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A deputy police director from Central Mexico was murdered after being kidnapped by cartel gunmen from a university classroom. The incident occurred in front of other students. His body was later recovered in a rural area on Saturday.

Two state police officers from Sonora were gunned down and two others were wounded during a cartel ambush on Sunday afternoon. For 2019, the Mexican border state abutting Arizona has now suffered 19 police deaths.

Cartel-related violence continues in Ciudad Juárez with 20 murders recently registered in 40 hours.

Officials positively identified the victim of a shocking execution-style murder of a patient inside a central Mexico hospital as a high-ranking member of a Mexican drug cartel. The killing is believed to be part of an ongoing turf war between rival criminal gangs.

An extortion gang, which included two municipal police officers, was busted in central Mexico after authorities received anonymous complaints from businesses. Merchants were threatened with violence and property damage if they did not make cash payments to the group.

Mexican Army elements (SEDENA) in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, seized 223 pounds of methamphetamine at a checkpoint near Arizona. The incident follows two other busts totaling 1,370 pounds earlier this month in the city.

Municipal police in Ciudad Juárez arrested a cartel hitman earlier this week who is wanted for series of attacks in this Mexican border city.

The Mexican Army discovered a cartel tunnel at the U.S.-Mexico Border several meters from a newly reinforced barrier. The entry was marked on a commercial property near the Tijuana airport adjacent to Otay Mesa, California.

Three cartel attacks in less than one week left six law enforcement officers dead and one wounded in the states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Mexico.

Four members of a suspected cartel-connected kidnapping cell were arrested over the past weekend in Cancún. They reportedly posed as police detectives.

The murder of a key Sinaloa cartel operative near the Arizona border in Mexico sparked fears of escalated violence with a looming cartel war.

Cartel Gunmen stormed a residence in the southern coastal state of Guerrero and executed the 96-year-old grandmother of a former politician who was previously murdered by suspected cartel gunmen in October 2018.

Security forces seized 7,848 pounds of methamphetamine in three separate actions in northern Mexico within the last week. The busts occurred in the states of Sinaloa and Sonora.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized approximately 280 pounds of methamphetamine with an estimated value of $7 million late last week at the Texas-Mexico border. The cumulative amount was the result of three separate inspections.

Mexican security personnel in the northern state of Sinaloa seized four clandestine methamphetamine labs which are believed connected to the Sinaloa Cartel in the past week. Since 2018, officials busted more than 25 similar labs in the state.

A cartel operative wanted for kidnapping and organized crime-related activities was arrested at the Guadalajara International Airport after he arrived on an inbound flight from the United States this past weekend. The suspect was the subject of numerous threatening narco-banners in Tijuana, accusing him of collaborating with police.

Cartel-fueled violence in the Mexican border cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez continues with multiple daily killings in both cities. The two cities sit along the Mexican border with California and Texas. This year’s number of killings in Tijuana has

A fentanyl and heroin operation in Delaware was busted in a multi-agency investigative effort, resulting in the arrests of two Mexican nationals residing illegally in the United States. Roughly 22 pounds of heroin, 14,000 fake Oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl (Mexican-Oxy), 6.5 pounds of cocaine, and $28,000 were also seized, according to recently unsealed court documents.

Authorities in Sidney seized more than 1,600 pounds of methamphetamine connected to a Mexican cartel earlier this week.

The murders of two teens, a young child, and their uncle in Juárez Sunday morning is now attributed to a cartel turf war. A 30-year-old Texan was also kidnapped in the incident and remains unaccounted for.

A cartel attack in Juárez resulted in the murder of four victims consisting of two teens, a child, and their 25-year-old uncle Sunday morning.

Six people were gunned down by suspected cartel gunmen in the northern border state of Sonora Sunday following a horse racing event. The victims were killed on a remote highway while pulling a trailer.

The Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico (La Secretaría de Marina–SEMAR) has reported a major fentanyl seizure believed to be of multi-ton in the Mexican port city of Lázaro Cárdenas in the state of Michoacán.

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Arizona announced that over 1 million fentanyl pills were seized in the state in Fiscal Year 2019.

A municipal police commander in Empalme, Sonora, was killed by multiple cartel gunmen Monday. The officer was driving his personal vehicle when he was intercepted and shot. He marks the seventeenth officer killed in the border state abutting Arizona in 2019.

Three murder victims were hung from a highway overpass in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua. Another two were discovered dumped at the bottom of a second intersection. All were badly beaten, bound, and displayed signs of torture.

Two fentanyl cooks operating a pill manufacturing plant for the Sinaloa Cartel were captured by security elements.

Mexico City announced a major seizure of more than 34 tons of precursor chemicals and methamphetamine during a weekend raid in Michoacán.

Investigators of the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office arrested 15 members of a Mexican border state municipal police force, including their commander, earlier this week for allegedly protecting drug cartels. The arrests took place in the border state of Chihuahua in the municipality of Ciudad Madera.

Another narco-music signer was killed by cartel gunmen in Tijuana on Tuesday.

A key suspected Sinaloa Cartel operative was arrested during a joint security operation in Nogales, Sonora, late last week during a mid-day raid at a safehouse.

A municipal police officer in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, was killed by multiple cartel gunmen near Arizona. This marks the 16th police death in 2019 for the border state.

Two recently released social media videos reveal the forced interrogations by heavily armed cartel gunmen in Central Mexico. The videos show the acts of terror associated with a bitter cartel turf war between rival criminal gangs in the area.

State police in Tijuana seized nearly 500 pounds of methamphetamine during a traffic stop Thursday.

A brazen Sunday cartel assassination inside a Sonora capital city restaurant is sparking fears of escalated turf violence throughout the Mexican border state abutting Arizona.

A Mexican municipal police commander was gunned down by a cartel gunman in Sonora Sunday. The commander was not on duty when he stood at his front doorway. The murder marks the 15th recorded this year in the border state abutting Arizona.