Dissociation & Fragmented personality disorders

 driver was wearing a deputy's uniform and swore he was a real law officer. But to the Border Patrol agents manning a checkpoint here, something looked funny about the pickup with Webb County sheriff decals. So the agents called the dispatcher and found all the sheriff's vehicles were accounted for. When they pulled the driver over, they discovered he was an impostor — with a thousand pounds of marijuana in the cab. With growing boldness, drug gangs and smuggling organizations on both sides of the border are disguising their couriers and assassins in phony uniforms and vehicles, passing them off as mail handlers and oil-field workers, or even Mexican soldiers and Texas sheriffs. The traffickers have been caught hauling marijuana along the Texas border in fake versions of a Wal-Mart truck or FedEx van. They've employed sham school buses, dummy dump trucks and bogus ambulances. Law-enforcement officials call them "cloners," and they are increasingly the vehicles of ...

Saudi Arabia has rounded up 210 suspected drug smugglers in a series of raids since mid-June in which three security officers were killed, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Security forces carried out 18 raids across the conservative Muslim country, killing two smugglers and seizing drugs with a street value of 330 million riyals ($88 million), said the spokesman, who was quoted by the official SPA news agency. Drugs confiscated in the three-month raids included nearly ten million stimulant pills and 6.4 tonnes of hashish. "Drugs are aimed at undermining the country's security in addition to the problem of terrorism," Abdullah al Yousef, undersecretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs, told state television. The spokesman said 113 of those arrested for the smuggling or possession of drugs were Saudis while most of the rest were Pakistanis, Yemenis, Syrians and Filipinos. The kingdom applies strict Islamic sharia laws, executing drug smugglers, murderers a...

Pace University student was shot to death Wednesday morning in the posh Financial District apartment he used to deal drugs, witnesses and police sources said. Investigators said Maximillion Moreno, 21, sold marijuana to a man and a woman at his tony 37th-floor apartment on Gold St. just after midnight, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The pot-seeking couple opened the door to leave and two men - one with a weapon - burst inside. A witness told police the suspects screamed, "Give me the stuff! Give me the stuff!" When Moreno refused to give up any money, the gunman pulled the trigger. "He fires once and the safety is on, so it just clicks," according to a police source. "He fired again and the gun went off." With a deafening roar, a single bullet hit Moreno in the left temple, sending the student crashing to the floor. The suspects ran from the apartment and escaped despite a brief confrontation in the hallway with an off-duty member of the Erie Cou...

Seven U.S. Postal Service workers in Puerto Rico have been indicted on charges they shipped thousands of parcels of heroin, cocaine and marijuana through the mail, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Wednesday. The mail carriers, who are among 20 people charged in the case, took advantage of their jobs to ship drugs between Puerto Rico, Texas, California and Arizona, according to a DEA statement. As a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico is a favored transit point for drugs from South America because once they arrive in this Caribbean island, they do not have to clear customs to reach the American mainland. Agents from the DEA and the postal service's Office of Inspector General were executing arrest warrants for the defendants in pre-dawn raids around the San Juan metropolitan area. The DEA investigation, named Operation Dirty Eagles, involved undercover agents who hired the mail carriers to ship parcels purportedly containing cocaine and heroin, according to the statement. The traffi...

Files from ASIO, police and anti-corruption agencies were reportedly discovered on September 10 in the home of a suspected criminal thought to be in a relationship with a former official from the Office of Police Integrity, raising fears of a breach of national security and crime intelligence. West Australian Premier Colin Barnett said yesterday the discovery was worrying, and the contents of the files would be looked into "very carefully". "It is concerning that crime figures seem to have been able to obtain confidential and secret files relating to policing," Mr Barnett said. Acting West Australian police commissioner Chris Dawson said yesterday his officers were liaising with Victoria Police about the confidential files. "Preliminary information received indicates the WA police documents found in Victoria are 12 to 13 years old," he said. "Information received from Victoria Police is that the person found in possession of the documents contends th...

Mexico arrests suspected drug lord - UPI.com: "One of the suspected leaders of a large Mexican drug cartel was arrested in Guadalajara, the Ministry of Public Security announced. Police in the western Mexican city arrested 44-year-old Margarito Soto Reyes Saturday, along with eight other suspects who were with him, El Universal reported. Mexican and U.S. investigators allege Soto Reyes, known as 'The Tiger,' was a leader of the violent Sinaloa drug cartel that's suspected of sending as much as 1,000 pounds of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine into the United States every month, the BBC said. Investigators said it's thought Soto Reyes took over the senior position for the cartel in July, when former leader Ignacio Coronel was killed by police in a gunfight"

Six arrests part of larger drug investigation, say police: "Monday’s police raid that netted six arrests and snarled traffic for hours in Vancouver was part of a larger drug investigation, Mounties said. Members of the RCMP’s federal drug enforcement team were joined by Vancouver’s emergency police responders at a building at Hudson Street and 70th Avenue on Monday at about 2:30 p.m. Area bus riders faced delays of up to 45 minutes as officers blocked departures from a nearby Coast Mountain Bus Company depot. Police arrested six people related to a “very, very active” drug investigation, Const. Michael McLaughlin told The Province Tuesday. He could not provide further details. Those six were the first arrests made in the case, he said. No charges have been laid yet."

La Paz. El poderoso narcotraficante boliviano Marco Antonio Roca fue detenido en la región amazónica de Beni por la policía antidroga, según un comunicado de la Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico (Felcn). Marco Antonio Roca, alias el "presidente", había sido extraditado a Bolivia en 2005 desde Colombia para ser enjuiciado por tráfico de drogas, pero se había dado a la fuga y permanecía prófugo desde entonces, indica la nota. Un Juzgado boliviano lo declaró culpable en ausencia y lo sentenció a 16 años de cárcel. Agentes de la Felcn lo detuvieron el jueves 23 de septiembre en la ciudad de Trinidad, (noreste) luego de percatarse que pesaba en su contra un mandamiento de captura para cumplir su pena carcelaria. Roca -trasladado el viernes a la cárcel de Abra, en el departamento de Cochabamba (centro)- es catalogado por la Felcn como "un pez gordo", toda vez que fue vinculado con importantes clanes del narcotráfico en Bolivia y por haber purgado c...

In a small rural town of Chihuahua, the rule of law is a vague concept, and angry residents felt justified in killing two presumed kidnappers Tuesday. The two 17-year-olds, Raymundo Rascón Ortega and Andres Ramírez González, were part of a group of eight who had abducted 16-year-old Thelma Díaz Salazar from a seafood restaurant, state police said. Ascensión is a farming town 120 miles southwest of Juárez and close to the U.S. border with New Mexico. The town had been the scene of a rash of kidnappings in the past few months. In the past, Ascensión residents had banded together to raise ransom money. On Tuesday, they banded together to get revenge. The kidnapped girl's aunt, Maricruz Salazar, said the group had been carrying out at least three kidnappings a week for months. People of Ascensión knew the kidnappers because they were members of the small community. "We are a town in so much distress," Salazar said. "We are sick of the kidnappings." ...