Police in Cancún apprehended a leader of a cartel hit-team wanted for multiple killings following a shootout. The gun battle with the ministerial police on Thursday left one female cartel operative dead.
Mexican authorities are investigating the murder of 14 victims, including an infant, during a party in the coastal state of Veracruz. The murder marks the latest episode of violence in a region where cartel gunmen openly challenge Mexico’s government and appear to surpass the capabilities of police agencies.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Un equipo de sicarios dejó una narco-amenaza junto al cuerpo de una víctima que habían ejecutado en en esta ciudad fronteriza. El mensaje es similar a otros dejados anteriormente, donde sicarios con Los Zetas advierten a la población que no informe sobre el cartel y que no trabaje con las autoridades estatales.
A team of cartel gunmen left a threatening message next to the body of a murder victim in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, near the Texas border.
Officers with the Federal Investigative Police killed six cartel operatives during an exchange of gunfire as the officers attempted to serve an arrest warrant in the border state of Sonora.
A team of cartel gunmen attacked a squad of Coahuila state police officers in a rural community near the Texas border. No injuries or deaths were reported officially and the gunmen managed to escape through a series of dirt roads despite a series of manhunts by authorities.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas –Sicarios y halcones del Cártel del Golfo de México establecieron una serie de bloqueos y lanzaron picos en las carreteras cerrando todo el tráfico y paralizando esta ciudad fronteriza. El motivo de la operación masiva no está claro, ya que las autoridades no han confirmado ningún arresto importante en la región en dicha fecha.
A three-time deported illegal alien with alleged ties to a Mexican cartel pleaded guilty in a New Mexico court on Monday to charges related to the attempted murder of a Border Patrol agent in 2017. The court dismissed aggravated battery and assault charges as part of a plea agreement. The court also dismissed a second criminal case against the man.
Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday testified before the House Appropriations Committee on the myriad challenges festering at the U.S.-Mexico border, describing the overall situation as “really unprecedented.” “really unprecedented.”
Cartel-related drug violence continues in the border city of Tijuana with 21 killings registered in less than a 48-hour period. Those deaths include three bodies abandoned in a burning vehicle.
Federal authorities in the Mexican border city of Matamoros raided a clandestine nursery where they found more than 790 marijuana plants.
Un equipo de sicarios del cártel desarmó y secuestró a un escuadrón de 11 policías en el estado de Puebla. Los sicarios liberaron a los oficiales de policía horas más tarde, tras una serie de fuertes operativos de búsqueda y rescate, no se han logrado arrestos en el caso.
A team of cartel gunmen disarmed and kidnapped a squad of 11 police officers in the state of Puebla. The gunmen released the police officers hours later after government officials set off multiple search and rescue operations. No arrests have been made.
Sicarios en México han estado utilizando lanzagranadas, dispositivos incendiarios metralletas y otras armas de alto poder en los últimos enfrentamientos de una feroz guerra por el control de territorios clave de narcotráfico que se encuentran inmediatamente al sur de la frontera de Texas. A pesar de que la violencia está fuera de control, los residentes afirman que militares de una base cercana del Ejército Mexicano ignoraron en gran medida las batallas con armas.
Cartel gunmen in Mexico used grenade launchers, improvised explosive devices, and incendiary devices in the latest clashes of a fierce war for control of key drug smuggling territories immediately south of the Texas Border. Despite the out of control violence, residents claim that soldiers from a nearby Mexican Army base largely ignored the gun battles.
A group of cartel gunmen shot a local businessman, his son, and his daughter in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, in what authorities believe is a failed extortion operation. The family is not believed to be tied to either one of the drug cartels operating in the city.
Autoridades mexicanas están investigando el descubrimiento de 19 cuerpos que fueron envueltos en bolsas de plástico negras y tirados en un canal en el área metropolitana de Guadalajara, Jalisco. Este es el segundo descubrimiento de varios cuerpos en los últimos días después de que sicarios arrojaron otros siete cuerpos cerca de una carretera.
Mexican authorities are investigating the discovery of 19 bodies that were wrapped in black plastic bags and dumped into a canal in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, Jalisco. This is the second discovery of multiple bodies after cartel gunmen recently dumped seven other bodies near a highway.
Three Mexican state police officers assigned to a special operations group in the border state of Chihuahua were killed after being ambushed by cartel gunmen. The gunmen attacked the police officers with rifle fire and grenades on Friday. This deadly confrontation also left two other police officers wounded and five cartel gunmen dead.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – Elementos militares asignados a esta ciudad fronteriza abatieron a seis sicarios del Cartel Del Noreste tras ser atacados. Los militares decomisaron rifles calibre .50, metralletas, equipo táctico y varias camionetas presuntamente robadas.
