Authorities raided an underground casino near the Texas border that had been concealed in a private home in a quiet neighborhood. The raid is part of the ongoing Operation Bishop which as previously reported by Breitbart Texas is an effort by law enforcement to kick out underground casinos. These casinos are not only a magnet for criminal activity, but have also been used as a way to launder money by Mexican cartels operating in the U.S.
LA FERIA, Texas — A group of heavily-armed gunmen stormed a house and hogtied the people inside as they searched for large amounts cash in this border community.
UPDATE: Lockdowns have been lifted at Texas border schools and authorities continue search for armed gunmen. An apparent armed drug rip-crew that prepared to raid a house near the Texas border set off a massive manhunt that resulted in lockdowns on multiple area schools. Such groups rob drug shipments or loads from cartel stash houses and operatives.
The constant allegations about human rights abuses by the Mexican government has led to the United States cutting back around 15 percent of the funding sent to help in the war against drugs.
Gunmen suspected of being part of Los Zetas drug cartel fired an RPG at the headquarters of a special police unit in the border city of Piedras Negras Coahuila; the rocket-propelled grenade did not explode. Piedras Negras is the sister city of Eagle Pass, Texas, and sits immediately across the border.
MATAMOROS, Tamulipas – Las autoridades mexicanas detuvieron a uno de los principales líderes dentro de la estructura del Cártel del Golfo. El hombre, conocido como “El Orejón”, o “Ciclón 7”, es el actual líder de la facción de los Ciclones que controla esta ciudad fronteriza.
Mexico’s National Security Commissioner called out the claims that famed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera was injured during a clash with authorities. Authorities did confirm that El Chapo is in Mexico and they have narrowed down the search.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas—Mexican authorities have arrested one of the top leaders within the Gulf Cartel structure. The man, known as El Orejon, or Ciclon 7, is the current leader of the Ciclones faction which is in control of this border city.
The infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman continued fame has made turned the fugitive capo into a household name world wide.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas—A series of execution and raging violence that have been taking place in this state capital point to a change within Los Zetas drug cartel and perhaps even more violence.
MCALLEN, Texas — Texas State Troopers seized more than a million dollars in cartel money from Chicago that was destined for Mexico. The seizure took place Monday morning near Edinburg, Texas, when a state trooper pulled over a 2007 Peterbilt tractor towing a trailer, information provided to Breitbart Texas by DPS revealed.
MCALLEN, Texas — The crew on board a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter successfully stopped a drug smuggling attempt by the a Mexican drug cartel on the banks of the Rio Grande.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Violent clashes in this border city have led to nine deaths–one of those was a soldier and the eight others were hit-men with Los Zetas drug cartel. The shootouts took place not far from the Rio Grande and the Texas city of Laredo.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The Gulf Cartel had eight armored trucks hidden in an underground bunker-like garage in the outskirts of this border city that sits immediately across the border from South Texas. The seizure took place this weekend following an air and land operation by the Mexican Army in the rural areas near this city, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed.
Mexican authorities continue to look into the kidnapping that led to a firefight that killed five Los Zetas cartel members and one Mexican soldier. A series of graphic photos obtained by Breitbart Texas shows the carnage that took place not far from the border with the United States in Nuevo Laredo, the sister city of Laredo, Texas.
Five cartel kidnappers and one Mexican soldier died during a fierce gun battle in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, just south from the Texas city of Laredo. The soldiers managed to rescue a woman that Los Zetas had apparently kidnapped. The shootout took place over the weekend when soldiers with the Mexican military set up an operation to rescue a kidnapping victim, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed.
The sheriff in this Texas border county has called out the inaccurate reporting done by the Daily Mail for a story about life on the Texas border.
Mexican authorities have jailed more than 30 people who helped through active participation or omission in the escape of famed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Two guards are believed to have been playing computer games instead of checking security cameras at the time of the escape.
MCALLEN, Texas—A woman from Romania previously convicted of a store burglary and deported found her way back to Texas just months later.
A Mexican drug cartel had a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer working for them at an international port of entry in this border city. That U.S. federal officer will be spending six and a half years in prison for using his badge to help cartel drug smugglers get their loads into America.
A Texas man has been charged in an ongoing Mexican cartel effort to buy guns in the U.S. The man is charged with having personally purchased at least 38 weapons for the cartel. Agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives recently arrested 31-year-old Carlos Alberto Zamudio on straw purchasing charges. Straw purchasing refers to the practice of U.S citizens with a clean background purchasing weapons for people who are not able to such as convicted felons, foreign nationals, and, along the Texas border, Mexican drug cartels.
Online giant Yahoo has fallen hook, line and sinker for a debunked story claiming that Mexican drug lord El Chapo has posted a $100 million reward for leading presidential candidate Donald Trump.
FALFURRIAS, Texas — Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol found an illegal immigrant stuffed inside a suitcase at an immigration checkpoint 80 miles north from the Texas border. As part of the case, agents also arrested two other illegal immigrants and three suspected human smugglers that were traveling in the same vehicle.
A Mexican politician became the target of criticism after she recently asked if giving a lethal injection to the region’s homeless and those with psychiatric ailments was a better option than letting them run wild. The comment was made by Olga Gutierrez de Machorro, a public official in the Mexican town of Tecamachalco Puebla
A man boasting on Facebook of occupying a leadership position for the feared Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion ended up behind bars exposed as a fraud. Authorities from the Mexican State of Jalisco arrested 24-year-old Martin Juarez Campos on charges of inciting violence and promoting crime, information provided to Breitbart Texas by Jalisco’s Attorney General’s Office revealed.
