Subject: Drug Trafficking

• Resident Evil: Supporters of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean show their true colors.

  September 17, 2007

• THE THAI CONNECTION

  PROSECUTORS WILL SAY NARCOTICS PLAYED NO ROLE IN THE TEMPLE MURDERS. THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS OTHERWISE.

  January 13, 1993

• ARIZONA'S OWN J. EDGAR HOOVER

  RUBEN ORTEGA USED THE PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT TO PURSUE HIS PERSONAL AGENDA-AND HIS POLITICAL FOES

  February 3, 1993

• Symington Family Partner Under Suspicion

  U.S. authorities suspect a Mexican vegetable grower with business ties to the Symingtons is involved in drug trafficking

  March 20, 1997

• Inspectors Can Do Little to Stem Tide of Smuggling

  March 20, 1997

• Visa Granted

  Business partner of Symingtons gets pass good for one year

  April 17, 1997

• Immigrant Songs

  Los Tigres del Norte continue to document the complex lives of Mexicans in America

  May 7, 1998

• Drug Lord

  The bandit Jesus Malverde has been dead for nearly a century. He's still wanted on both sides of the border.

  February 11, 1999

• Arpaio's First Racial Profiling Sweep of the New Year Starts Tomorrow

  Arpayaso harasses brown folk again, this time near Buckeye. Hot off his trip to NYC where he made an ass of himself on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's starting his first Hispanic-hunting foray of the season, as you can see from the press release below. The anti-brown dragnet gets down tomorrow near I-10 and Miller Road, nearby the town of Buckeye, where anyone near the shade of a brown-paper bag can expect to get pulled by the MCSO's boys in beige. As always, you pasty-

  January 8, 2009

• Janet Napolitano Meets with Congressional Hispanic Caucus Thursday: Let's Hope They Grill Her Fat Ass

  photo courtesy of Eduardo Barraza at Barriozona.comThe Congressional Hispanic Caucus needs to turn her fanny into virtual ground round till Nappy yanks Arpaio's 287(g).The congressional daily The Hill is reporting that Department of Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano will be meeting privately for the first time with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus tomorrow in D.C. If true, one can only hope they grill Nappy's generous fanny till it practically resembles the face of that poor Co

  February 25, 2009

• Phoenix FBI Office Gets Experienced New Boss, Nathan Gray

  Nathan Gray, a veteran lawman with experience in counter-terrorism and big-time drug smuggling, has been selected to head up the FBI's Phoenix office. The FBI didn't put out a picture of Gray, but posted a bio of him today on its Web site. Gray previously worked here in 2002 as an assistant special agent in charge of the office. His extensive resume includes stints in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as a legal attache, anti-drug-smuggling efforts with the CIA and a few years in Washington D.C. as

  March 3, 2009

• "Heroin Ring" Stretched from Chandler to Show Low, Says DPS

  On the heels of recent articles across the United States that claim heroin use is surging, the Arizona Department of Public Safety says it recently broke up a major heroin ring based in Chandler. Detectives worked for seven months on the case with members of a northern Arizona anti-drug task force, tracing the source of drugs found in the White Mountains back to the East Valley. In the last week of February, cops served three search warrants and found more than 15 ounces of the narcotic. S

  March 6, 2009

• The Bermudez Triangle

  The immigrant rights movement needs Elias Bermudez, only there's a problem: A lot of his own people don't trust him

  November 15, 2007

• Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution

  October 18, 2007

• The New Boss

  Police have shut down most of the meth labs in Phoenix, but now the drug is a big import from Mexico -- cheap, pure and more plentiful than ever

  November 3, 2005

• Various Artists

  Def Jam Recordings Presents Music Inspired by Scarface (Def Jam)

  October 30, 2003

• Cop Chop

  Political squabbling could end the careers of two veteran police officers

  October 9, 2003

• Furious and Furiouser

  Local lawyer lays down his opinionated tracks

  June 12, 2003

• Border Boyz

  As narcocorridos - Mexican drug ballads - get nastier, the crowds in Phoenix get bigger and bigger

  April 17, 2003

• Hello Mali

  Bang the Drum Thusly

  March 13, 2003

• The Lesser of Three Evils

  Mexico and U.S. authorities finally captured Arizona's leading drug kingpin. Good work, guys. Now let him go.

  February 14, 2002

• City of Coke

  Cocaine from Mexico is the currency that drives gangster economics

  December 30, 1999

• Right Under Their Noses

  How did the sheriff's posse commander and his minions miss what is alleged to have been the largest marijuana-smuggling operation ever run by gringos? They were, after all, sharing a warehouse.

  January 1, 1998

• Phoenix Police See Spike in Heroin Use

  www.motivatedphoto.com​Just when we though crystal meth reigned supreme as the drug of choice among hard dopers, here's this blast from the past. Remember heroin? Well drug addicts sure do, and according to Phoenix police, "smack" is coming back in a big way."Between January 2006 and January 2008, we confiscated a little less than three kilos of heroin off the streets," says Detective James Holmes of the Phoenix Police Department. "Between January 2008 and August 2009 alone, we confiscat

  August 7, 2009

• Face-Changing Drug Dealer to be Sentenced in November

  www.coverbrowser.com​People will do just about anything to avoid the long arm of the law. You know, a cool police chase, hiding out in a friends garage, or how about going to Mexico to have full facial reconstructive surgery and a fingerprint removal procedure.No, this is not the plot of some crappy Nicholas Cage movie, this is what a drug dealer, who was moving drugs from Tucson to Detroit, actually did.

  October 7, 2009