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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The capture of fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was hailed by U.S. authorities as an example of cooperation with Mexico in the fight against drugs. But in fact Caro Quintero had been the source of 37 years of tension between the two countries. Caro Quintero was one of the primary...
“There is no hiding place for anyone who kidnaps, tortures, and murders American law enforcement,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “Today’s arrest is the culmination of tireless work by DEA and their Mexican partners to bring Caro Quintero to justice for his alleged crimes, including the torture and execution of DEA...
One of the two illegal aliens accused of plotting a mass shooting on the Fourth of July is allegedly linked to a Mexican drug cartel, court records reveal. As Breitbart News reported, 52-year-old illegal alien Julio Alvardo Dubon and 38-year-old illegal alien Rolman Balacarcel Ac, both Guatemalan nationals, were arrested by the Richmond Police Department for...
A man who identified himself in a video as the leader of Mexico's most powerful cartel is inviting his rival organizations to wage war against his criminal structure instead of targeting innocent priests and civilian workers. Footage uploaded to social media over the weekend showed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera urging...
A newly-elected Texas Congresswoman is calling for the defunding of the Mexican cartels effectively in control of the U.S. southwestern border. “We need to defund the cartels,” U.S. Congresswoman Mayra Flores said during an exclusive interview in Spanish with Breitbart News, where she talked about how criminal organizations from Mexico are the only ones benefiting...
New York’s “No Bail” law, approved by statewide Democrats in 2019, has helped free from jail two Mexican drug cartel smugglers arrested with about $1.2 million worth of crystal meth. This week, the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York announced the arrests of 19-year-old Luis Estrada and 34-year-old Carlos...
A Mexican drug cartel blamed for the deaths of nine people has been ordered to pay over $4 billion in a ruling handed down by a federal magistrate judge in North Dakota. The $1.5 billion judgment, issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Clare Hochhalter, will be automatically tripled under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act, bringing the...
A fearsome narco-terrorist with a history of using car bombs managed to establish drug and human smuggling corridors on top of a lucrative fuel theft operation. The now-jailed crime lord tried to disguise his organization by claiming it was a “self-defense group” to protect local innocents from cartels. Known by the nicknames “El Tarzan and...
A Mexican drug cartel accused in the brutal slaughter of nine women and children from an offshoot Mormon community must pay $4.6 billion to the families, a federal judge from North Dakota ruled. The family members of the victims filed a lawsuit accusing the Juarez cartel of carrying out the November 2019 attack in Mexico...
One of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels posted a social media video where they asked other cartels in the country to keep the violence amongst themselves and to avoid hurting innocents, especially priests and pastors. The video comes just two weeks after a cell of the Sinaloa Cartel murdered two Catholic priests inside a church...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Mexican drug cartel accused in the gruesome killings of nine women and children from an offshoot Mormon community must pay $1.5 billion to the families, a federal judge from North Dakota ruled. The family members of the victims filed a lawsuit accusing the Juarez cartel of carrying out the November...
Mexican state authorities arrested a fearsome narco-terrorist who had been linked in the past to car bombs. He is also the leader of a Gulf Cartel faction masquerading as a self-defense group. The arrest took place in the Monterrey metropolitan area, where Tamaulipas state police and the Nuevo Leon Attorney General captured Octavio “El Profe...
Mexico’s military clashed with gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel in a fierce battle over the weekend. They terrorized a town in an attempt to rescue a detained cell leader. The incident took place Saturday in Altar, Sonora, where military arrested Francisco “El Duranguillo” Torres Carranza, the leader of the Delta Group of the Gente Nueva...
A Mexican soldier was killed in a training exercise in 2020, Mexico’s Human Rights Commission (CNDH) revealed. The case took place during a training exercise in Baja California in November 2020. The CNDH got involved when surviving relatives filed a complaint because they were never informed about how the soldier died. The investigation revealed that...
A Mexican border state prosecutor faces drug trafficking charges after U.S. authorities reportedly found more than 66 pounds of meth in his vehicle when he tried to drive into California. Last week, Octavio Andree Espino Torres tried to drive a 2016 Nissan Versa through the international port of entry in San Ysidro, a criminal complaint...
A MEXICAN cartel has slaughtered two priests inside a church after they allegedly prevented the drug traffickers from killing a man in their sanctuary. Mexican authorities said on Tuesday June 26 that they are searching for the bodies of the three people slain in the church in Cerocahui in Chihuahua state - a remote mountainous...
