As more money continues to flow into the pockets of Mexican drug cartels, traffickers need to maintain a solid network of places—often along the southwest border—where they can launder drug money. However, in an attempt to stymie these efforts, several major US banks have been closing numerous branches in the region and shutting down hundreds of customer accounts.
A criminal alien with four previous convictions has pleaded guilty to taking part in a kidnapping in the border city of McAllen, Texas under orders from his cartel bosses in Mexico.
Just days after the U.S. Department of Treasury publicly outed a suspected Gulf Cartel money laundering and drug trafficking network active in both Mexico and Texas, Mexican authorities captured one of its main members.
The rapid and steady decline of Venezuela’s national currency, the Bolívar, is forcing a growing number of businesses to do trade only in American dollars, freezing out Venezuelan citizens from buying cars, renting apartments, or boarding flights offered by businesses that refuse their currency even when they can muster an equivalent amount of retail prices in Bolívars.
MCALLEN, Texas — The Sinaloa Federation, or its increasingly independent Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion faction, appear to have been using this border city as a staging area to move heroin to northern cities in Ohio and New Jersey.
The U.S. government has unmasked one of the main drug traffickers and money launderers for the Gulf Cartel, a man who used his gasoline business in Mexico as a front for operations that reached deep into South Texas.
After reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors, the top enforcer for the powerful Sinaloa Cartel pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges for his role in protecting what is considered to be Mexico’s most powerful narcotics smuggling empire.
The arrest of 14 individuals charged with circumventing airport security to operate a nationwide drug trafficking organization has brought safety at America’s airports into serious question.
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.
Today started out like any other Saturday morning, which for me involves checking emails and Facebook. Shortly after starting to scroll through my feed, I saw my friend had shared a heartbreaking story: the strange sentencing dilemma of a heroin dealer who was complicit in the death of her son’s namesake—a teenage boy in upper middle class Middle America.
U.S. Border Patrol agents seized almost 1,000 pounds of marijuana after a fleeing drug smuggler drove his truck into the Rio Grande.
Mexican authorities seized crystal meth, marijuana, rocket-propelled grenades, and several other weapons from a cartel stash house in the border city of Matamoros.
After years of speculation, rumor, and firsthand testimonials by Cuban exiles about the human rights violations committed by Fidel Castro and his brother Raul, a new book written by one of Castro’s former right-hand men and bodyguards Juan Reinaldo Sanchez exposes Castro’s reign of terror over the Cuban people.
U.S. federal agents along with the Colombian Navy stopped an alleged drug trafficking ship that they claim had been carrying at least 882 pounds of cocaine valued at $65 million.
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.
In a span of just two days, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have discovered two drug tunnels—one complete and the other in progress—spanning the California-Mexico border.
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.
Federal agents discovered an underground tunnel crossing the border into Mexico from Naco, Arizona on Tuesday as part of an investigation after a traffic stop that yielded over two tons of marijuana, with a value of approximately $3 million.
Justice moved slowly for an Arizona Army National Guardsman who fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution after a 2002 drug trafficking and bribery case came to light. The former Arizona Army National Guard (AANG) sergeant was sentenced on February 20 to serve fifty-two months in prison for the scheme where he accepted bribes in exchange for using his military position to protect shipments of cocaine.
Mexican officials are up in arms over Pope Francis’ recent warning to Argentina to “avoid Mexicanization,” used in the pejorative sense of an illegal drug trade that is out of control, as well as widespread political corruption.
MCALLEN, Texas – The Gulf Cartel’s top cocaine distributor in Matamoros remains behind bars following his recent arrest in that Mexican border city . The arrest took place following an anonymous tip and a follow-up investigation that led authorities to
Mexican drug cartels may be raking in billions of dollars in profits every year, but new figures from both the United States and Mexican sources indicate marijuana from south of the border may be accounting for a much smaller share than before. Some drug war observers believe that legalization measures in certain U.S. states are causing not only a decline in marijuana smuggling, but a decline in Mexico’s homicide rate as well.
Sandra Ávila Beltrán, also known as the “Queen of the Pacific” for her alleged cocaine smuggling and money laundering activities, was released from a Mexican prison after winning her appeal. Most people picture the highest level leaders in a drug
Convicted child sex offender, drug trafficker and prior deportee Eloy Chavez-Loviano was arrested near Calexico, California on Monday when Border Patrol agents caught Chavez attempting to cross back into the United States from Mexico.
