Acapulco was once a bustling tourist region in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The beach-resort city has now become a heavily contested drug territory where executions have become commonplace. Large scale gun battles continue to bring the city to a halt.
The Mexican government has publicly granted the extradition of that country’s most famous drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, to the United States. On Friday, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced that they had personally notified Guzman inside a federal prison in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua about the extradition agreement.
A federal agent, various police officers and a mixed martial arts promoter have all been charged in connection a complex scheme to steal drugs from smugglers. The conspiracy involved officers from the Rio Grande Valley to Houston.
The violence brought to this city by two rival factions of the Los Zetas cartel was finally a reported by multiple news outlets throughout the state after a team of gunmen killed a popular union leader.
Border Patrol agents from the Laredo Sector were first on the scene of the tragic bus crash that killed 8 people and injured 44 others.
MCALLEN, Texas — Mexican cartel members kidnapped an American citizen in this border city and crossed him into Mexico and then demanded ransom money from his family. The region is controlled by the Gulf Cartel and outsiders engaging in kidnapping for ransom in their territory does not occur. The Mexican neighborhood where the victim was held is also a stronghold for the Gulf Cartel and considered a major base for their cross-border operations into the Rio Grande Valley Sector of Texas.
A self-confessed Los Zetas cartel member is now in federal custody after authorities caught him entering the country illegally. The arrest took place Saturday on at 8:20 a.m. near the border city of Roma.
The murder of yet another journalist in Mexico continues to make that country one of the deadliest places for the reporters. Unlike other countries, in Mexico, journalists are often targeted not only by criminal organizations, but also by corrupt government officials.
A Pakistani man was caught illegally entering the United States last week. Recently unsealed court documents revealed the man had been lying to the FBI about his journey into America.
A second Mexican judge has cleared the extradition process for famed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera. The judge’s ruling clears another hurdle in the legal wrangling between his lawyers, Mexican prosecutors, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Two Mexican citizens have been convicted of having taken part in a cartel execution in a Dallas suburb earning them an automatic life sentence in federal prison. A third man connected to the execution had previously pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.
Central and South American immigrants are finding loopholes in order to manipulate the United States immigration system so they can stay. Law enforcement officials from the various agencies that make up the Department of Homeland Security have reached out to Breitbart Texas pointing out the new practices being taught to illegal immigrants by smugglers.
Eight bus passengers died and more than 40 were injured following a Saturday morning crash northwest of the border city of Laredo.
A State District Judge in this border city has shocked residents by suspending the sentence of a local border judge previously convicted of bribery. Instead of spending 5 years in prison the corrupt former judge will serve 30 days in jail and serve the rest under probation.
Federal authorities have set their sights on the wife of a fugitive Mexican drug lord wanted for the kidnapping and murder of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
Former Mexican President and outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter Vicente Fox has publicly called for negotiations with the drug cartels that have brought terror to his country.
New York news outlets are claiming drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera will end up going to a federal courthouse there in that city. The news came just days after the famed drug lord was moved to a prison in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua where he awaits extradition.
As the number of complaints of torture by Mexican authorities continue to increase and various human rights groups along with journalists continue to criticize that country’s governments over the methods used by authorities to get information out of cartel members, former soldiers and residents along the border appear to be in agreement with the tactics calling them a sort of retribution on their part.
La falta de condiciones de seguridad a lo largo de las carreteras que llevan a esta ciudad fronteriza continúan siendo un área bajo el control de los miembros del cártel en donde logran atacar vehículos de la policía con total impunidad y logran escapes limpios.
A high school teacher from this border city remains under investigation by school officials as they try to determine how her nude photographs ended up on social media and into the hands of students.
The case of one suspected human smuggler who is also an illegal alien, helps provide a deeper understanding of the true figure of individuals being successfully smuggled into the country. The man claimed that in the past six months he has successfully housed more than 300 illegal aliens in his apartment.
Two former U.S. Army soldiers based out of Fort Hood have been sent to prison for their role in a human smuggling operation where they had been using their uniform to get around immigration checkpoints.
