In a span of seven years, Veracruz authorities found 343 clandestine mass graves as part of investigations into thousands of individuals listed as missing. The sites are believed linked to cartel gunmen.
Officials in Georgia arrested an MS-13 member in connection with a drive-by shooting. The defendant, Walter Alex Flores-Sanchez, aka “El Adicto” (Spanish for “the Addict”) is an illegal alien.
U.S. Customs officers arrested a Mexican woman who allegedly smuggled 48 pounds of marijuana under and around the car seats of five children.
Two suspected cartel gunmen dressed in fake police uniforms were found murdered in a cloned police vehicle in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
Federal officers arrested 86 illegal aliens with criminal histories or immigration violations in North Texas and Oklahoma during a targeted, three-day operation.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Policías estatales encontraron un cohete que se sospecha es de manufactura Rusa durante una revisión de vehículo donde también encontraron droga para narco-menudeo y una pistola.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — State police officers found a Russian RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) during a traffic stop as part of an enforcement operation targeting street-level dealers in this border state. Authorities also seized some drugs and a handgun.
In a span of seven years, Veracruz authorities found 343 clandestine mass graves as part of investigations into thousands of individuals listed as missing. The sites are believed linked to cartel gunmen.
Members of the Austin City Council are proposing a resolution to stop doing business with contractors involved in building President Trump’s proposed border wall.
Governor Greg Abbott requested a “full and thorough investigation” Tuesday into allegations that women athletes endured sexual abuse at the famed Karolyi Ranch, the Texas-based former national training center for USA Gymnastics.
Investigators in a Texas border county arrested an employee of the local school district for allegedly filling out applications illegally for other voters. The arrest is part of a crackdown on voter fraud in Starr County.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents plan to utilize license plate readers to find illegal immigrants. Police agencies throughout the U.S. use the systems to apprehend fugitives who have escaped justice, but open borders and amnesty activists are up in arms over the increased enforcement step.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients were arrested in two separate incidents of human smuggling operations in California over the course of two days last week.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — An illegal alien pleaded guilty to federal human smuggling charges for his role in helping a group of active U.S. soldiers from Fort Hood move migrants into Texas.
A Texas teacher faces felony charges for allegedly performing oral sex on a sleeping student and filming the encounter on a cell phone after providing beer to the purported teenage victim, say Harris County officials.
Texas banking regulators booted a so-called cryptocurrency “bank” from operating in the Lone Star State as such, saying the entity violated regulations and mislead people to believe it performed as a traditional financial institution.
Immigration officials released more than 100,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) apprehended at the border into the U.S. interior since Fiscal Year 2016. White House officials state that many of the family members of these minors–mostly from Central America–paid criminal organizations to smuggle their children to the United States.
Human smugglers operating in the border city of Laredo stuffed 76 illegal immigrants into the cargo area of a tractor-trailer in an attempt to get them past a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. The tactic appears to be gaining popularity but has led to multiple deaths as human smugglers find new ways to maneuver around authorities.
La violencia no se detiene en los negocios del popular centro turístico de Cancún donde el mes de Enero ha visto 30 ejecuciones relacionadas a la narco-violencia. En meses recientes el destino turístico de Cancun ha visto una escalada de violencia donde carteles rivales continúan peleando por control de la zona.
Violence at various businesses in Cancun has not slowed with at least 30 cartel-linked executions taking place in January.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Cuatro policías municipales de la ciudad de Saltillo han sido arrestados y enfrentan cargos por secuestro agravado. Los policías están acusados de usar su puesto para secuestrar y extorsionar a sus víctimas.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Four police officers from Saltillo were arrested and are facing aggravated kidnapping charges. Prosecutors say they used their badges to kidnap and extort innocent victims.
The beach resort city of Cancun continues to be a hotbed for violence after suspected cartel operatives attacked state police by tossing a grenade at a squad car in traffic.
The bodies of two teenage persons reported missing in 2015 in Midland, Texas, were potentially discovered on a tree farm, authorities announced Monday.
Mexico’s top law enforcement officer announced the deployment of thousands of police to Mexican beach resorts as cartel violence escalates. The move comes after Mexico experienced its bloodiest year ever with close to 25,000 murders in 2017 alone.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León — Un grupo de sicarios ingreso violentamente a un casa en un suburbio de esta zona metropolitana para ejecutar a 9 hombres que estaban reunidos. Las mujeres y niños fueron encerrados en un cuarto mientras que los sicarios ejecutaron a las víctimas a sangre fría.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — A team of hooded cartel gunmen barged into a suburban home of this metropolitan area to execute nine men at a party. The women and children were locked in a room while gunmen executed their victims.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Marinos Mexicanos lograron abatir a uno de los líderes del Cartel Del Golfo y a tres de sus guardaespaldas tras una fuerte balacera. Autoridades Mexicanas habían estado ofreciendo $2 millones de pesos por su captura.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Presuntos narcotraficantes que pertenecen al Cartel del Noreste fueron sorprendidos y detenidos por soldados mexicanos en los momentos en que bajaban un cargamento de mas de 600 kilos de marihuana que recién les había llegado.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Mexican marines have killed one of the top leaders of the Gulf Cartel and three of his bodyguards after an intense shootout. Mexican authorities were offering a $2 million pesos or approximately a $100,000 reward for his capture.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Suspected smugglers with the Cartel Del Noreste, the main faction of Los Zetas, were caught by Mexican soldiers as they were in the process of unloading a new shipment of more than 1,400 pounds of marijuana that they had just received.
