet as part of Mexico's sweeping effort to weed out officials who allegedly shared police information...