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...names like "Mafia Clothes" sell gold chains of Kalashnikov rifles to heavily armed men in alligator-skin boots who drive huge, gleaming pickups. "These guys are scared of nothing," says Mercurio Sanchez, 50, a record store owner. "They have no fear of the police, the army or even the DEA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Drug War Goes 'Behind Enemy Lines' | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...province's drug traffickers. Sinaloa is the cradle of Mexico's narco-trafficking industry, producing the majority of the nation's drug kingpins in recent decades. Their number includes such storied figures as Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who ran the Guadalajara Cartel and ordered the savage killing of a DEA agent; Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias "The Lord of the Skies," who died in plastic surgery while attempting to change his appearance; and the Arellano Felix brothers, who ran Tijuana as a personal fiefdom. The state of 2.5 million people consistently has the highest murder rates in Mexico, with 350 drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Drug War Goes 'Behind Enemy Lines' | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...freeze may explain why Bout was willing to stick his neck out for new business. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) sting operation came together relatively quickly. According to the charging documents filed with the Southern District of New York, a confidential source working for the DEA emailed an associate of Bout in November to arrange for an arms shipment FARC. Using the code words "farming equipment" in the emails, Bout's intermediary allegedly planned for 100 Russian-made Ingla surface-to-air missiles to be air-dropped into FARC territory inside Colombia. After meetings in Curacao, Copenhagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Lord of War Was Nabbed | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...meth after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. “Breaking Bad” is quite literally “Weeds” on crack. As if the cancer plot isn’t enough, White also has a pregnant wife, a son with cerebral palsy, and a DEA-agent brother-in-law. Not even “Weeds” managed to get to those storylines until its second season.Naturally, a premise this loopy calls for a stronger-than-average lead actor, and “Breaking Bad” has a great one in Bryan Cranston. Best...

Author: By Allie T. Pape, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Breaking Bad' and Character-Driven TV | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...innocent people in jail - because they are built not around what men do but around what's in their hearts. When they don't work, when the jury won't buy the legitimate claims of a dodgy informant, dangerous people can go free. In San Francisco, the DEA lost a felony drug-trafficking case in October after the informant admitted to smoking crack during the investigation and then, on the witness stand, fell asleep - seven times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Dix Conspiracy | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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