Tag: DC-9

  • Free press in U.S. vs Mexico: Que es mas macho?

    Free press in U.S. vs Mexico: Que es mas macho?

      Three Mexican journalists—each a woman who has spent years living with the real possibility that the death threats she regularly receives will one day result in a slow, gruesome death—heroically continue to report the truth about the drug war in their country that no mainstream American journalist has the balls to report about the drug war in ours:…

  • True Detective: Chicago, El Chapo, & Vince Vaughn’s Mom

    True Detective: Chicago, El Chapo, & Vince Vaughn’s Mom

    Actor Vince Vaughn, in the news for his starring role in HBO’s True Detective and recent controversial statements advocating more guns in schools, now has a new source of notoriety guaranteed to keep him in face time: his family. Vaughn’s mother, Sharon Vaughn, a sparkling and vivacious Chicagoland socialite, and his step-father, Stephen Ferrone, a…

  • DC-9 ‘Cocaine One’ kingpin’s secret conviction

    It was the biggest drug seizure on an airplane in Mexican history. It led directly to the forced sale of Wachovia, then America's 4th largest bank. And it threatened to become America’s most notorious drug scandal since Iran Contra. Yet when a leader of the drug smuggling organization responsible for the flight of the DC-9…

  • The San Diego DEA’s Dirty Secret

    If the San Diego DEA is looking for suspects with more than a little bit of coke dust sticking to their lapels or a few marijuana seeds in a car ashtray, we’d like to help. Nine college students got together on a Friday night recently in an off-campus apartment in San Diego to commemorate a…