Catholics are demanding the return of the bodies of two priests who were murdered after attempting to prevent drug traffickers from killing a man inside their church. "It is with great sadness and pain that we mourn Father Javier Campos Morales, Father Joaquin Mora Salazar, and the man who, unfortunately, lost his life along...
Cartel gunmen murdered two Jesuit priests who tried to protect another man from being killed in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua. The gunmen then stole the priests’ bodies. The murder took place on Monday evening in Cerocahui, Chihuahua. According to the Jesuit Order in Mexico, a victim was running away from gunmen and sought...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) sparked controversy this week when he said that areas controlled by a cartel have fewer murders. Critics claimed the statement was another example of the national leader’s soft approach toward organized crime. This week, Lopez Obrador claimed that there were regions where one “group” was in control and...
A monkey in a small camouflage jacket and a diaper was among the dead following a cartel-related shootout Tuesday that left 11 people dead in Mexico. The shooting took place in the city of Texcaltitlan in the state of Mexico during a confrontation between members of the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel and...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican narcos’ fascination with exotic animals was on display this week after a spider monkey dressed up as a drug gang mascot was killed in a shootout, a 450-pound (200 kilogram) tiger wandered the streets in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, and a man died after trying to pet a...
Cartel gunmen tried to ambush a squad of Mexican military officers, setting off a fierce shootout where authorities killed 11 and arrested seven more. The shootout took place this week near the town of Texcaltitlán, Mexico State, about 78 miles south of Mexico City. Authorities were carrying out an operation targeting a member of La...
The governor of a Mexican state plagued with cartel violence for years is the nephew of a cartel boss and a cousin to another. Both face drug charges in a U.S court. Breitbart Texas obtained birth certificates confirming the familial relationships between the governor and the crime bosses. The politician has denied such familial connections...
A former U.S. marine who ran a drug-smuggling organization that worked with several Mexican drug cartels will now spend 16 years in prison. The former Marine conspired to smuggle at least 10 tons of cocaine into the US each month. This week, 50-year-old Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr., a former U.S. Marine, went before a U.S. District Court...
MEXICAN drug gangs behind years of brutal murders are now suspected of taking the life of an innocent Brit last Tuesday. Ben Crozer, 37, was shopping at a Mexican supermarket with two friends when all three were targeted by a gunman and shot dead in the Western city of Colima. 11Ben Corser appears to...
The Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels stand to possibly benefit from this weekend’s gubernatorial election in Tamaulipas, with particular respect for the border state’s sea and land ports of entry. A new report by Mexican journalist Raymundo Riva Palacio revealed that one of the candidates in the election, Americo Villarreal (ruling Morena Party) and his close...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. government announced sanctions Thursday against six people in Mexico, including a police official, for aiding the Jalisco drug cartel. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, says the police official gave information to Mexico’s most violent and powerful gang. The office...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- An accused drug cartel boss is locked up in Chicago on trafficking charges, but it is what he's not charged with that is the most brutal part of the case.Forty-three students in Mexico vanished back in 2014; their disappearance was tied to a blood-thirsty drug cartel known as the Guerreros Unidos. Even...
The Texas gun store where the Uvalde school shooter purchased his rifles previously sold 10,000 rounds of ammunition to a smuggler, who intended to transport it across the border to a Mexican cartel. Oasis Outback, based in the city, received Salvador Ramos's online order from Georgia-based seller Daniel Defense. The 18-year-old purchased a Smith &...
Eleven people were killed and five others were wounded after gang members launched simultaneous attacks at a hotel and two bars in search of members of a rival cartel in Mexico. Witnesses told authorities that about 15 armed men stepped out of several vehicles and started shooting at the three businesses around 10pm Monday in...
The latest setback to U.S. anti-narcotics efforts in Mexico came earlier this month, when the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was forced to remove its flagship plane from the country for the first time in some 30 years. According to a report by Reuters, Mexican officials revoked the plane’s parking space in a hangar at the...
Federal authorities arrested a cartel member who was at one point wanted in connection to the murder of a Mexican politician. While the suspect’s involvement has since been ruled out, the man is linked to at least another murder in Mexico and has previously been deported from the U.S. U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Jesus Botello...
A top-ranking Mexican drug lord who at one time headed the Gulf Cartel and is believed responsible for moving large shipments of cocaine into Houston, Texas, was extradited Thursday to face a U.S. judge. Known in the criminal underworld as “Metro 1”, “M1”, “Gordo” or “Señor Gordo”, Mario Cárdenas Guillén is a brother of the...
