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The Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell arrived at Naval Base San Diego on Monday morning with a very unique cargo — 28,000 pounds of cocaine seized in 18 different busts. The wholesale value of the haul? An estimated $423 million. -
An estimated 70 percent of smuggled methamphetamine enters the country through the San Diego Port of Entry. -
More than 22,000 people have gone missing in Mexico since the country declared war on drug traffickers in 2006. Some family members of the missing hoped to find answers at a body disposal site in Tijuana. But so far, they have only frustrated hopes. -
It is Central America's poorest country, but its kids aren't heading north like those in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras -
The city of Tijuana is trying to keep three singers of so-called "narco ballads" from performing at the city's annual fair. -
Fernando "El Ingeniero" Sanchez Arellano was arrested Monday afternoon by the Mexican Army, according to reports. -
Border patrol agents arrest four men and seize nearly $1 million worth of heroin, meth and cocaine last week. -
The U.S. Border Patrol intercepted two shipments of hard narcotics this week in San Diego. -
Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, has been indicted in San Diego and three other U.S. cities. After his arrest in February in Mexico, U.S. authorities began negotiating for his extradition. -
KPBS Midday EditionA University of San Diego report on drug violence in Mexico finds that homicides are down overall in the country, but the number of killings in Tijuana is up from 2012.
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