A Border Enforcement Task Force (BEST) team in Baltimore comprised of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized 332 pounds of cocaine in the port of Baltimore.

An organized crime group specialized in money laundering, whose members were active in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Morocco, has been dismantled.

The governments of the United States, Mexico and Guatemala formed a special body to fight drug trafficking and organized crime.

The National Drug Intelligence Center reported there were Mexican drug trafficking organizations active in more than 1,000 U.S. cities, but that depends on your definition of a cartel.

Rising prescription drug theft, especially of painkillers, lead the NYPD to implement new tracking procedures that will hopefully lead them to citywide stash locations.

A new 10,000-member security force would be deployed to the regions of Mexico with the most violence and instability.

Sensors attached to specially trained mice would detect the bio-signals sent at the sign of explosives or drugs.

Following a shooting in Mexico City International Airport in June, all 348 officers assigned to security details at the airport have been replaced.