The Mexican military has seized more than 25 tons of marijuana from a trailer that appears to have rolled over and been abandoned along a rural road in the Mexican state of Sonora.
The mayor of this border city has called out organized crime as being behind a shut down in public transportation that has left citizens stranded. The shutdowns appear to be tied to the criminal organizations supporting certain candidates and trying to keep people out of the events of other candidates.
Several members of the Mexican army who had been operating in this border city have been arrested by military police in an apparent corruption roundup.
LA GRULLA, Texas — Mexican cartel human smugglers tried to rape an 11-year-old girl from Honduras and then brutally beat the girl’s mother when the woman tried to protect her daughter — all of which occurred in the state of Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border.
MCALLEN, Texas — Members of an American family that were driving to a funeral in Mexico spent 19 days being held captive by a Mexican drug cartel before authorities were able to rescue them. During the rescue, authorities killed one of the captors and arrested two others.
Authorities in rural Ohio have not been able to provide answers as to what led to 8 family members being brutally executed by gunmen. The brazenness of the criminal act, the lack of answers, as well as the finding of a marijuana growing operation have led many to ask if the executions were carried out by a Mexican drug cartel over rivalries or debts.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — A man arrested for raping and murdering his four-year-old stepdaughter has been killed by inmates during a small confrontation at the state prison in this border city. Law enforcement officials in Tamaulipas confirmed that on Monday afternoon Sergio Oros Sanchez died from injuries sustained during a “scuffle” at the prison in Reynosa.
The five self-confessed members of the Mexican Gulf Cartel who were arrested last week as they tried to raft their way into Texas received a slap on the wrist after U.S. federal authorities only charged them with common immigration charges. The minimal charges set against the cartel members, who had been fleeing a certain death at the hands of their own criminal organization, means that three cartel members will be released in 15 days, one will be released in 30 days while the fifth member will be released in a matter of months.
MCALLEN, Texas — A Texas border woman is facing federal charges in connection with false allegations that she allegedly made about a federal agent taking bribes from drug traffickers.
A Texas border school board with a long history of corruption has just been delivered its most recent scandal after a federal jury found that four of its board members had used their position in order to carry out political vendettas.
ROMA, Texas — Five members of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel were arrested near this border city as they tried to illegally enter the country. The arrests took place this week when the group tried to cross the Rio Grande near the Mexican City of Miguel Aleman into this border city, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the 229th District Attorney’s office revealed.
CIUDAD VICTORIA — Cartel gunmen lobbed a grenade near a packed kindergarten class as the children were outside celebrating a special event. The explosive device did not go off, but caused terror in this city that for weeks has been subjected to unending violence between rival factions of Los Zetas.
A 13-year-old girl is fighting to survive after a cartel human smuggler abandoned her and her 15-year-old sister in the brush area. The teens were left to die and spent five days in the dangerous brush without water.
Mexican cartel human smugglers abandoned a two-year-old girl on the Texas side of the Rio Grande and returned to Mexico. The cartel smugglers had crossed the child on a raft along with a group of 14 other illegal immigrants near the area known as Rincon Village, information release to Breitbart Texas by U.S. Border Patrol revealed.
An illegal alien convicted of crossing into Texas to rob illegal aliens and then cross back into Mexico will now spend five years in prison.
The U.S. Department of State is asking American tourists to avoid Mexican clinics in the beach resort area of Los Cabos in Baja California after receiving multiple allegations of abuse. Some of allegations include kidnapping patients until payments were made, price-gouging and withholding the tourists passports.
A team of suspected cartel gunmen ambushed and murdered a local reporter in the Mexican state of Guerrero Monday morning as he left his home on his way to work. Mexican authorities have released minimal information on the case; however they have been working extensively to minimize the raging cartel violence that has been taking place in the beach resort town of Acapulco, Guerrero.
Over the weekend the Mexican beach resort Town of Acapulco Guerrero turned into a war zone as convoys carrying cartel gunmen clashed with police and military forces. Mexican authorities have released minimal details in an attempt to downplay the violence, however, residents and tourists have taken to social media posting videos and photographs of the raging gun battle.
