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MCALLEN, Texas — A man from the South Texas border has pleaded guilty to having more than 27,500 pictures and videos of child pornography.  Earlier this week, 26-year-old Alberto Garza Gaona when before U.S. District Judge George Kazen where he

VILLA PANCHO, Texas — The actions of a group of volunteers looking to help secure the border appears to have angered the Gulf Cartel.  The letters CDG which stand for Cartel Del Golfo or Gulf Cartel were scrawled along various

MCALLEN, Texas — Two suspected cartel gunmen went before a federal judge this morning in connection with the murder of a Mexican attorney in the Dallas suburb of Southlake.  Breitbart Texas has learned that federal authorities arrested Jesus Ledezma and

MCALLEN, Texas – Four illegal aliens from Mexico received a lengthy prison sentence for kidnapping, torturing, and raping a group of illegal immigrants at a stash house near the South Texas border.  During a sentencing hearing, Chief U.S. District Judge

MCALLEN, Texas — Federal authorities continue to investigate the apparent suicide of an illegal immigrant that was being housed at a U.S. Border Patrol processing center in this border city.  Shortly before noon, agents found a 54-year-old Mexican national unresponsive

MCALLEN, Texas – An apparent alliance by four different cartels could mean a shift in power in the ongoing violent struggle that has led to Mexico becoming one of the most violent countries in the world.  According to Mexican media

MCALLEN, Texas — A justice of the peace from the Laredo area has pleaded guilty to federal extortion charges for taking a $250 bribe to rig the bond of a man accused of drunken driving. Ricardo Rangel has been a

MCALLEN, Texas – A group of illegal immigrants stuffed into a pickup truck led authorities on a 160 mile chase that began near Laredo and ended just north of the San Antonio downtown area.  Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to

MCALLEN, TEXAS — A Mexican national who crossed into the country with various types of drugs, at least seven different times, pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges.  Ricardo Garza Ramirez pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy just moments before his

MCALLEN, Texas – Authorities are warning about a new scam that has begun to take root in this border county where callers dupe victims into paying hundreds or thousands of dollars in false fines to avoid getting arrested for missing

EDINBURG, Texas – Authorities in this Texas border county continue a tradition of empowering homeowners and ranchers so they can protect themselves and their property from criminals.   The staccato sound of gunfire could be heard from a distance as

MCALLEN, Texas — Authorities in a South Texas border town are looking into a home invasion gone wrong, during which a shootout left one dead and one or more injured. Alton police initially learned of the shooting on Sunday morning when the

McALLEN, Texas — Authorities in Cameron County are used to encountering illegal immigrants, however on Labor Day they made an unusual find when a group of Cuban immigrants arrived at South Padre Island after a 1,200 mile voyage.  The six

MCALLEN, Texas — A developing federal investigation has brought up allegations that a Hidalgo County Commissioner paid for votes with bags of cocaine while other politicians paid for votes also with cash, cigarettes, marijuana and beer.  Court records obtained by

MCALLEN, Texas – A group of armed men along the Rio Grande River led to a shooting incident involving Border Patrol. The shooting took place Friday afternoon near the Sabal Palms nature center when a U.S. Border Patrol agent assigned

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – A member of the dangerous Salvadoran gang MS18 who had entered the country illegally will spend 30 months in prison before getting sent back to El Salvador.  On Friday morning U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen sentenced

MCALLEN, Texas – Border patrol agents arrested a suspect in a 10-year-old capital murder  case and a separate attempted murder case moments after he and a group of illegal immigrants entered the country near Rio Grande City Texas.  On Monday

MCALLEN, Texas — Authorities continue to look into a home invasion that turned deadly when the victims fought back, disarmed the gunman, and shot him dead.  Deputies with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office responded late Friday night to a home

DONNA, Texas — Authorities are looking into the kidnappers of a woman, who managed to get away from her captors, north of the Texas border.  Shortly after 2:15 p.m. individuals driving along Farm-to-Market Road 493 spotted a woman waiving for help, said Hidalgo County Sheriff’s

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Federal agents arrested a group of suspected drug smugglers who were carrying drug bundles across the Rio Grande and were being escorted by armed Gulf Cartel gunmen. While drug smuggling is a very common practice throughout the

MCALLEN, Texas — Sheriff’s deputies, in the Texas border county of Starr, are looking for a prison gang member who allegedly shot at them over the weekend striking one of their patrol vehicles.  Information released from Starr County Sheriff’s Office

MCALLEN, Texas — Federal agents arrested a South Texas woman accused of offering a 12-year-old relative to her long distance boyfriend for sexual play as well as offering a new born baby that the two would train to enjoy sexual

MCALLEN, Texas — Breitbart Texas traveled to San Antonio to talk with James Comey, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was visiting Texas, as well as to meet with part of the bureau’s executive management about

MCALLEN, Texas — Border Patrol agents seized more than $650,000 in cash that had been left behind near the Rio Grande River that separates Texas from Mexico. The seizure was made Thursday night when U.S. Border Patrol Agents following a set of

MCALLEN, Texas – Human smugglers continue to find new ways of getting around border enforcement agents, in South Texas smugglers took to the skies to avoid authorities.  In the city of Harlingen, federal agents at the airport arrested the pilot