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Police arrested a man at Dulles Airport on Thursday for trying to smuggle cocaine past security in powdered soup packets. According to the LaCrosse Tribune, customs dogs identified the man, who was traveling to El Salvador, as a suspect. This attempt, although creative, is far from the first imaginative drug-smuggling attempt. Check out a few other favorites: (more)

New Yorkers long ago stopped being fooled by the luxury knockoffs peddled from sidewalk card tables at prices too good to be true. Not that they always keep their wallet in check — as a close inspection of many a supposedly pedigreed Louis Vuitton handbag might reveal, if the penny-pinching owner would allow it. (more)

An annual State Department study released this week on human trafficking included a report on the modern slave trade within the United States for the first time, drawing praise from international human rights groups. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ten federal police officers were killed Monday after being attacked by unidentified gunmen near a vocational high school in western Mexico. (more)

The $125 million theft of five paintings by artists like Picasso and Matisse from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in May caught the attention of the world. But compared with the total annual trade in illicit goods, the heist was small change. (more)

They’ve disguised themselves as movers, mail couriers, repairmen and now, even lawmen. (more)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A Colombian model accused of luring pretty young Argentine women into smuggling cocaine to Mexico declared her innocence before a judge Thursday, while her lawyer called the evidence against her merely cosmetic. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The arrest of Cancun’s mayor on suspicion of protecting two violent drug gangs as he campaigned for governor has heightened fears that cartels are muscling their way into Mexican politics. There are also worries the gangs are tightening control over the country’s most important tourist resort. (more)

PHOENIX (AP) – An Arizona congresswoman says the Obama administration will announce that it will send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to improve border security. (more)

WINFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so pure it can kill unsuspecting users instantly, sometimes before they even remove the syringe from their veins. (more)

LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) — Two women have been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle crystal methamphetamine inside a Bible to a Walker man jailed in the Livingston Parish Detention Center. Sheriff’s deputies told The Advocate that a 28-year-old woman allegedly delivered a Bible containing methamphetamine to the detention center on May 12. They said a 35-year-old woman allegedly gave the drug-containing Bible to the jailed man. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mysterious disappearance of a former presidential candidate is stoking fear in Mexico that nobody may be safe from relentless kidnapping and rampant drug violence. (more)

MILAN, Italy, May 12 (UPI) — A former janitor at an Italian convent is accused of organizing visits to the location by South American drug smugglers disguised as pilgrims. (more)

PHOENIX — A proposed legal challenge to Arizona’s new immigration law took a hit Monday when the Phoenix city attorney said Mayor Phil Gordon doesn’t have the power to target the law without the support of the City Council. (more)

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities have captured 17 suspected illegal immigrants in southern Arizona as they continued their manhunt Saturday for smugglers who they say shot and wounded a sheriff’s deputy in a remote desert area 50 miles south of Phoenix. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Troops battled a suspected drug gang in a wealthy neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City and captured an alleged major trafficker with a $2 million U.S. bounty on his head, officials announced on Thursday. (more)

HOUSTON (AP) — A former Border Patrol agent who went to prison for shooting a fleeing drug smuggler wants a retrial. (more)

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — A severed human head and a flower have been found in front of the tomb of deceased drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva in northern Mexico. (more)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities on Saturday said they have captured a prominent Colombian drug trafficker wanted by the United States. (more)