Police officers in a small Arizona border city are on heightened alert following a tip that a Mexican drug cartel will put them in its crosshairs if they conduct off-duty busts.

The threat stems from a marijuana seizure made this month by two off-duty police officers riding on horseback in an unincorporated area east of Nogales, a city of roughly 20,000, Police Chief Jeffrey Kirkham told FoxNews.com.

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Der bisherige Tivoli Gardens Bewohner Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke wird jetzt von der Spanischen Stadtpolizei Station in St. Catherine festgehalten. Der Gesuchte wurde der Polizei von dem Pfarrer Al Miller ausgeliefert. Coke wollte sich selbst ausliefern um in dem Prozess sein Recht auf ein Auslieferungsanhörung wahrzunehmen.

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The Jamaican police have captured the once powerful gang leader, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, as he was on his way to surrender to the US embassy in Kingston weeks after leading a bloody urban battle to avoid deportation for trial to New York.

Coke appears to have wanted to hand himself in to the Americans out of concern for his safety after his father died in a mysterious prison cell fire that some Jamaicans believe was intended to prevent him talking in court about the close links between the island's criminal gangs and leading politicians.

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Russia hails Canada’s drive to stave off the Afghan drug trafficking – a topic that will be front and center during the upcoming G-20 summit in Toronto , presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko told reporters on Tuesday.

He praised Ottawa’s efforts aimed at involving more regional nations into a full-fledged dialogue on the matter, which he stressed is of paramount importance to Russia.

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The cultivation of the raw material for cocaine has declined significantly in Colombia, the world’s leading producer of coca, but the situation in Peru remains worrying with the amount of the narcotic grown there consistently rising, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported today.

Overall, crop surveys show the amount of coca grown in the four Andean countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru dropping by five per cent from 167,000 hectares in 2008 to 158,000 hectares in 2009, according to the agency.

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