Mexican state police arrested two Sinaloa cartel operatives in separate law enforcement operations near Mexico’s border with Arizona and California earlier last week. The arrests resulted in the seizure of one handgun and a quantity of methamphetamine according to local media reports.
A shootout between Gulf Cartel gunmen and Mexican military forces sparked fear among residents of Matamoros who were forced to seek cover during the clash.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – Un tiroteo entre miembros del Cártel Del Golfo y las fuerzas militares provocó temor entre los residentes de esta ciudad fronteriza que se vieron obligados a buscar refugio durante el enfrentamiento.
Sicarios y militares mexicanos se enfrentaron en esta ciudad horas antes de que el presidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador visitara Reynosa para impulsar un nuevo plan económico para la franja fronteriza. Se presume que el jefe de plaza del Cartel del Golfo en Nuevo Progreso murió en ese enfrentamiento.
Police in Mexico arrested a cartel assassin wanted in connection with the videotaped torture and execution of a border state police commander and another officer. The arrest followed a shooting at a bar in one of the ritziest suburbs of Northern Mexico. Nuevo Leon police turned the hitman over to Tamaulipas state authorities for prosecution.
Un sicario buscado por la ejecución y tortura de dos policías en Tamaulipas fue arrestado luego de un tiroteo en un bar en uno de los municipios más lujosos del norte de México. El sicario ya se encuentra en aquel estado fronterizo donde enfrenta cargos de homicidio y secuestro por una ejecución que fue grabada en video.
Authorities arrested seven Mexican customs agents as part of an investigation into the smuggling of thousands of ammunition magazines from Texas into Mexico.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – Siete agentes de aduanas mexicanos han sido arrestados como parte de una investigación sobre el contrabando de armas y partes de armas desde Texas a México.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Authorities in this border state are searching for the mayor of a small rural town who has been missing for a week. The town is not far from the main highways that connect the region to international ports of entry and other Mexican states.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León — Un alto mando del narcotráfico que presuntamente desempeñó un papel clave en la planeación del asesinato de un abogado en Dallas enfrenta procedimientos de extradición luego de su reciente captura por parte de autoridades estatales.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – A top-ranking cartel boss who allegedly played a key role in planning the murder of a Dallas attorney is facing extradition to the U.S. after his capture by Mexican state authorities.
Un juez estatal mexicano en Yucatán ordenó la liberación de un mando criminal recientemente capturado, que es buscado en Estados Unidos en relación con una amplia acusación criminal contra líderes de Los Zetas y Cartel del Golfo. La medida fracasó debido a que autoridades federales mexicanas ya habían recibido la notificación de que se estaba realizando una solicitud de extradición y lo volvieron a arrestar.
A Mexican state judge in Yucatan ordered the release of a recently captured cartel leader who is wanted in the U.S. He is wanted in the U.S. in connection to a large criminal indictment targeting the leadership of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. Mexican federal authorities received notice that an extradition request was in the works and rearrested him under federal law.
Mexican authorities are investigating the recent murder of three prison guards who worked at the same facility where guards found a top-ranking cartel boss hanging in his cell.
Mexican authorities arrested a top cartel operator who is linked to the escalation of violence in this border state. The arrest took place in the southeastern state of Yucatan, not far from numerous popular tourist resort towns.
Authorities in Mexico are investigating a grenade attack at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Authorities have not revealed if the attack resulted in any fatalities or injuries.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Un equipo de sicarios secuestró a un veterano del ejército estadounidense, su hermana y su novio en esta ciudad fronteriza. Las autoridades estatales recuperaron el cuerpo de una víctima y rescataron a las otras dos. El veterano militar y su hermana fueron trasladados a un hospital de Texas donde él se encuentra en condición grave.
A team of cartel gunmen kidnapped a U.S. Army veteran, his sister, and her boyfriend in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras. Coahuila state authorities recovered the body of one victim and rescued the two others. Officials transported the U.S. veteran and his sister to a Texas hospital where he is listed in serious condition.
The migrant crisis in Tijuana continues to intensify as migrants flood into the border city which is in the midst of a deadly cartel war that has now registered 2,220 in 2018.
Wolverines quarterback Shea Patterson had a long road to the college gridiron, a road that led through the constant gunfire from Mexican drug cartels on the other side of the Rio Grande from his home in South Texas.
A Mexican federal judge has ruled against the release of a recently captured cartel boss. The man is wanted by U.S. authorities in connection to a high-profile cartel-execution near Dallas.
