
Gunmen acting under orders of a ruthless cartel executed one of Mexico’s star witnesses who played a key role in the prosecution of top capos in Mexico, including the leader of Los Zetas.
by Ildefonso Ortiz29 Jun 2015, 11:05 AM PST0

The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector announced his retirement this week without any advance notice. The chief is stepping down from the top post in the same area that last year saw a humanitarian crisis as thousands of illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors flooded across the border.
by Ildefonso Ortiz27 Jun 2015, 6:42 AM PST0

The gunmen who recently hijacked a cargo truck carrying visas and documents bound for the U.S. consulates in Monterrey and Guadalajara were able to steal 11,500 border crossing cards that had just left this border city.
by Ildefonso Ortiz25 Jun 2015, 4:28 AM PST0

A group of suspected cartel gunmen hijacked a cargo truck in Northern Mexico, which carried visas intended for the U.S. Consulate offices in Monterrey and Guadalajara.
by Ildefonso Ortiz24 Jun 2015, 11:08 AM PST0

A brazen attack by Colombian rebels this week, in which they destroyed a military helicopter as it landed, killed four soldiers in what points to a reigniting of violence in the South American country.
by Ildefonso Ortiz24 Jun 2015, 10:10 AM PST0

A former police chief targeted by a federal investigation into the theft of federal border security grant money has been found dead. While details have not been released, authorities in Rio Grande City found the body of Byron “Dutch” Piper Tuesday morning, in what authorities believe to be a suicide.
by Ildefonso Ortiz23 Jun 2015, 10:36 AM PST0

A North Carolina teenager allegedly planned on using an AR-15 and a silencer to kill as many people as possible on behalf of ISIS. FBI agents, however, arrested him before he could carry out the plot. The teen also allegedly planned on having his parents murdered.
by Ildefonso Ortiz23 Jun 2015, 10:33 AM PST0

A retired Texas border police chief is expected to turn himself in to authorities on federal charges accusing him of stealing money from a federal border-enforcement grant.
by Ildefonso Ortiz23 Jun 2015, 6:48 AM PST0

Blood continues to flow in the streets in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Suspected cartel gunmen killed at least 22 people over the weekend, in what some government officials describe as disputes between rival cartel members.
by Ildefonso Ortiz22 Jun 2015, 11:18 AM PST0

The governor of the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas honored the Gulf Cartel with great fanfare when he cut the ribbon to a newly paved street bearing the name of its founder, Juan Nepomuceno Guerra.
by Ildefonso Ortiz20 Jun 2015, 2:08 PM PST0

A group of suspected drug cartel gunmen stormed a beer warehouse and fatally shot 10 employees in a suburb of the northern industrial city of Monterrey.
by Ildefonso Ortiz20 Jun 2015, 8:53 AM PST0

Federal agents have arrested a U.S. citizen who pledged his support for ISIS, and talked to terror supporters about carrying out attacks in America.
by Ildefonso Ortiz20 Jun 2015, 5:58 AM PST0

Federal agents continue their crackdown on Medicare abuse spanning from the Texas Border to Chicago, in a series of cases that have resulted in 243 individuals getting charged in the federal courts of 17 different districts.
by Ildefonso Ortiz20 Jun 2015, 5:44 AM PST0

The U.S. federal government has formally announced that yet another former governor from Mexico has now become a fugitive sought by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
by Ildefonso Ortiz19 Jun 2015, 10:02 AM PST0

More than $100 million has been paid out through one form of government medical aid in the border county of Hidalgo, from January to May. However, investigators believe a large part of that money may be tied to Medicare abuse.
by Ildefonso Ortiz19 Jun 2015, 5:13 AM PST0

Once again, Mexican authorities have dismantled a complex video surveillance system set up by the Gulf Cartel in order to keep tabs on authorities, their rivals and their future victims.
by Ildefonso Ortiz19 Jun 2015, 4:57 AM PST0

Federal authorities have begun a large-scale crackdown on healthcare businesses and doctors along the Texas border who are accused of scamming government health care programs.
by Ildefonso Ortiz18 Jun 2015, 5:07 AM PST0

Indian authorities, along with the Interpol and U.S. authorities, are working at extraditing a convicted murderer who not only became a famous fugitive featured on national television, but also became a symbol of the deep-rooted corruption on the Texas border.
by Ildefonso Ortiz18 Jun 2015, 4:53 AM PST0

For several years, the federal government has been releasing criminal aliens with histories of violent sexual abuse and releasing them into unsuspecting communities, with little or no warning to state and local authorities, after their home countries refuse to take them back.
by Ildefonso Ortiz17 Jun 2015, 5:13 AM PST0

As the nation continues to demand answers over the OPM data breach which potentially compromised the personal information of millions of government employees, federal agents and officers are barely being notified of a separate – but apparently related – attack at a government contractor that took place about nine months ago.
by Ildefonso Ortiz16 Jun 2015, 12:26 PM PST0

A newly surfaced video shows a new level of savagery by Mexican drug cartel members, as they strap sticks of dynamite to a child and to one of their rivals, only to light the fuses and blow them up.
by Ildefonso Ortiz16 Jun 2015, 6:28 AM PST0

A police officer from McAllen, Texas took her two children with her in what authorities are calling an attempt to smuggle two illegal immigrants past a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. The former cop appears to have driven through the checkpoint just a week before in a similar human smuggling run.
by Ildefonso Ortiz15 Jun 2015, 12:25 PM PST0

Almost nine months have passed since a group of 43 education students form the rural Mexican town of Aytozinapa were shot at and kidnapped by local police, Mexican drug cartels, and possibly the Mexican federal government. As time has passed since the fateful events of September 26, 2014, parents of those missing students have gotten more questions than answers, and developed a deeper mistrust of the Mexican government.
by Ildefonso Ortiz15 Jun 2015, 11:08 AM PST0

A Texas border cop lost her job following her arrest by U.S. Border Patrol agents during a human smuggling attempt.
by Ildefonso Ortiz14 Jun 2015, 5:36 AM PST0

DONNA, Texas — Once again the school district in this border town continues to be the cause of controversy with the latest chapter being the drug arrest of the son of the school police chief who is believed to also be an employee at the school.
by Ildefonso Ortiz13 Jun 2015, 5:31 AM PST0