The grandfather of a 6-year-old boy who was abducted for four days was due in federal court Monday to face a racketeering charge, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

More than 20 people have been indicted on drug charges in connection with an investigation, dubbed "Operation Dirty Laundry" by the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office, into suspected cocaine dealing in North ...

A U.S. military spokesman says Afghan and coalition troops have seized 40 tons of hashish during a raid in southern Afghanistan.

Lt. Cmdr. Walter Matthews says the drugs were found during the Monday raid in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province.

Border police commander Abdul Raziq says the drugs were found in the basement of a compound in Nawa Kili village. He says American military helicopters were used during the raid.

Afghanistan is the world's largest producer of opium, the main ingredient for the production of heroin. But the country also grows large quantities of cannabis, the plant used to produce hashish and marijuana.

Federal law enforcers says drug cartels could have plans to expand the kind of marijuana growing operations discovered in rural Utah this year.

Eleven policemen have been shot to death near Mexico City in a three-day string of drug-gang attacks, prosecutors said Sunday.

Mexico State prosecutor Alberto Bazbaz said 10 suspects believed linked to drug gangs have been arrested in the killings, which mainly occurred on highways and at police checkpoints in the state that loops around Mexico's capital. Some of the suspects were carrying rifles and grenades at the time of their arrest.

Bazbaz said that many of the suspects were from the neighboring state of Michoacan, a hotbed of drug violence dominated by a drug gang known as 'The Family.'