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WASHINGTON -- An agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Guadalajara, Mexico has been missing since Thursday and is believed to have been kidnapped by drug traffickers, a DEA spokesman said late last night...
Spokesman Robert Feldkamp said the agent, Enrique Salazar Camarena, "left the DEA office shortly after noon Thursday for a luncheon date with his wife and has not been seen since However, the DEA learned from an eyewitness Sunday that four armed men were seen abducting him and throwing him into a car in Guadalajara," Feldkamp added. "There has been no contact or ransom demand from the suspect kidnappers...
Feldkamp said that "this is the first suspected kidnapping of a DEA agent in Mexico...
...bust of the century," said Jon Thomas, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. Mexican drug agents, with the cooperation of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials, seized and destroyed a record 9,000 tons of marijuana in raids on five plantations in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua. (The previous record drug bust took place in 1978, when 570 tons of marijuana were seized in Colombia.) In the U.S., the Mexican pot would have had a street value of about $4 billion, according to Mexican judicial officials. The sheer volume may prompt a reassessment of drug...
Betancur has agreed to a U.S. request for extradition of 23 narcotics suspects, many of them sought by authorities in Miami, which is becoming one of the world's major cocaine capitals. Most wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is Carlos Lehder, 33, who has been indicted in Florida for cocaine importation and distribution. He is rumored to be in Peru...