In front of a room packed with more than 150 Border Patrol agents, the local chapter of the National Border Patrol Council honored Breitbart Texas and Managing Director Brandon Darby for their work in exposing the realities of law enforcement along America’s southern border.
MCALLEN, Texas — As cartel violence continues to take hold of Mexican border cities and various states throughout that country, the U.S. Department of State has once again issued a strongly worded travel warning. The travel warning points out that state and local law enforcement in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas is non-existent.
Two leading figures with Los Zetas are set to spend their life in prison for their role in smuggling thousands of pounds of marijuana into the U.S. and for sending weapons and ammunition into Mexico.
The daughter of a late Mexican kingpin from the hyper-violent Knights Templar drug cartel traveled to McAllen, Texas, to give birth to her first child.
Cartel gunmen killed a Mexican police officer and kidnapped the rest of his squad following a brazen ambush near the Texas border on Sunday. As information about the shootout was released to the media, it became clear officials from Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon were openly denying each other’s versions of the event.
Mexican authorities seized crystal meth, marijuana, rocket-propelled grenades, and several other weapons from a cartel stash house in the border city of Matamoros.
While certain politicians claim the border area is safe, local, state and federal officials are investigating three separate homicides where authorities have recovered the bodies of four men. While authorities have not publicly confirmed if the four murders are connected to drug trafficking or human smuggling, the Rio Grande Valley is a known corridor used by Mexican drug cartels who in the past have a history of settling their scores in a violent and efficient manner.
Cartel gunmen shot down a Mexican military helicopter in the latest wave of violence to hit that country which left seven dead, 15 injured and 15 gunmen arrested in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Public corruption along the Texas border continues to be a major concern for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose anti-corruption task force is working a large number of cases.
Cops across the nation are frustrated by the media largely ignoring police officers killed in the line of duty, while sensationalizing the death of suspects shot by the police.
Border Patrol agents concluded a high-speed chase with two drug traffickers by pulling them out of a burning vehicle and saving their lives. The chase began when U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Harlingen station spotted smugglers loading drugs into a minivan near the border community of El Ranchito, just off the Rio Grande, information provided to Breitbart Texas by Border Patrol revealed.
The Mexican government destroyed 22.5 tons of marijuana, 54 grams of cocaine, and 197 doses of psychoactive drugs.
A federal court hearing for a Texas border narcotics detective accused of stealing cartel drugs offered greater insight into the operation that led to his arrest, and hinted that others may have been aware of his actions.
As the immigration debate continues to polarize the nation, the Obama Administration is on course to have the lowest number of deportations in a decade.
A truck driver who federal agents claim was caught with 35 illegal immigrants in his truck is now facing human smuggling charges. U.S. Border Patrol agents working at a checkpoint about 80 miles north of the river arrested Muchiri Rayheed Rhodes this weekend, after they found 35 illegal immigrants hiding in his tractor trailer, court records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed.
In a surprising turn of events, a Mexican federal court has dismissed some of the charges filed against the former First Lady of the town of Iguala. She is believed to have been one of the masterminds in the kidnapping and execution of 43 education students last year.
Reynosa, Tamaulipas — Tampico Tamaulipas vivió una jornada violenta la semana pasada tras una operación fallida donde se intentó detener al jefe de plaza del Cartel del Golfo en la ciudad. Un grupo especial de SEDENA con el apoyo de la Policía Federal y Fuerza Tamaulipas intentaron el arresto del presunto jefe de plaza, según fuentes en el grupo de coordinación Tamaulipas.
TAMPICO, Tamaulipas — The Mexican port city of Tampico, Tamaulipas, had violent days after an operation aimed at arresting the head of the Gulf Cartel in that city failed. A special task force from the Mexican Army with the support of Federal Police and Fuerza Tamaulipas (vetted state cops), tried to arrest the Gulf Cartel’s plaza boss, according to sources with the Tamaulipas coordination group.
At least twenty cartel gunmen intercepted and threatened a gubernatorial candidate at gunpoint in the Mexican state of Guerrero forcing him to cancel part of his campaign tour. The attack took place when Luis Walton Aburto, the candidate for Movimiento Ciudadano (Citizen’s Movements) was traveling with his campaign staff and supporters and a group of cartel gunmen stopped them at gunpoint in the town of Chilapa Del Alvarez.
MCALLEN, Texas — Tensions have sparked after the Mexican consulate issued a harsh statement blaming the U.S. Border Patrol for a boat crash that left a child and two agents injured.
Kicking and screaming, Mexican authorities took a 14-year-old Alondra Luna from her school and flew her to Houston in an attempt to resolve a child custody dispute. They sent Luna to Houston to reunite her with the woman they thought was her mother. It turned out later that she was not the girl’s mother.
As U.S. oil companies look south of the border in order to take advantage of the new energy reform, one of Mexico’s sad realities surfaces. Drug cartels have unrivaled control of vast territories in that country and in order to exploit the natural resources, American companies will likely have to deal with theft and other crimes from those cartels just like other companies are already doing. In some cases, they will even have to pay protection money.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities have formally charged a feared Gulf Cartel boss whose arrest set off a series of fierce firefights and fiery blockades last week throughout this border city when 60 Gulf Cartel gunmen riding in 15 SUVs tried to free their boss.
Mexican authorities have recovered a piece of radioactive equipment that had been stolen out of a pickup truck in the state of Tabasco. This is the fourth time that radioactive material from X-ray machines has been stolen in Mexico.
Border Patrol agents arrested 49 illegal immigrants during three separate cases where human smugglers had stuffed them inside a trailer, in the trunk of a car and in an SUV in an effort to get them across a checkpoint.
