Officials found the remains of the four kidnapped municipal police officers on Wednesday morning. A team of cartel gunmen in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua kidnapped them on July 14. The four municipal police officers responded to a disturbance call at “La Presa El Tigre” — the Tigre Dam — when the group of cartel gunmen carried out the kidnapping.
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.
A former Mexican journalist is fighting deportation after his claims for asylum were denied by an immigration judge and his appeals were also turned down. While the case has garnered much attention from international press freedom groups, found him unconvincing.
Cartel turf wars in Chihuahua have claimed the lives of two local police chiefs within a week.
Un equipo de sicarios entro a un restaurante para ejecutar al jefe policiaco de uno de los municipios del estado fronterizo de Chihuahua. El ataque parece ser un incremento de la violencia que continua creciendo en el estado donde el Cartel de Juarez y el Cartel de Sinaloa se disputan el control territorial.
A team of gunmen entered a restaurant to execute a local police chief in the Mexican State of Chihuahua. The attack appears to be an escalation of the violence between the Juarez and the Sinaloa Cartels for regional control.
The border state of Chihuahua continues to be a hotbed for violence where cartel gunmen carry out ambushes and attacks on law enforcement officials. The attacks on authorities appear to be an effort to keep law enforcement out of the ongoing fight for control of the state’s lucrative drug trafficking territories and routes.
The power vacuum felt following the arrest of a top regional cartel boss is likely to cause a spike–or at least sustain–the ongoing violence rocking the Mexican border state of Chihuahua.
Mexican authorities continue looking into the recent murder of a key federal intelligence agent who operated in the violent border state of Chihuahua. During the assassination attempt, the gunmen also killed the agent’s mother.
Authorities in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, arrested an alleged hitman for Los Aztecas gang suspected in nearly 30 cartel assassinations–including one carried out at a local barbershop.
At least 16 victims were gunned down inside a drug rehabilitation center in the Mexican state of Chihuahua by heavily armed cartel hitmen wearing tactical gear.
A dangerous cell of the Sinaloa Cartel dubbed Gente Nueva del Tigre, from the border state of Chihuahua, joined efforts to help the victims of the Mexico City earthquake by donating emergency supplies and food.
Gunmen from the Los Zetas cartel who broke out of the state prison in Tamaulipas traveled to this border state to push drugs and carry out ransom kidnappings.
At least 15 gunmen were killed during a fierce clash between the Sinaloa cartel and their rivals, La Linea, in the southern part of Chihuahua.
El Paso police arrested the Texas mother of a four-year-old boy found wandering in Mexico late February. They believe the woman abandoned her child.
The former governor of Chihuahua is believed to be hiding out in El Paso, Texas, to avoid facing multiple corruption charges in his state.
A man in Puerto Rico was sentenced to seven years in prison for allegedly biting off the head of his girlfriend’s Chihuahua and punching his girlfriend.
The murder of a respected journalist in the Mexican state of Chihuahua appears to be driven by her work exposing the close ties between government officials and the Juarez Cartel. One of those investigations pointed to the mother-in-law of a cartel boss trying to run for mayor, while others looked into how the former governor of that state protected certain criminal organizations.
A Mexican cartel appears to be behind the murder of a respected journalist in the border state of Chihuahua. At the crime scene, cartel members left a note stating that the murder was due to her reporting.
Citizen journalists in the rural communities of Chihuahua recorded scenes of despair caused by a fierce clash between members of the Juarez Cartel. The fighting left at least eight people dead and four police officers injured.
A Fontana resident faces charges of animal cruelty after his Chihuahua allegedly digested methamphetamine and went into convulsions.
A Mexican border governor may have assets seized by a Spanish court after a judge ruled against him in the allegations that he used public funds to pay a personal debt.
Pope Francis I celebrated Mass on the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexican border, made the sign of the cross, and blessed the people gathered there in Ciudad Juarez. He then called for governments and others to have “open hearts” to the “tragedy that is forced migration.”
On Saturday morning, a 48-year-man with a lengthy criminal record chose an unusual place to abuse his dog: the lobby of the South Pasadena police station.
Taco the Chihuahua mix is the ninth known dog in California’s Antelope Valley and Kern County to be a victim of chemical burns since August
A 3-year-old Chihuahua in Chula Vista, California who died on the operating table was brought back to life by a veterinarian who refused to give up on her. Julietta died on Tuesday, but Dr. Juli Maher gave her a second chance at life.
