Mexico's bloody drug war escalated this week in the western states of Nayarit and Michoacán, raising fresh fears that large swaths of Mexico have descended into lawlessness.

Gunfights between rival drug gangs left 29 dead in Nayarit Wednesday, according to the AP. Police found the bodies, all male and dressed in fake military uniforms, along the highway around 14 bullet-ridden trucks and SUVs.The fight was apparently a battle between the powerful Sinaloa Cartel - which has long been active in Nayarit - and Los Zetas, a violent paramilitary gang.In nearby Michoacán state, three days of gun battles forced hundreds of people...

Druglord 'El Chapo' Moves Operations to Argentina

Quoting an anonymous source in the Argentine government, Noticias Argentinas said that Guzman began living in the country with his wife and stepdaughter in 2010. The fugitive only moved on early this year after being alerted that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was pursuing an arrest order, according to the report, traveling to Paraguay, Colombia, and then Europe.“It is believed that he used a new false identity,” the official said. “But...

Dhian Thapar was gunned down outside his Whitby home after taking over a popular South Asian TV show whose host had been shot and killed.

Dhian Thapar was gunned down outside his Whitby home after taking over a popular South Asian TV show whose host had been shot and killed.But like the murder nine months earlier of Prithyi Vij in Toronto, police have made no arrests in Thapar’s Feb. 22, 1992 killing.Both murders were execution-style.Durham Regional Police appealed for help again recently to solve the killing of the wealthy dentist and father-of-three who owned several Metro businesses,...

The White Rock chapter of the Hells Angels supplied marijuana and muscle to a multimillion-dollar cross-border drug-smuggling ring

The White Rock chapter of the Hells Angels supplied marijuana and muscle to a multimillion-dollar cross-border drug-smuggling ring in which 22 people have so far been charged, U.S. court documents allege.U.S. law enforcement agents allege Hells Angel associate Trevor Jones was the Canadian "boss" of the drug ring alleged to have distributed up to a tonne of pot and 200 kilograms of cocaine a month for several years.The ring was broken up last month...

Detectives will question Britain's most feared gangster over the unsolved murders of two of his associates 13 years ago.

Convicted crime godfather Terry Adams, 56, will be asked about the assassination of Saul "Solly" Nahome and the disappearance of Gilbert Wynter in 1998.Scotland Yard has announced a new inquiry into the two suspected "hits" and linked the deaths for the first time.The men knew each other and worked for the north London-based Adams crime syndicate which is said to have amassed a £200 million fortune from racketeering and drugs trafficking.Mr Nahome,...

Police in Arizona have arrested 25 suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel,

Police in Arizona have arrested 25 suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel, significantly hampering the group's ability to smuggle drugs and illegal immigrants from Mexico, authorities said on Thursday.The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said the suspects -- believed to be members of the Jesus Valencia-Rodgriguez cell of the powerful Sinaloa cartel -- smuggled drugs and undocumented immigrants through the remote Tohono O'odham Indian Nation...