Authorities and news outlets remained quiet amid the dramatic rise in cartel executions throughout a coastal state in Mexico. The fearsome Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion is decimating their rivals while carrying out dramatic executions.
Las autoridades y los medios de comunicación se han mantenido en silencio en medio del aumento dramático de las narco-ejecuciones en todo un estado costero en México, donde el temible Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación continua diezmando a sus rivales.
Authorities and news outlets remained quiet amid the dramatic rise in cartel executions throughout a coastal state in Mexico. The fearsome Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion is decimating their rivals while carrying out dramatic executions.
Seis sicarios murieron durante un enfrentamiento con agentes de la policía estatal mexicana en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas. El tiroteo es parte de un nuevo aumento en la violencia que ha comenzado a extenderse por la parte oriental de Tamaulipas.
Six cartel gunmen died during a clash with Mexican state police officers in the border state of Tamaulipas. The shootout is part of a new uptick in violence that is spreading around the eastern part of Tamaulipas.
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.
Un grupo de sicarios de Los Zetas que viajaban en camionetas blindados y portaban rifles calibre .50, ametralladoras y explosivos enfrentaron y corretearon a un grupo de policías de Nuevo León que habían ingresado brevemente a la ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo en Tamaulipas. Tres oficiales sufrieron varias heridas en el ataque, y Los Zetas lograron incendiar uno de los vehículos de la policía. Las autoridades estatales están tratando de minimizar el ataque alegando que Los Zetas no usaron lanzagranadas o lanzacohetes, a pesar de que varias fuentes policiales confirmaron a este medio el uso de artefactos explosivos.
A group of Los Zetas gunmen riding in armored trucks while carrying .50 caliber rifles, machine guns, and explosives chased a squad of Nuevo Leon police officers out of the cartel’s territory. The police briefly entered the border city of Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas. State officials are trying to downplay the attack claiming that Los Zetas did not use grenade launchers or RGP’s, despite multiple law enforcement sources confirming the use of explosive devices.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued 28 migrants, including 14 children, from the swiftly moving currents of the Rio Grande. Smugglers abandoned the migrants in the strong waist-deep currents during an illegal border crossing.
Mexican authorities arrested a man wanted in the United States by the FBI for his role in supporting Islamic terrorist organizations.
Dos desertores del Ejército mexicano han sido vinculados a 13 ejecuciones por orden del Cártel del Golfo en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas. Los nuevos arrestos resaltan el problema de que tropas militares y policías mexicanos cambian sus uniformes por trabajos mejor pagados como sicarios de cárteles mexicanos de la droga.
Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported Mexican child rapist who illegally re-entered the U.S. in Arizona. In a separate incident, Border Patrol agents in Texas arrested a French citizen wanted in his home country for murder.
Two Mexican Army deserters were linked to 13 executions under orders of the Gulf Cartel in Tamaulipas. The new arrests highlight concerns over military and police personnel switching sides for higher-paying jobs as hitmen.
Another narco-music signer was killed by cartel gunmen in Tijuana on Tuesday.
A California federal jury convicted three men for trafficking nearly $17 million in cocaine off the coast of Mexico. The men face a possible life sentence later this year.
One day after Los Zetas Cartel gunmen used armored trucks, machine guns, and grenades to invade the border city of Miguel Aleman, the Tamaulipas Governor announced he would challenge the violent perpetrators directly.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a group of 12 migrants who became stranded in the middle of the swiftly moving currents of the Rio Grande. The group included at least one infant and five older children.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas charged three Laredo men with allegedly crashing their vehicles while smuggling migrants to avoid arrest. Officials report a total of 29 migrants smuggled in the three pursuits which resulted in serious crashes.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday that he will ask President Donald Trump to use his $5 billion set aside for border wall construction to combat gun violence and white supremacy.
Officials in Texas report that four more migrants died recently after being abandoned by human smugglers on ranches near the Mexican border. At least 155 migrants have been found dead while or shortly after crossing the border from Mexico into Texas in 2019.
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.
MIGUEL ALEMAN, Tamaulipas – Una serie de nuevas balaceras paralizo la ciudad fronteriza de Miguel Alemán, cuando convoyes de sicarios de Los Zetas ingresaron a la ciudad en un intento de arrebatar el control de la región del Cártel del Golfo. El miedo se esparció entre los civiles cuando vieron una vez más monstruos o vehículos blindadosdeambulando por las calles.
MIGUEL ALEMAN, Tamaulipas – New gun battles are paralyzing the border city of Miguel Aleman as convoys from Los Zetas work to wrest control of the region from the Gulf Cartel. Citizens panicked as they saw makeshift armored vehicles on their streets once again.
McALLEN, Texas – A Mexican Army officer will spend 37 months in a U.S. prison for trying to smuggle a suitcase containing 57 pounds of cocaine through an international port of entry.
Officials from the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) say that Tuesday’s shootings at two federal facilities were each a “targeted attack.” A shooter fired multiple rounds at two ICE facilities in San Antonio, Texas, early on Tuesday morning.
Mexican authorities are looking into the seizure of more than 100 pounds of crystal meth and two pounds of heroin in the border city of Matamoros, just south of Brownsville, Texas. The shipment was originally intended for several U.S. distribution routes, all part of a network controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
HOUSTON, Texas — Police arrested six protesters at a migrant children’s detention center Tuesday. This is the second protest at the center in less than a month.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents seized heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine in three separate incidents at California inland border security checkpoints.
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.
The Department of Veterans Affairs pulled all residents from an assisted living home in Van Nuys, California, after finding a veteran who had been dead for four days. The incident followed several complaints of mistreatment in the region.
The trial for a former Eagle Scout accused of making millions of dollars in an online opioid distribution scheme faced a Utah jury on Monday. He is accused of importing fentanyl from China and then making knockoff oxycodone and Xanax pills.
