State Attorney General Tom Corbett said the arrests in Operation Pack Mule put an end to a $4.8 million drug smuggling organization that has been bringing high-purity drugs from South America to the Lehigh Valley for the past three years.

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Mexican federal police captured Teodoro García Simental, a drug trafficker famed for his gang's alleged brutality, in an early-morning raid on Tuesday in the resort town of La Paz, Baja California, police said.

The arrest of Mr. García, known as "El Teo," is the second big blow to Mexican drug gangs in less than a month. In December, drug lord Arturo Beltrán Leyva was killed in a raid by Mexican Navy special forces. Mr. Beltran was the highest-ranking drug lord taken down by Mexico since 2003.

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Two people have been taken into custody by police after 12 kilos of heroin were discovered in the fuel tank of a car intercepted in Tui, Pontevedra, in Galicia. Officers found 21 packages of the drug floating in the tank when they inspected the vehicle.

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The Taliban make Afghanistan's opium business easy, offering credit, seeds and fertilizer to farmers to grow the drugs that fuel the insurgency.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who wrapped up a three-day visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, is determined to change that momentum by offering similar incentives to steer farmers away from the drug trade and toward grapes, wheat and other legitimate crops.

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