January 8, 2015 Serafin Zambada, son of Sinaloa cartel leader, pleads guilty to drug charges in US The son of one of the world's most wanted drug lords has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in San Diego.
January 8, 2015 Federal officials: Mexican cartel laundered ransom money in fashion district in Los Angeles Authorities say a ransom paid for an American who delivered cocaine for a drug cartel led them to a scheme to launder drug money through businesses in the fashion district of Los Angeles.
January 8, 2015 Washington state man named as ringleader of Bakken drug ring gets 20 years prison A Montana judge has sentenced the leader of an interstate drug ring to 20 years in prison for his role in a trafficking operation that stretched from western Washington to the Bakken oil fields of the Northern Plains.
January 8, 2015 Canadian drug kingpin and top New York marijuana supplier dubbed Pot Playboy gets 27 years Prosecutors say a Canadian drug kingpin who was one of New York's biggest marijuana suppliers and was dubbed the Pot Playboy has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for leading a $1 billion international drug trafficking enterprise.
January 8, 2015 US Attorney: Federal grand jury indicts 3 cartel members in SC kidnapping case Three men affiliated with a Mexican drug cartel have been indicted on charges of kidnapping a South Carolina man and holding him for ransom for nearly a week in a dispute over $200,000 in marijuana, according to federal officials.
January 8, 2015 Man charged with kidnapping, assault at alleged drug cartel house in Minnesota pleads guilty One of the four men accused of keeping a "stash house" for a Mexican drug cartel in St. Paul has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
January 8, 2015 Jack W. Tocco, who federal authorities say was a Detroit mob boss, dies at 87 Jack W.
January 8, 2015 Son of former Philadelphia mob boss convicted of defrauding publicly traded company The son of a former Philadelphia mob boss has been convicted in a financial fraud trial.
January 8, 2015 Authorities: 17 indicted in New York probe of international drug ring, money laundering Authorities say 17 members of an international drug ring flooded parts of New York, Massachusetts and Ohio with several tons of a narcotic obtained from Yemen, Kenya and Ethiopia.
January 8, 2015 Alleged Calif. hitman pleads guilty to Alabama murder and is sentenced to 50 years in prison An alleged hitman charged in 11 killings in California and Florida has pleaded guilty to murder in Alabama.
