REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Autoridades detuvieron a dos miembros del Cartel del Golfo los cuales habían estado cuidando una casa que la organización criminal estaba usando para almacenar armas. Después del arresto, los 2 hombres aparentemente comenzaron a llorar cuando las autoridades les tomaron fotografías.
Mexican authorities arrested two Gulf Cartel members who were guarding a house the criminal organization was using to store weapons and vehicles. The two gunmen apparently burst into tears as the police photographed them, and the items seized from the house they were protecting.
MCALLEN, Texas—Federal agents arrested two suspected Gulf Cartel arms dealers who are accused of recruiting people with the ability to legally purchase weapons on their behalf so that they can have them shipped to Mexico.
The former police chief of Juarez is blaming the current police chief for the brutal assassination attempt he suffered earlier this month.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — A un año de que la nueva estrategia de seguridad para Tamaulipas fuera implementada por el gobierno federal, la frontera y la zona sur del estado sigue inmersa en una espiral de violencia. Las autoridades han capturado a 14 de los 15 objetivos pero los resultados no se hacen tangibles para la población que vive en constante riesgo.
A year after the Mexican government kicked off their new security strategy for Tamaulipas, the border area, as well as the southern part of the state, remain trapped in a downward spiral of violence.
MCALLEN, Texas — A decorated war veteran known locally in this border city for his strong views about politics has become the target of harassment by a Political Action Committee (PAC) with ties to the Clinton’s.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer in Laredo is facing federal charges that accuse him of collecting $40,000 in overtime that he did not work.
A legal immigrant from Mexico who was caught in 2013 at an international bridge on the Texas border smuggling child porn will spend more than seven years in prison after a federal judge handed down his sentence.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — En matamoros Tamaulipas, ciudad en la frontera con el sur de Texas y donde se mantiene activa la “estrategia” de seguridad en contra de la inseguridad, solo se continúan engrosando las listas de desaparecidos.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — In the Mexican border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, the government claims their security “strategy” against organized crime remains active. Despite assurances, the list of kidnapping victims continues to grow.
As the Mexican government continues to downplay cartel violence, a group of cartel gunmen stormed a federal police station in Mexico City in an effort to rescue the brother of a jailed capo. In that same day Mexican authorities found 11 bags filled with human remains in a nearby train station.
Three current and one former Texas congressmen are under an ethics investigation, along with six others, in connection with an all-expenses-paid luxury trip to the Caspian Sea, financed by an Azerbaijan state-run company.
A group of 15 heavily-armed masked gunmen kicked down the door of a Texas border home and opened fire without warning, in a home invasion that injured a 9-year-old boy and his 33-year-old mother.
Over the weekend, Border Patrol agents arrested 16 illegal immigrants stuffed inside a tractor trailer driven by a suspected Mara Salvatrucha gang member.
A teacher at an elementary school near Brownsville, Texas is one of four men behind bars on charges of luring a 16-year-old girl into a life of prostitution and drug dealing with social media.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a group of 73 illegal immigrants last week, as the migrants sought to evade detection by making their way through a Texas border ranch.
Texas border authorities continue to look into the recent theft of an unmarked Texas Department of Public Safety patrol car along with the weapons and equipment inside.
U.S. Border Patrol agents seized almost 1,000 pounds of marijuana after a fleeing drug smuggler drove his truck into the Rio Grande.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Violent firefights have once again taken hold along this border area following a renewed firefights between warring factions of the Gulf Cartel and a recent shootout this week between cartel gunmen and the Mexican military.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Se reanudan episodios de violencia en la frontera luego de una serie de enfrentamiento entre grupos del Cartel del Golfo y una reciente balacera esta semana entre sicarios y militares sobre la carretera libre Matamoros Reynosa, dejando como saldo el decomiso de un armamento y un sicario abatido.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Tras dos días de secuestro, un hombre que fue abandonado dentro de una camioneta fue rescatado recientemente por autoridades federales y militares en esta ciudad fronteriza. El secuestro aparenta mostrar una nueva modalidad de operar de parte de los miembros locales del crimen organizado.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Mexican military and federal police forces rescued a man who had been kidnapped and subsequently left behind tied and blindfolded inside an abandoned SUV in this border city. The kidnapping appears to show a new trend in the way organized crime members have been carrying out robberies and kidnappings.
UPDATE: The suspected explosive device a Texas bomb squad responded to near the border has been determined to be “non-explosive,” according to Detective Rogelio Banda with the San Benito Police Department.
MCALLEN, Texas — The government watchdog group Judicial Watch has released some documents tied to an accidental incursion by the Mexican military into the Arizona border from June 2014.
