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Jun 16 2008

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Alfredo Beltran Leyva
Drug arrest
Osiel Cardenas Guillen
Shattered window
Marijuana
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The Border of Insanity
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, a top deputy in the Sinaloa cartel, during his arrest in January.
Mass Arrest
Alleged cartel members who were captured, along with a huge cache of high-powered weapons, during a raid in Mexico City in January.
Extradition
Gulf cartel leader Ostel Cárdenas Guillén during his extradition to the U.S. in January 2007.
Shattered
The bullet-pocked windshield of a Nuevo Laredo deputy thought to have been killed by drug dealers.
Marijuana
Marijuana seized near the border in Hudspeth County, Texas, in January 2006.

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