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Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.

A "cross-dressing" Jamaican drug lord extradited to New York after a month-long gun battle with police that killed at least 70 people has asked for leniency in a letter that begins, "Good day to you, Sir," and cites his support of community jamborees and holiday treats for the elderly.

A woman is facing felony charges for allegedly hiding methamphetamine inside a Bible that she attempted to leave for an inmate at an Indiana county jail.

It was a bad week for drug dealing in New York City, the police commissioner said. Since Monday, 140 people across the city have been busted for trafficking and violence after four long-term investigations wrapped up with officers decimating gang ranks and drug rings, and seizing a cache of heroin and cocaine, cash and illegal weapons, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Friday.

An upstate New York man has admitted conspiring in a coast-to-coast marijuana smuggling ring that included a former world mountain biking champion.