San Diego, CA

SAN DIEGO, California — An indictment unsealed yesterday charges the alleged leader of a human smuggling organization responsible for unlawfully bringing thousands of migrants into the United States. Abdul Karim Conteh, 42, a national of Sierra Leone, was arrested on July 11 in Tijuana, Mexico, at the request of...

Human smuggling ring leader indicted and arrested in Mexico

Latin Times

SEATTLE - A new migrant caravan has left the southern Mexican city of Ciudad Hidalgo, next to the Guatemala border, with the goal of reaching the United States before the November elections. The follow-on group, formed by hundreds of people, started its long journey on July 21. As the presidential...

A new migrant caravan has left southern Mexico and is headed to the U.S. border

U.S. authorities are conducting a search for Verónica Roblero Pivaral, a 25-year-old Mexican woman accused of leading an organization that trafficked thousands of migrants from multiple countries into the United States along with her husband. The Department of Justice (DoJ) filed charges against Roblero Pivaral and her husband, Abdul...

DOJ in search of Mexican woman accused of smuggling thousands of migrants into the U.S.

Mexican authorities found last week a suspected drug-smuggling tunnel in Tijuana so deep that they haven't been able to find the exit point due to a lack of oxygen tanks. While the discovery garnered attention for being the first of the year, other similar constructions have been found by law enforcement throughout the years, some of them also featuring similar lengths and depths. In fact, close to 20 tunnels have been found on California's border with Mexico since 2006, according to CBS News.

Pictured: a look inside alleged Tijuana drug smuggling tunnels after police find one too long to explore without oxygen tanks

Missouri State

Maryland Heights, MO

St. Louis rapper Nelly was arrested early Wednesday morning at the Hollywood Casino & Hotel St. Louis after Missouri State Highway Patrol officers said they found him with drugs when they arrested him for an active warrant out for his arrest. The rapper, whose birth name is Cornell Haynes II,...

Rapper Nelly arrested in Missouri on active warrant, found with drugs

Wisconsin State

Abbotsford, WI

Fox News

A Mexican illegal immigrant in the suspect in the horrific killing of two children and the attempted killing of a woman in Clark County, Wisconsin.

Mexican man charged with killing two children in Wisconsin is in US illegally

Seattle, WA

SEATTLE - The head of business chambers' federation in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas was killed just hours after giving television interviews complaining about drug cartel extortion. Julio Almanza was shot to death outside his offices in the city of Matamoros, just across the border city of Brownsville, Texas. "We...

Mexican business leader is killed in border town after complaining about cartel extorsions on TV

Georgia State

Van Zandt County, TX

(The Center Square) – A rural east Texas district attorney has described how the border crisis is impacting her community after two Chinese nationals were arrested on money laundering charges. Their arrest was not the first where “we have encountered Chinese nationals on the highway engaged in illegal activities....

Chinese nationals illegally in US arrested in east Texas for money laundering

Odessa, TX

DC News Now

A woman from Odessa, Texas, who said she and her boyfriend were about to have sex when a group of migrants got into their parked car is facing felony charges of assault on a federal agent.

Woman says migrants got into car while being intimate with friend

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked Guatemala on Friday for helping the nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence, but also minimized the violence that drove them there. In his first comments since the refugees fled earlier this...

Mexico's president downplays cartel violence that drove nearly 600 Mexicans into Guatemala

The Center Square

(The Center Square) – After his sister was raped and strangled to death by a Salvadoran who was illegally in the country, Maryland resident Michael Morin said former President Donald Trump called his family. They have still never heard from President Joe Biden, he said Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.
                “Last year, we lost my beloved sister Rachel,” he said. “She went for a walk in one of our family's favorite places. This beautiful trail was to us a safe place where we...

Family shares how sister was raped, murdered by Salvadoran 'gotaway'

New Mexico State

10 migrants were taken to shelters in Mexico after police found them aimlessly wandering along a highway close to the U.S. border. They had been released by kidnappers after a ransom was paid for them. The migrants are from Morocco and Sudan, and none of them spoke Spanish. They told...

Migrants found wandering in highway near the border after being tortured and held for ransom

NBC News

Mexico’s president called Donald Trump “a friend” Friday and said he would write to the former U.S. president to warn him against pledging to close the border or blaming migrants for bringing drugs into the United States. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called Trump, president from 2017...

Mexican president calls Donald Trump ‘a friend’ and says he’ll warn him against closing border

Alabama State

Blount County, AL

"Takedown" host Chris Hansen helped conduct a predator sting in late July that led to the arrest of five suspects accused of soliciting a minor for sex.

Chris Hansen’s Alabama ‘Takedown’ child predator sting captures 3 illegal immigrants: affects 'entire nation'

South Carolina State

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Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Jacksonville, FL

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Jacksonville Today

A former Jacksonville police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Josue Garriga III, 34, faces a mandatory penalty of 10 years to life in federal prison and must register as a sex offender. A sentencing date has not been set.

Former cop pleads guilty to enticing 17-year-old girl

Alameda, CA

Alameda Post

The unthinkable has happened. Again. A gunman has taken multiple lives. The difference this time? It happened here, in Alameda. We are an island, both physically and psychologically. I spend a lot of time explaining to people that our focus is Alameda, and Alameda alone, so our coverage doesn’t usually include stories as horrific as this one.

It Happened Again. Here.

Laura Strickler, Didi Martinez, Chloe Atkins and Julia Ainsley. Two former officials who handled immigration issues for then-President Donald Trump say that a "whole of government" approach costing billions would be needed to mount the "largest deportation effort in American history" promised in the Republican convention platform if Trump is re-elected.

How would mass deportation of migrants under Trump actually work?

Savannah, GA

Daily Coffee Press

Newly returned indictments in the Southern District of Georgia include felony charges for illegal firearms possession and drug distribution, while additional defendants have been sentenced to federal prison or await further proceedings after pleading guilty to federal gun charges.

Federal Charges in Southern GA: Indictments and Sentences for Firearms and Drug Offenses

Berkeley, CA

Police are looking for a suspect who reportedly opened fire at the University of California, Berkeley on Thursday morning, the school announced. The UC Berkeley Police Department responded to a report of gunshots at 7:40 a.m. at the university’s Clark Kerr and Hill campuses. Local media outlets said the shots were reported near the campus track.

Gunshots reported at UC Berkeley campus, no injuries reported

NewsBreak

Three human traffickers to stand trial in northern Laos

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Two Chinese nationals and a Lao woman arrested earlier this year on...

Three human traffickers to stand trial in northern Laos

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