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Substantive drug trafficking offenses tied to the Gulf Cartel’s smuggling of cocaine and marijuana into the United States.
Reported cases in U.S. data sets concentrate geographically in large-population and travel-hub states—consistently naming , and among the highest in raw reports—while analyses that adjust for populati...
was found guilty by a U.S. federal jury in mid‑October 1996; contemporary reports of the trial and press coverage place the guilty verdict in articles dated October 17, 1996 after a multi‑week trial ....
is the primary federal law‑enforcement lead that hunts, disrupts and prosecutes transnational trafficking networks using criminal, immigration and trade authorities and a global field presence . is ch...
There is no authoritative, publicly available count of “/ border in 2025” in the reporting provided; major U.S. and Mexican government trafficking assessments describe widespread exploitation but stop...
There is no single, publicly released tally in the reporting provided that definitively states how many released to sponsors were later confirmed as victims of trafficking or abuse; announcements desc...
’s drug-related pardons—ranging from high-profile foreign leaders to domestic drug convictions and kingpins—ignited a debate that split legal scholars, lawmakers and public safety advocates: defenders...
Citizens who assist federal agents can, in certain circumstances, receive formal protective measures through federal witness protection programs that relocate and conceal endangered witnesses and thei...
Research shows a nuanced — and often weak — correlation between illegal immigration and drug trafficking: drugs do move across the southern border and cartels exploit migration routes, but most prosec...
UNODC’s World Drug Report and mapping products portray Venezuela as a transit and secondary processing point for cocaine — not the principal source of cocaine entering the United States — estimating o...