Die mexikanischen Streitkräfte haben einen 14-jährigen mutmaßlichen Auftragskiller eines Drogenkartells festgenommen, der offenbar an der Enthauptung von vier Männern beteiligt gewesen sein soll. Wie ein Sprecher der Streitkräfte mitteilte, wurde der unter dem Spitznamen "El Ponchis" bekannte Bub auf dem Flughafen in Cuernavaca gefasst, als er und seine Schwester in das in Nordmexiko gelegene Tijuana reisen wollten.

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In cargo pants and a T-shirt, the skinny, American-born 14-year-old looked like he should be in middle school. Instead he was surrounded by three armed Mexican soldiers in ski masks and camouflage as he told reporters that he helped a Mexican drug gang behead four people.

Mexican officials say they arrested the youth known as "El Ponchis" late Thursday at an airport south of Mexico City with a 19-year-old sister who is accused of helping him dump the bodies. Authorities said he was caught with two cellphones that held photographs of tortured victims.

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The glamorous Sandra Avila Beltran, alias "the Queen of the Pacific," allegedly Mexico's most famous woman drug trafficker, was acquitted of drug trafficking charges today by a federal judge in Mexico City due to a lack of evidence.

Sandra Avila Beltran was reputed to play a key public relations role for the Sinaloa cartel, headed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most wanted drug trafficker. Avila Beltran is said to have worked on various shipments of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico. She was arrested outside a restaurant in the San Jeronimo neighborhood of Mexico City in September 2007.

Avila Beltran, used to Chanel makeup and the best things money can buy - has been languishing in the Santa Marta Acatitla women's prison in Mexico City.

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted 19.1 kilogrammes of high grade cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, South-West Nigeria.

NDLEA’s Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, disclosed this morning that the drug, worth about N200 million, was imported from Brazil by suspected drug barons and abandoned at the Lagos airport on arrival.

Ofoyeju said that the traffickers abandoned the drug for fear of being caught by NDLEA officers who have increased surveillance on the Brazil route frequently used by Nigerian drug smugglers.

He said that the cocaine was packed in T-shirts and containers and arrived Nigeria aboard a Qatar Airways flight.

“About 11.6 kilogrammes of the drug was concealed inside T-shirts while 7.5 kilogrammes was hidden inside silicon containers."

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