
Authorities have arrested the tax collector and three employees from this border county on multiple bribery, engaging in organized criminal activity, and official oppression charges. As with the multiple recent corruption cases along the border, the public officials have ties to the Democratic Party.
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Jan 2016, 6:03 AM PST0

A city councilman from the border city of Crystal City is facing human smuggling charges after federal agents allegedly found three illegal aliens in his truck.
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Jan 2016, 5:53 AM PST0

A city councilman from a south Texas city has been arrested and charged with smuggling illegal immigrants across the border.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Jan 2016, 3:11 PM PST0

An illegal alien from Mexico is accused of attacking a U.S. Border Patrol agent by punching him, biting him and beating him with a baton. The man even tried to reach for the agent’s locked rifle from his SUV.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jan 2016, 7:29 AM PST0

A member of a Texas border militia has been sentenced to prison on federal weapons charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The militia had been patrolling a property on the banks of the Rio Grande trying to turn back human smugglers and drug traffickers.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jan 2016, 6:54 AM PST0

Authorities continue to search for multiple gunmen in connection with a home invasion turned drug shootout that killed two men last month near this border city.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jan 2016, 5:47 AM PST0

An illegal alien has been arrested on accusations that he abused a 5-year-old girl during a New Year’s party in this border city.
by Ildefonso Ortiz5 Jan 2016, 6:52 AM PST0

A previously deported illegal alien who was arrested while entering the country illegally has pleaded guilty to possession of hundreds of images of child pornography.
by Ildefonso Ortiz5 Jan 2016, 6:29 AM PST0

Central American consular officials are crying foul over the immigration raids aimed at deporting illegal aliens who entered the country during the recent immigration crisis and already have court issued deportation orders.
by Ildefonso Ortiz4 Jan 2016, 6:31 AM PST0

A Brazilian man who had been previously deported after getting convicted of mail fraud and scamming airlines has been arrested in Texas for illegally coming back to America.
by Ildefonso Ortiz4 Jan 2016, 6:03 AM PST0

Mexican authorities arrested a teenager accused of taking part in a fake kidnapping scheme of an employee in order to fool a local businessman.
by Ildefonso Ortiz3 Jan 2016, 7:39 AM PST0

The Tamaulipas state government is continuing look at various ways to muffle news outlets in order to show a positive side to the area and to minimize the out of control violence in the region and to present a positive side to things.
by Cartel Chronicles2 Jan 2016, 11:48 AM PST0

Policías mexicanos mataron a un hombre armado del Cártel de Los Zetas durante un breve enfrentamiento en una zona rural cerca de esta ciudad fronteriza. Aunque las autoridades encontraron varios pistoleros de Los Zetas, sólo uno se enfrentó contra las autoridades, mientras que el resto huyó.
by Cartel Chronicles2 Jan 2016, 11:34 AM PST0

Mexican police officers killed a Los Zetas cartel gunman during a short clash in a rural area near this border city. While authorities found multiple Los Zetas gunmen, only one faced off against authorities while the rest fled into brush.
by Cartel Chronicles2 Jan 2016, 11:26 AM PST0

2015 ushered in the first new governor for the Lone Star State in over a decade. In January, the new governor, former Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, was sworn in and immediately went to work on securing the border between Texas and Mexico and took the strongest stand of any state’s governor in attacking sanctuary cities.
by Bob Price1 Jan 2016, 11:05 AM PST0

An American woman is believed to have been the leader of a robbery crew that had been preying on people who were traveling into Mexico as they drove through the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
by Ildefonso Ortiz31 Dec 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

Terror continues to take hold of this border city as the number of gruesome beheadings by the Los Zetas drug cartel continues to grow. Just days after Los Zetas had beheaded three informants and made a gory show of spreading their heads around the city, they have done it again.
by Ildefonso Ortiz30 Dec 2015, 8:10 AM PST0

El terror continúa apoderándose de esta ciudad fronteriza mientras que el número de terribles decapitaciones por Los Zetas Cártel sigue creciendo. Apenas unos días después de que Los Zetas habían decapitado a tres informantes e hicieron un sangriento espectáculo con el esparcimiento de las cabeza alrededor de la ciudad, lo hicieron por cuarta vez.
by Cartel Chronicles30 Dec 2015, 7:59 AM PST0

A Mexican fisherman is accused of ramming a U.S. Coast Guard boat in an effort to elude capture and flee back to Mexico. The move resulted in one Coast Guard member being injured in the crash after the Mexican boat struck him.
by Ildefonso Ortiz30 Dec 2015, 7:16 AM PST0

Attorney’s representing a Honduran woman, her daughter and another underage girl are suing the U.S. government after a U.S. Border Patrol Agent raped them, tortured them and then left them for dead. Rather than be captured, the agent ended up killing himself.
by Ildefonso Ortiz30 Dec 2015, 6:38 AM PST0

The more than 8,000 Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica after Castro ally Nicaragua rejected their legal visas will fly over Nicaragua to El Salvador to commence their voyage to the United States, a coalition of Central American nations announced this week.
by Frances Martel29 Dec 2015, 9:00 PM PST0

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The criminal organization known as the Gulf Cartel continues to generate terror in this border city, however, in response to all of the attention it has created, they are trying to distance themselves from their recent waves of kidnappings and murders.
by Cartel Chronicles29 Dec 2015, 4:02 AM PST0

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — As authorities continue to deal with a sudden spike in violence that has resulted in various executions and most recently the beheading of three informants at the hands of Los Zetas cartel members, one failed daytime execution continues to spike interests of investigators.
by Cartel Chronicles29 Dec 2015, 3:55 AM PST0

The bullet-ridden bodies of four people including the co-founder of a violent drug cartel were found early Monday on a highway in western Mexico, authorities said.
by Breitbart News28 Dec 2015, 6:31 PM PST0

A failed home invasion turned into a drug shootout near the border city of Mission, Texas, and left two gunmen dead as drug traffickers tried to steal a load of narcotics from a house — but the owners of the drugs fought back.
by Ildefonso Ortiz28 Dec 2015, 1:58 PM PST0