/PRNewswire/ The Washington Football Team today announced Dr. Barbara Roberts, a highly-regarded psychologist, as the team s first full-time Director of.
Homicides across major U.S. cities were 30 percent higher in 2020 than in 2019, while communities in Central America, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and the Caribbean are consistently victimized by criminal organizations, street gangs and political violence making this the most homicidal region in the world.
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U.S. Attorney s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following announcement on May 19. Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced that Erie County has been officially designated as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy. Erie joins four other western Pennsylvania counties - Allegheny, Beaver, Washington, and Westmoreland - in receiving dedicated federal resources to coordinate federal, state and local governments to fight drug trafficking and abuse. Through this designation, Erie County will receive critical resources and support to disrupt and dismantle major drug trafficking organizations operating in the county, said Acting U.S. Attorney Kaufman.
Pedestrians walk past the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, California on October 16, 2020, a day after former Mexican Secretary of Defense Salvador Cienfuegos was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport at the request of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images
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A senior Drug Enforcement Administration official told NPR efforts to target drug cartels operating inside Mexico have unraveled because of a breakdown in cooperation between law enforcement agencies and militaries in the two countries. We re willing to share [intelligence] with our counterparts in Mexico but they themselves are too afraid to even engage with us because of repercussions from their own government if they get caught working with DEA, said Matthew Donahue, the DEA s deputy chief of operations.