Mexico is not planning to extradite to the United States captured drug lord Joaquin Guzman because he will first have to serve out jail time at home, an official at the federal attorney general's office said on Tuesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court opens on Monday a new term in which the nine justices will decide issues such as whether a Muslim prison inmate can have a beard and whether a man can be prosecuted for making threatening statements on Facebook.
Colombian authorities have arrested a Costa Rican man accused of trafficking shipments of cocaine to the United States on behalf of Mexico's infamous Sinaloa cartel.
Dr. Hector Castro, a New York City physician was charged with running an interstate smuggling ring that trafficked $10 million worth of oxycodone across several states, including in Pennsylvania, where the investigation resulted in the largest prescription drug-related mass arrest in the state's history.