The U.S. Department of State updated travel advisories warning tourists about increases in crime and violence in certain Mexican states that have reached the same security designation as the Afghanistan war zone.
A team of Gulf Cartel gunmen fleeing from state police set off a manhunt inside a college campus in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. While authorities reported no injuries, the school campus went into a full lockdown as cartel gunmen moved about the hallways in order to escape from authorities.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Un grupo de sicarios del Cártel del Golfo que estaba huyendo de la policía estatal desató una situación tensa dentro de un campus universitario en esta ciudad fronteriza. Si bien no se reportaron heridos, se esparció el pánico dentro de la escuela cuando los sicarios comenzaron a correr por los pasillos en un intento de escapar de las autoridades.
Mexican Federal Police with assistance from the Mexican Navy (SEMAR) and Army (SEDENA) captured René Gerardo Santana Garza, “El 300,” one of the leaders of Los Aztecas. The gang is believed to be responsible for much of the recent cartel bloodshed in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Six decapitated bodies dumped in the border state of Chihuahua last month have been identified as cartel gunmen by Mexican government authorities. They are believed to be victims in an ongoing cartel war between El Nuevo Cártel de Juárez and the Sinaloa Cartel—La Gente Nueva.
The Mexican border city of Tijuana topped 2,000 homicides during the first ten months of 2018, as a cartel war rages. Multiple cartel hits add to historic figures with multiple murders registered daily.
The Mexican Army discovered a weapons arsenal belonging to the Sinaloa Cartel in the border city of Nogales, Sonora, earlier this week.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – El cartel dominante en la región, ordenó a los medios de comunicación de esta ciudad fronteriza que no denuncien o investiguen el reciente asesinato de un exalcalde de la ciudad.
News outlets in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo have been ordered by the dominant drug cartel in the area to not report or dig into the recent murder of a former city mayor.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Manuel Padilla makes the case for securing the southwestern border during an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas Editor-in-Chief Brandon Darby. Chief Padilla details why the U.S. needs to have functional control of its borders and discusses the effectiveness of walls and other technologies.
Sicarios del Cártel del Golfo incendiaron numerosos vehículos, lanzaron ponchallantas y colocaron varios narco-bloqueos a lo largo de las principales calles en esta ciudad fronteriza durante un reciente enfrentamiento con la policía. Las balaceras que duraron varias horas son las mas recientes de una serie de enfrentamientos que han sacudido la región.
Gulf Cartel gunmen set fire to numerous vehicles, threw road spikes, and placed several blockades throughout the streets of the Mexican border city of Reynosa. The hours-long gun battles with law enforcement are the latest in an ongoing series of clashes that have rocked the region.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Los enfrentamientos violentos entre sicarios del Cártel del Golfo y oficiales de la policía estatal continúan siendo un evento regular en esta ciudad fronteriza. Los periodistas ciudadanos siguen siendo los únicos que documentan las condiciones en que los residentes locales se ven obligados a vivir, donde el sonido de los disparos automáticos se ha convertido en algo común.
Violent clashes between Gulf Cartel Gunmen and state police officers continue to be a regular event in the Mexican border city of Reynosa. Citizen journalists continue to be the only ones documenting the conditions that local residents are forced to live in, where the sound of automatic gunfire has become commonplace.
Un grupo de sicarios del Cártel del Golfo llevo a cabo una emboscada contra oficiales de la policía del estado de Tamaulipas que patrullaban las carreteras. Un oficial de policía resultó herido, y no está claro si algún pistolero del cártel resultó herido o muerto en el ataque.
Gunmen with Mexico’s Gulf Cartel carried out a brazen ambush against Tamaulipas State Police officers who were patrolling the highways. Gunmen injured one officer while it remains unclear if any cartel gunmen were injured or killed in the attack.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León – Los sicarios del Cartel del Golfo rastrearon y asesinaron a una mujer que se cree fue uno de los ex-miembros que se había huido y refugiado en este estado fronterizo. Los ejecutores del cártel dejaron el cuerpo de la mujer en un camino de trerraceria y usaron un cuchillo para apuñalar en su espalda una cartulina con varias amenazas.
Gulf Cartel hitmen tracked down and murdered a woman who is believed to be one of their former members who had gone into hiding in the Mexican border state of Nuevo León. The cartel gunmen left the woman’s body on a dirt road and used a knife to stab a posterboard riddled with numerous threats.
Cartel violence in the Mexican border state of Sonora continues to escalate. Officials report 31 homicides in the capital city of Hermosillo in September — 52 more in Ciudad Obregón. The killings make the month the state’s most violent of 2018.
