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29 Killed In Operation To Arrest Drug Kingpin EL Chapo’s Son
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29 Killed In Operation To Arrest Drug Kingpin EL Chapo’s Son

soldiers and 19 criminal suspects were killed in the operation to arrest Ovidio Guzman, son of jailed drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Mexican government said Friday. Ovidio Guzman, nicknamed "El Raton" (The Mouse), had allegedly helped to run his father's operations since El Chapo was extradited to the United States in 2017. The 32-year-old was rounded up Thursday in the northwestern city of Culiacan and flown to Mexico City on a military plane following six months of intelligence work to track him down, the government said. "Ten members of the military... unfortunately lost their lives in the line of duty," Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval told reporters, adding 19 "lawbreakers" were also killed in the operation. The United States had a reward of u...
A Suspect Was Arrested And Charged With the Murder Of Migos Rapper Takeoff
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A Suspect Was Arrested And Charged With the Murder Of Migos Rapper Takeoff

A 33-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection to Migos rapper Takeoff's death last month, the Houston Police Department announced Friday. Kirsnick Khari Ball, better known as Takeoff and one-third of the hip-hop group Migos, was shot and killed on Nov. 1 outside 810 Billiards and Bowling in downtown Houston. Takeoff was outside the bowling alley with about 30 other people, Sgt. Michael Burrow of the Houston Police Department said Friday, when an argument broke out over a "lucrative" dice game. Takeoff was not a part of the argument, Burrow said, adding that the rapper was an "innocent bystander." Troy Finner, Houston police chief, described Takeoff as being in "the wrong place at the wrong time." Police announced that they had arrested...