Drug smuggling

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Mexican troops have made a historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009.

LOS ANGELES -- Long before he made the news for allegedly smuggling a heroin-stuffed burrito behind bars, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Henry Marin was a reality TV star -- of sorts.

In the first episode of Fox's reality show "The Academy," which followed a class of Sheriff's Department recruits, Marin was portrayed as the dim-witted class bumbler.

On the first day, he was caught by his supervisor dozing during orientation.

TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION, Ariz. -- Kevin Carlos hates how the drug runners tramp through the ancient cemeteries and holy places he holds dear.

That peak up there, he says, speeding toward the reservation's border with Mexico. That's where the creator lives. His name is I'itoi, the elder brother. He created the tribe out of wet clay after a summer rain. Tribe members still bring him offerings -- shell bracelets, beargrass baskets and family photos -- and leave them in his cave scooped out of the peak.

But the drug smugglers don't know that. On their way to supply America's drug markets, they use these sacred hilltops as lookouts, water holes as toilets and the desert as a trash can.

So Carlos hunts them.

SAN DIEGO -- Federal officials said Thursday they've taken down a drug and weapons trafficking ring involving members of San Diego's Iraqi community and a major Mexican drug cartel that was caught selling large amounts of drugs, guns and grenades.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- From subs to nuts, in wigs, sculpture, fruit and "wearable heroin," drug smugglers are finding more creative ways to conceal their bootlegged goods.

SAN DIEGO -- Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to disqualify the lead defense attorney for Mexican drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix, saying the lawyer once worked on behalf of the Arellano Felix drug cartel to dissuade a witness from cooperating with U.S. law enforcement.

The accusations raise the possibility of the attorney, Jan Ronis, being called as a witness against his own client, who is charged with leading what was once Mexico's most feared organized crime group, prosecutors said in a motion filed in San Diego.