MCALLEN, Texas — A recent rash of gunfights just south of the Texas border points to an internal conflict within factions of the Gulf Cartel over control of lucrative riverside real estate. Mexican authorities have not released information on the
MCALLEN, Texas–The ongoing dispute between factions of the Gulf Cartel over control of the area just south of the Texas Border resulted in the death of six cartel hitmen in various firefights. The first firefight began in the Mexican City
WESLACO, Texas–Retaliation and vendettas at the hands of a Texas police chief appears to be the motive behind the arrest of a fellow police officer in Weslaco. The arrest gives the appearance of a political retaliation against a union board
LA JOYA, Texas–Yellow police tape still hung from fences as Texas rangers walked through the scene where just a day earlier a gang member had gone down in a hail of gunfire in an hours-long shootout with authorities that left
LA JOYA, Texas–Citizens ran for cover as authorities and a presumed member of the Texas Syndicate prison gang got into a brutal firefight less than a mile from the border with Mexico. Bursts of what sounded like automatic fire were
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas–Police officers arrested a member of the Salvadoran street gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, early Tuesday morning in Rio Grande City. A police officer patrolling the streets of Rio Grande City shortly after 1 a.m. heard loud music coming from a
MCALLEN, Texas–A former drug dealer who had entered the country illegally asked for leniency claiming he had come to the U.S. to escape drug violence. “Things back home in Michoacán are really bad, the violence is really really bad,” Armando
MCALLEN, Texas–Minutes after a federal judge sentenced a former Texas sheriff to prison for laundering money received from drug traffickers, his attorney began preparing an appeal to the sentence. “I am very embarrassed and ashamed for the actions that I
MCALLEN, Texas–A federal judge sentenced a Texas sheriff to five years in prison for taking money from a South Texas drug lord linked to Mexican cartels. On Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez delivered harsh words to former Hidalgo County
MCALLEN, Texas – Border patrol agents have arrested three U.S. citizens who refused to answer immigration questions at a checkpoint 29 miles north of the border with Mexico. Two of the men recorded the verbal confrontation with their cell phones.
MCALLEN, Texas–A federal judge denied bond for a husband and wife accused of kidnapping an illegal immigrant from Honduras and threatening her family with decapitating her or selling her off to a brothel if they didn’t pay a ransom. On
McALLEN, Texas–Federal agents arrested a convicted human smuggler accused of leading them on a 45 minute foot chase in the brush. The smuggler was apparently trying to avoid getting caught with 10 illegal immigrants hidden in a tractor trailer. Court
McALLEN, Texas–Border patrol agents arresting a suspected drug trafficker near the edge of the Rio Grande got an unexpected surprise when they found a handgun on the man’s waistband. Daniel Martinez–from Laredo–remains in federal custody without bond after U.S. Magistrate
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Federal agents raiding a human stash house in Brownsville ended up charging one of the illegal aliens with weapon charges after they found a handgun with the serial number filed off. Wednesday morning, Oscar Romeo MARTIN-Zacarias –
McALLEN, Texas–Federal authorities have arrested a convicted drug trafficker from Mexico accused of taking part in the Gulf Cartel ordered kidnapping and execution of a man in the border city of Mission, Texas; the cartel team took the wrong man.
MCALLEN, Texas — Drug cartels that profit from human smuggling, kidnapping, extortion, and murder-for-hire run a Mexican state that borders Texas, according to documents obtained by Breitbart Texas. A series of court records obtained by Breitbart Texas allege a direct