Wilkins said the amount of drugs flowing through upstate South Carolina is at the highest level he's ever seen. “It is much more significant," he said. "There’s much more volume flowing into our communities. It’s much more organized, as seen in this case. Thousands of kilos of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine were pumping into Greenville...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sparked controversy for defending his country’s soldiers after a video showed them retreating from a convoy of cartel members. The president claimed the escape protected the lives of cartel gunmen. The issue began this week when Mexico’s military announced operations in Michoacan. Hours later, a video became viral showing...
A Mexican border state governor and the attorney general are clashing over controversies stemming from female homicides in the region. “The AGs office is tasked with investigating the cause of the women’s violent death,” said Nuevo Leon Attorney General Gustavo Adolfo Guerrero during a video message responding to state governor Samuel Garcia. “And you, mister...
The burnt body of a Mexican soccer star was discovered in the trunk of his vehicle which was engulfed in flames, authorities have revealed. Firefighters responding to an emergency call found the body of Antonio 'Hulk' Salazar, 33, in his Chevrolet Cavalier in Tonalá, Jalisco, on Sunday. Red Cross paramedics were initially unable to determine...
A trio from Nashville pleaded guilty to smuggling millions of dollars worth of fentanyl and heroin into Texas and then on to several U.S. cities for a Mexican drug cartel. The group moved multiple drug loads from the border region to their final destination in Tennessee before being arrested by authorities last year. This week,...
JASPER, Georgia – Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake told The Georgia Star News she plans to secure the southern border of the United States with her “Defend Arizona” policy, which includes the destruction of drug tunnels and surveillance drones used by Mexican drug cartels. The Republican frontrunner traveled to Georgia on Thursday to support David...
A Mexican judge sentenced 18 members of Los Zetas cartel to various prison terms for their roles in a 2010 massacre that left at least 193 victims dead and their bodies buried in 47 mass graves. This week, the Second Federal District Judge in Ciudad Victoria handed down sentences to the 18 cartel members. The...
Gulf Cartel gunmen killed one female Mexican state police officer and injured another in a shootout during a kidnapping bust, just miles south of the Texas border. The abduction was tied to the smuggling of migrants into the U.S. The shootout took place on Sunday afternoon on the south side of Reynosa, where Tamaulipas police...
The alleged cell leader of a power cartel has been captured by the Mexican navy in resort city of Mazatlán. Francisco Rodríguez, who is also known as 'El Señorón' among other aliases, was taken into custody in front of a high-end condominium Friday. Rodríguez allegedly oversaw the Jalisco New Generation Cartel's operations in the central...
Gunmen tied to the Sinaloa Cartel hung a banner accusing a Mexican border state governor of working for their rivals and threatened further violence unless one of their leaders is released from prison. The threat follows four related murders and one apparent kidnapping. Authorities reported finding the banner in Mexicali, Baja California, where a cartel...
A top commander with one of Mexico’s most violent cartels died over the weekend after a shootout with authorities. The cartel figure is one of several named in the investigation of the December 2020 assassination of former Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval. The deadly shootout took place in the beach resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco....
A cartel hitman died over the weekend in a Mexican border state when his cellmate killed him with a makeshift shank. The man was awaiting trial for a mass killing targeting seven victims at a birthday party. The killing took place over the weekend at a Tamaulipas State Prison in Ciudad Victoria, law enforcement sources...
Mexican authorities stopped a human smuggling attempt featuring a passenger bus to move 54 migrants toward the Texas border. The case took place over the weekend in Altamira, Tamaulipas, where state police officers had set up a joint checkpoint with federal authorities. Police found 54 migrants, including 13 underage teens and children, a statement from...
Six men who allegedly worked for a Mexican cartel are facing possible life terms in prison if they are convicted on federal drug conspiracy charges. The men are accused of operating a cocaine smuggling cell based in south Texas. This week, a federal grand jury handed down a multi-count drug trafficking conspiracy indictment against Oscar Obed...
Mexican authorities detained five Honduran migrants trying to make their way north with fake travel documents. The case took place this week in the southwestern part of the state, near the town of Tula, Tamaulipas. The migrants were traveling in a passenger bus when they pulled up to a checkpoint. At the checkpoint, the five...
Although some of the trespassers are still being turned back under Title 42 for the time being, ICE is preparing to release 600,000 by September. Deane Dougherty, ICE’s juvenile coordinator, wrote in a court filing that he expects a “historic border surge, with projections forecasted to triple current arrivals” and expects to release 3,000 a...
A prominent South Texas attorney will spend nearly four years in federal prison for his role in selling information to Mexican cartel smugglers. This week, McAllen Attorney Eric Jarvis went before U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa, who sentenced him to three years and eight months in prison on the charge of “violating the Travel Act”...
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