Military troops assigned to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, killed six gunmen from a faction of Los Zetas during fierce gun battles. After the shootout with the gunmen from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, the military seized.50 caliber rifles, machine guns, tactical equipment, and several allegedly stolen trucks.
Mexican authorities are investigating a fatal crash that killed 23 Central American migrants and injured 33 in the southern state of Chiapas. The migrants had been packed into a large cargo truck that went off the road falling into a ravine.
Mexican authorities are Investigating an overnight massacre at a bar in the state of Guanajuato. The attack left 14 men dead and 7 others injured. No arrests have been made.
Cartel gunmen murdered a municipal police director from the Mexican city of Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, while driving into the state capital on Tuesday. The attack occurred at approximately 2 p.m. as he drove his duty vehicle along the highway into the city of Chihuahua accompanied by a bodyguard who gunmen also murdered.
Four cartel gunmen carrying rifles and handguns stormed into a bar in the tourist resort city of Cancun and began firing indiscriminately. The attack on Friday left five dead and 12 others injured.
Mexican authorities in the western coastal state of Colima have discovered 69 bodies in a series of mass graves. Cartel gunmen used the graves to dispose of their victims. The discovery came after two cartel gunmen led authorities to the site in hopes of receiving a lesser sentence.
Kidnappers in the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz dumped the body of a woman in a vacant lot inside of a garbage bag after her husband could not pay a ransom of 4 million pesos ($200,000 USD). The kidnappers also left a taunting message to the victim’s husband blaming not paying for his wife’s death.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Las autoridades en esta ciudad fronteriza están investigando la ejecución de un hombre local cuyo cuerpo fue encontrado justo detrás del refugio para migrantes donde más de 1700 miembros de la caravana Hondurena esperan para solicitar asilo en Texas. La víctima que llevaba varias semanas medio enterrada cuando fue descubierta, no es un migrante.
Authorities in Mexico are investigating the execution of a local man after finding his body just behind a shelter where more than 1700 caravan migrants are housed. The half-buried victim is not a migrant and had been there for several weeks before authorities found his remains. The caravan migrants are waiting for an opportunity to claim asylum in Texas.
The discovery took place this week in an open field just behind the migrant shelter when authorities came across the
Las autoridades mexicanas arrestaron a un migrante guatemalteco luego de que colgara una manta que amenazaba al presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Se cree que el sospechoso fue parte de una de las caravanas de migrantes que llegaron anteriormente a la ciudad y ya fue entregado a las autoridades federales mexicanas.
Mexican authorities arrested a Guatemalan migrant after allegedly catching him hanging a cartel banner threatening Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The suspect is believed to be part of one of the migrant caravans. Police turned him over to Mexican federal authorities.
New Mexico ranchers and other residents along unsecured sections of the state’s border with Mexico claim fear of retaliation if they report crimes like drug or human smuggling. Residents of the region known as the “Bootheel” witnessed increases in both drug and human smuggling during the past few months.
Cartel gunmen murdered a police Chief from a small town that borders the popular tourist port of San Carlos Bay, in Guaymas Sonora. The attack occurred as he drove his duty vehicle along a local street last week.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Sicarios del Cártel del Golfo arrojaron los cadáveres de tres de sus víctimas a lo largo de una de las carreteras en esta ciudad fronteriza desatando un gran despliegue de fuerzas policiales para asegurar la escena del crimen. La violencia llega en un momento en que facciones rivales del Cartel del Golfo continúan su lucha por el control de la región fronteriza.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Gulf Cartel gunmen dumped the bodies of three victims along one of the highways in this border city. A large deployment of police forces responded to secure the crime scene. The violence comes at a time when rival factions of the Gulf Cartel continue their fight for control of the border region.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León – Un alto mando del Cartel del Golfo de México fracasó en su intento de sobornar a algunos policías federales que lo detuvieron con drogas y armas en su vehículo mientras intentaba llegar a la frontera con Texas.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – A top lieutenant with Mexico’s Gulf Cartel failed in his attempt to bribe federal police officers who caught him with drugs and weapons in his vehicle. The arrest occurred as he tried to reach the Texas border with a large quantity of cocaine.
The United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, issued a security alert following a series of coordinated attacks against police officers in that city and for Ciudad De Chihuahua. Gunmen carried out the attacks on January 17.
The Attorney General’s Office for the Mexican border state of Sonora confirmed for the first time that an investigation is underway in the kidnapping of six victims which occurred on December 26, 2018.
Mexico’s government confirmed the death of 66 people and dozens more injured following a fuel explosion in the state of Hidalgo. An attempt to illegally tap into a fuel line to steal gallons of fuel is currently listed as the cause of the explosion.
