Washington, Jun 3 (EFE).- Statistics from 2012 show an increase in the rates of violent crime and crimes against property in the western half of the United States, the FBI said Monday. The FBI compiled the data from 18,000 local and state police stations, university campuses, Native American reservations and federal law enforcement institutions and found that, compared with 2011, last year the West had the highest rate of increase in reported violent crimes: 3.3 percent.

Fifteen undocumented migrants, including seven from India, have been arrested in Mexico, apparently hoping to illegally cross into the United States authorities said Sunday. Those detained at a hotel in Tapachula in the state of Chiapas also included five individuals from El Salvador and three from Honduras, according to the Interior Ministry. The arrests bring to 122 the number of people in the country illegally who were taken into custody in the past month on their way to the US-Mexico border, including dozens of people from India.

Mexico City, May 31 (EFE).- Mexican police detained 43 undocumented migrants and six people who were holding them at a home in the city of Ecatepec, the Mexico state Attorney General's Office said Friday. Police discovered "30 men from India, two Salvadoran men and 11 people from Honduras, including five women," the state AG's office said in a statement. The six Mexican nationals who appeared to be guarding the migrants were handed over to prosecutors on suspicion of human trafficking.

MONTREAL - The former head of Canada's spy-agency watchdog, who received prestigious appointments from different levels of government and was nearly honoured with a street in his name, has been arrested abroad on fraud charges. Arthur Porter has been detained by Panamanian authorities, along with his wife Pamela, several months after Quebec police announced they wanted to charge him in connection with the province's ongoing corruption scandals.