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February 21, 2012
Julio Cesar Perez-Arellano and Tomas Agustin Della Rocca Held in $4 Million Cocaine Bust
An investigative trail (or line?) led a Riverside-based coalition of drug enforcement cops to an empty house in the 23300 block of Red Robin Lane in Lake Forest--and 88 pounds of cocaine with a street value pegged at $4 million.It also led to the arrests of Julio Cesar Perez-Arellano of Aliso Vie ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
Obama Airspace Crashing Cessna Carrying 40 Pounds of Weed
Note to marijuana smugglers: If you're going to haul 40 pounds of weed into Southern California in your private airplane, you might want to do that on the 364 other days of the year when President Barack Obama isn't using the same airspace. Apparently the San Luis Obispo man who went un ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Meichun Cheng Huang, Irvine Toy Executive, Gets Prison Time for Laundering Drug Money
Angel Toy Co.The company literature says Angel Toy Co. distributes teddy bears and other stuffed animals around the world.According to the sentences handed down today, sisters Ling Yu of Arcadia and Meichun Cheng Huang of Irvine are spending the next three years in federal prison for using t ... More >>
Columns
December 15, 2011
Were the Conquistadors the Original Cartels?
[¡Ask a Mexican!!] And why do some Mexicans identify with them?
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Captain America Brand Weed Seized in Major Cross-Border Tunnel Raid
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security agents seized 17 tons of marijuana Nov. 15, when they discovered a tunnel that appears to be one of the largest cross-border smuggling operations in recent years. According to an Associated Press story on the bust, the tunnel was some 400 yards long and stretched b ... More >>
Columns
July 14, 2011
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security agents seized 17 tons of marijuana Nov. 15, when they discovered a tunnel that appears to be one of the largest cross-border smuggling operations in recent years. According to an Associated Press story on the bust, the tunnel was some 400 yards long and stretched b ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2011
Legalize Pot, Say Geniuses at Global Commission on Drug Policy
The Los Angeles Times, and just about every other newspaper that covers world news, is reporting today that the Global Commission on Drug Policy, an influential think-tank made up of world leaders, has just issued a report calling the war on drugs "a costly failure" and calling on the United Stat ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2011
8 Murders a Day, Opening Friday, Explores "Greatest Human-Rights Disaster in the World Today"
A documentary opening Friday in Fullerton explores the drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon took office in December, 2006.8 Murders a Day focuses mostly on Juarez, Mexico, the murder capital of the world or, as producer-director Charlie Minn's puts it, "the greatest hum ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2011
Pot Smuggling Boat Washes Up on Dana Point Beach
A boat containing 740 pounds of marijuana was discovered on Monday, at approximately 6 a.m., but so far nobody has come to claim the haul, leaving experts guessing that it was most likely a Mexican cartel smuggling operation gone awry.The first clue: The boat was heading north whenever its occupa ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
Midwest Troopers Scoop Up OC Drug Runners (and Alleged Drug Runners) Along I-80
State troopers in the Midwest are discovering a common thread among drug mules and alleged drug mules pulled over along Interstate 80: Orange County residency.Check out our lineup after the jump . . .
Blogs
October 12, 2010
Prop 19 Passage May Negatively Affect Mexican Drug Traffickers in Unforeseen Ways
Mexico's drug traffickers would lose some customers but not much money if California voters approve the marijuana-legalizing Prop 19 on Nov. 2, concludes a study by the nonpartisan RAND Drug Policy Research Center. That's because Californians mostly grow their own already.
News
September 23, 2010
Pinalcchio
Renowned forensics experts say a Pinal County, Arizona, deputy's high-profile tale about getting shot after encountering drug smugglers doesn't add up
News
August 26, 2010
Asylum Denied
Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.
News
August 12, 2010
Seized
Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital
Blogs
August 2, 2010
Barbara Coes Calls for the Deportation of Muslims, Says Muslims Train Mexican Drug Cartels
Coe, in center, with a fool and a deluded guyCalifornia Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe has been on a non-Mexican racist run as of late. We talked about the revelation earlier this week that she told a Los Angeles Times reporter, "Go home, chink" nearly 20 years ago; now, in var ... More >>
News
June 17, 2010
Killing for the Cartel
Police believe East LA high-school dropout Jose Saenz has killed a good friend and the mother of his daughter
News
June 10, 2010
Cowboy Down
Rob Krentz's Family Talks About the Life and Death of the Murdered Arizona Rancher
News
June 3, 2010
Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border
Tougher border enforcement in California and Texas has spelled disaster for southern Arizona
Blogs
May 28, 2010
[UPDATED:] Meet the Director of the Best Hasdic Jew Pill Pusher Movie Out There
UPDATE: See details about the "Holy Rollers" article that likely spurred the Holy Rollers movie--and the article's zero degrees of separation from OC Weekly--after the jump . . . Yosef (Justin Bartha, left) eases Sam (Jesse Eisenberg) into drug trafficking in Holy Rollers.Director Kevin Asch, who ... More >>
Music
April 29, 2010
NarcoTunes
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, this is your Mexican regional music on drugs
Blogs
November 7, 2008
Doozy of the Day at The Sheriff Mike Carona Corruption Trial
"I'm the sheriff. I can do whatever I want." --Prior to his arrest on federal bribery charges, Mike Carona confided his view of the world to a law enforcement colleague concerned about the Orange County sheriff's close friendship with Ed Grech, a local businessman whom the FBI had secretly recorded ... More >>
News
June 14, 2007
Hero or Heroin?
Alleged coup-plotter Vang Paos shady past eludes mainstream media
Features
July 7, 2005
Lords of Acid
How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Became OCs Hippie Mafia
News
February 17, 2005
Dead End
Feds deny connection between CIA and ex-Laguna Beach cop and drug dealer. So why are his files secret?
News
December 16, 2004
Kill the Messenger
Gary Webb, 1955-2004
Film
April 10, 2003
Final Act
Harris shines in his last role
Features
July 19, 2001
Crack Cop
FBI documents link an ex-Laguna cop and drug runner to an Irvine executive with ties to the CIA
Features
July 5, 2001
True Lies?
Ken Bucchi says he was a drug-running spook. The CIA says hes an impostor

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