
Authorities have arrested the tax collector and three employees from this border county on multiple bribery, engaging in organized criminal activity, and official oppression charges. As with the multiple recent corruption cases along the border, the public officials have ties to the Democratic Party.
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Jan 2016, 6:03 AM PST0

A city councilman from the border city of Crystal City is facing human smuggling charges after federal agents allegedly found three illegal aliens in his truck.
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Jan 2016, 5:53 AM PST0

An illegal alien from Mexico is accused of attacking a U.S. Border Patrol agent by punching him, biting him and beating him with a baton. The man even tried to reach for the agent’s locked rifle from his SUV.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jan 2016, 7:29 AM PST0

A member of a Texas border militia has been sentenced to prison on federal weapons charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The militia had been patrolling a property on the banks of the Rio Grande trying to turn back human smugglers and drug traffickers.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jan 2016, 6:54 AM PST0

Authorities continue to search for multiple gunmen in connection with a home invasion turned drug shootout that killed two men last month near this border city.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jan 2016, 5:47 AM PST0

An illegal alien has been arrested on accusations that he abused a 5-year-old girl during a New Year’s party in this border city.
by Ildefonso Ortiz5 Jan 2016, 6:52 AM PST0

A previously deported illegal alien who was arrested while entering the country illegally has pleaded guilty to possession of hundreds of images of child pornography.
by Ildefonso Ortiz5 Jan 2016, 6:29 AM PST0

Central American consular officials are crying foul over the immigration raids aimed at deporting illegal aliens who entered the country during the recent immigration crisis and already have court issued deportation orders.
by Ildefonso Ortiz4 Jan 2016, 6:31 AM PST0

A Brazilian man who had been previously deported after getting convicted of mail fraud and scamming airlines has been arrested in Texas for illegally coming back to America.
by Ildefonso Ortiz4 Jan 2016, 6:03 AM PST0

Mexican authorities arrested a teenager accused of taking part in a fake kidnapping scheme of an employee in order to fool a local businessman.
by Ildefonso Ortiz3 Jan 2016, 7:39 AM PST0

An American woman is believed to have been the leader of a robbery crew that had been preying on people who were traveling into Mexico as they drove through the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
by Ildefonso Ortiz31 Dec 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

Terror continues to take hold of this border city as the number of gruesome beheadings by the Los Zetas drug cartel continues to grow. Just days after Los Zetas had beheaded three informants and made a gory show of spreading their heads around the city, they have done it again.
by Ildefonso Ortiz30 Dec 2015, 8:10 AM PST0

A Mexican fisherman is accused of ramming a U.S. Coast Guard boat in an effort to elude capture and flee back to Mexico. The move resulted in one Coast Guard member being injured in the crash after the Mexican boat struck him.
by Ildefonso Ortiz30 Dec 2015, 7:16 AM PST0

Attorney’s representing a Honduran woman, her daughter and another underage girl are suing the U.S. government after a U.S. Border Patrol Agent raped them, tortured them and then left them for dead. Rather than be captured, the agent ended up killing himself.
by Ildefonso Ortiz30 Dec 2015, 6:38 AM PST0

A failed home invasion turned into a drug shootout near the border city of Mission, Texas, and left two gunmen dead as drug traffickers tried to steal a load of narcotics from a house — but the owners of the drugs fought back.
by Ildefonso Ortiz28 Dec 2015, 1:58 PM PST0

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — As another year comes to a close in Mexico, it has been filled with drug violence, controversy and crime. Rather than a decrease in drug crime, the country has begun to see escalating violence in places previously untouched. The sentiment expressed by many in this country is that widespread corruption is one of the main factors that continues to fuel raging violence.
by Ildefonso Ortiz27 Dec 2015, 8:14 AM PST0

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border state continue to look into a series of executions that recently shook this community. The gruesome murders remain unsolved. Piedras Negras sits immediately south of the Texas border city of Eagle Pass.
by Ildefonso Ortiz26 Dec 2015, 9:53 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — A Salvadoran illegal alien who brutally attacked a U.S. Border Patrol agent has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in federal court. The lesser charge carries a lesser sentence.
by Ildefonso Ortiz25 Dec 2015, 9:59 AM PST0

PALMVIEW, Texas –Two women were executed in Texas on a rural road near the U.S.-Mexico border. The motive appears to be a drug dispute in an area controlled by the Mexican Gulf cartel. The women remain unidentified by authorities, however, investigators believe the women are from Mexico.
by Ildefonso Ortiz21 Dec 2015, 8:14 AM PST0

A Santa Claus performer in Texas claiming to have a child pornography addiction is facing federal charges in connection with the downloading of explicit photos and videos–with some of the children depicted being as young as four-years-old.
by Ildefonso Ortiz20 Dec 2015, 10:27 AM PST0

An FBI operation into the Black Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords and Sipp Mob street gangs may provide some answers into the 2014 murder of a 19-year-old teen who was burned alive on a rural road in Mississippi.
by Ildefonso Ortiz20 Dec 2015, 10:02 AM PST0

Two Mexican newspapers and one air taxi service have been added to a list of individuals and businesses that the U.S. Department of Treasury has linked to drug cartels.
by Ildefonso Ortiz18 Dec 2015, 5:24 AM PST0

Uno de los periódicos más grandes de México ha marginado a un senador mexicano, quien es también uno de los principales candidatos a gobernador, como parte del Cártel del Golfo de México.
by Ildefonso Ortiz18 Dec 2015, 5:11 AM PST0

One of Mexico’s largest newspapers has outed a Mexican senator who is also one of the top gubernatorial candidates as having taken money from Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. He is currently one of the favored candidates for next year’s gubernatorial election in Tamaulipas, the Mexican state bordering Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and Laredo sectors.
by Ildefonso Ortiz18 Dec 2015, 3:59 AM PST0

A Mexican consul in Georgia has been recently cited for drunken driving and other traffic violations. However, because the Mexican consular official assigned to Atlanta, Georgia, has diplomatic immunity, local police were forced to let him go with a DUI ticket. He is not the first one.
by Ildefonso Ortiz17 Dec 2015, 7:10 AM PST0