The estimated 5 million feral hogs currently laying waste to the American Countryside may have finally met their match in sodium nitrate, a chemical compound used to presereve bacon. The hybrid descendants of escaped domestic pigs and imported Eurasian boars, feral hogs cost the U.S. approximately $1.5 billion a year in damages. These massive, shaggy
Drug traffickers are disguising massive amounts of meth as a liquid to smuggle it into the US from Mexico. Dissolved in a solution, the meth is sealed in tequila bottles and detergent containers to fool border guards and the CHP. Once deep in California’s Central Valley, meth cooks convert it into crystal form. While the
Six rare monkeys dropped dead soon after their arrival at the Oregon Zoo, officials said on Friday. The six dead cotton top tamarins, an endangered species native to Central America, were in a group of nine of the tiny squirrel-like primates that arrived at the zoo on May 22. They were placed in quarantine at
Mexican security forces captured a man who has been tentatively identified as a commander of the Gulf Cartel in Reynosa, who controlled illegal trafficking of drugs, guns, and money as well as kidnapping of migrants in a frontier region bordering Texas. On Sunday, Federal Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido identified the suspect as Juan Manuel