Cartel
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News, London Will Grant Mexico Correspondent Government of Mexico Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was previously arrested in San Simon in July 2022 Mexico has extradited 29 alleged drug cartel members to the United States – including high-profile gang leaders. Those extradited include notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero who has […]
CNN — Mexico has extradited notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero and 28 other fugitive cartel members to the United States, according to the US Department of Justice. Caro Quintero, considered by Mexican authorities to be the founder of the Guadalajara cartel . . .
A hiker was brutally attacked by “suspected cartel members” while exploring a wilderness area near the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego County, according to the U.S. Border Patrol El Centro Sector. Officials reported the incident happened around noon on Wednesday near the border of San Diego and Imperial counties when a group of US citizens […]
This undated file photo shows Fabio Ochoa Vasquez. AP/AP hide caption toggle caption AP/AP MIAMI — One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a U.S. prison and is expected to be deported back home. Records from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons show Fabio […]
MIAMI (AP) — One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a U.S. prison and is expected to be deported back home. Records from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons show Fabio Ochoa Vásquez was released Tuesday after completing 25 years of a 30-year prison […]
The United States has delivered a new blow to the financial structure of the Mexican criminal organization Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). The Treasury Department announced on Tuesday that it was including nine members of the Bonques Brothers, key allies of CJNG in the Mexican state of Nayarit, on the so-called “black list” of the […]
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel who is facing drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court, appeared for the first time Friday before the judge who is presiding over his case. Zambada, 76, appeared at a status conference in Brooklyn . . .
Item 1 of 3 Mexico’s former Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna sits before U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan where he was sentenced to more than 38 years in U.S. prison for accepting bribes from the drug cartels he was supposed to fight, in Brooklyn federal court in New York City, U.S., October 16, 2024 […]
CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed the United States in part on Thursday for the surge in cartel violence terrorizing the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least 30 people dead in the past week. Two warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel have clashed in the state capital […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who eluded authorities for decades was duped into flying into the U.S., where he was arrested alongside a son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, according to a U.S. law enforcement official familiar with the matter. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada got on an airplane to the U.S. […]