During the first week of October, Breitbart Texas cameras returned to Roma, Texas, to see how human smuggling changed since Fiscal Year 2019, when almost a million migrants were apprehended crossing the border between ports of entry. At this time, they sought out law enforcement–not make efforts to elude them.
Breitbart Texas’ cameras return to Roma, Texas, after the Los Zetas Cartel now controls Miguel Aleman, the small Mexican community sitting across the Rio Grande. Exclusive video from local law enforcement in Texas shows heavily armed smugglers at a drop point near Hebbronville, Texas. In this episode of Tripwires and Triggers, we analyze how Los Zetas took their new turf and what that will mean for Mexicans and Americans alike living in the vicinity.
Over the course of a week, law enforcement in Roma, Texas, documented two armed human smuggling incidents. One is particularly raising eyebrows among authorities.
On September 26, two law enforcement agencies in Roma, Texas, were alerted to a camera image which captured migrants who had just crossed the Mexican border illegally. The image documented how they ran toward a red, four-door GMC truck. The vehicle was parked in the middle of a street.
A video obtained from law enforcement officials in Texas shows what appears to be a heavily armed Mexican cartel conducting a human smuggling operation. Officials indicated the smuggler’s drop off point was near Hebbronville, Texas, about 80 miles from the border with Mexico.
On Sunday morning, the Roma Police Department received a call from a concerned citizen observing people reportedly being smuggled into a residence located at the 400 block of Allende Avenue in that south Texas border town.
The highest-ranking U.S. law enforcement official is laying direct blame on the Mexican cartels for the recent surge in methamphetamine. By naming specific cartels, the attorney general marks a coming evolution in Washington’s stance.
Throughout Fiscal Year 2020, Breitbart Texas extensively tracked the record-setting Mexican cartel methamphetamine and fentanyl seizures intended to reach into the U.S. One question that remains difficult to answer is the amount of illicit narcotics that were successfully smuggled. One benchmark for law enforcement agencies is seizure data of bulk currency normally traveling south.
On September 2, 2020, an FBI report exclusively obtained by Breitbart Texas stated the U.S.-based California Mexican Mafia was having difficulty obtaining methamphetamine from cartels due to COVID-19 complications.
Breitbart Texas’ Border and Cartel Chronicles Team documents the long trek of ultra-marathon human smuggling routes across the world ending within the United States in episode two of Tripwires and Triggers. We walk you through the deplorable conditions, exorbitant fees, the human misery of stash houses, and the exploitation of people by cartels and other criminal organizations in Mexico and closer to home.
On Friday, September 4, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan held his monthly operational update with the media from Laredo, Texas. The August statistics marked the highest to date for Fiscal Year 2020 in the category methamphetamine seizures.
On August 24, a video was released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief Patrol Agent Aaron M. Heitke from the San Diego Sector. The video showed a panga boat landing on the beach in Encinitas, California. Over a dozen people can be seen scrambling into a local neighborhood.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials report the disruption of more than 160 human smuggling stash house operations this fiscal year just in South Texas. The data provides a rare glimpse into the level of Mexican cartel stash house operations occurring in this region alone.
In September 2019, residents of Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, once again took up arms as a self-defense militia to protect their city and families as they faced attacks from Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). Since that time, war has raged.
On August 20 at approximately 1:30 pm local time, Border Patrol agents in Rio Grande City were working in an area known as Eagles Landing. The area is well known as a narcotics and human smuggling corridor for the Gulf Cartel. They observed 11 people on the Mexican side of the river approaching the bank. Agents also noticed them carrying nine large bundles. As they entered the river and crossed the Rio Grande, the suspects hastily approached a white SUV parked on the U.S. side and began loading the vehicle.
At approximately 8:00 am Sunday, a gun battle was heard at the riverbank near the small community of Miguel Aleman, Mexico, opposite Roma, Texas.
On July 27, agents with the Atlanta DEA office in collaboration with other federal agencies executed multiple search warrants at apartments and houses believed to be acting as stash and distribution spots for the metro area. The seized items were publicly displayed this week and are officially believed to amount to the largest heroin bust in Georgia’s history.
In the early part of Fiscal Year 2020, Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles team began focusing coverage on methamphetamine seizures at the southwestern border regions. Increases in seizure data represented a significant tripwire from normal production amounts. Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel are responsible for the incline in Mexico this year, which resulted in unprecedented seizures of product.
Across the Sonoran Desert and to the border city of Nogales, terror consumes the state of Sonora and blood continues to be spilled in the name of Rafael Caro Quintero. The Quintero family lifeblood of smuggling goes back decades in this region.
On July 20 at approximately 5:30 am local time, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station observed a pickup truck near the Rio Grande in Fronton. The vehicle was spotted parking near a new wall construction site. Several individuals were seen loading items onto the back of the truck and then proceeded toward Highway 83.
As Hurricane Hanna arrived in south Texas, Border Patrol agents were still getting alerted to drug and human smuggling attempts.
An in-depth discussion dealing with the recently released video by the “elite group” of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG).
Rio Grande Valley Sector U.S. Border Patrol agents and Hidalgo County Constables Office (HCCO) Precinct 4 deputies teamed up to disrupt a stash house operation occurring in a rural neighborhood near Mission, Texas.
Speaking during a presidential news conference this week, Mexican National Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval detailed facts officially known about an “elite group” of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) after new videos about them circulated last Friday.
On Tuesday, President López Obrador reverted to the assertion that his administration “won’t declare war” on cartels in response to several Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) videos that show a clear escalation in military-grade weapons and armor.
Breitbart Texas obtained video on Friday showing what appears to be a battalion-sized unit of specialized gunmen in heavily armored vehicles with the Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). The footage presents the group as an elite special forces unit.
U.S. Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande Valley Sector received information regarding a group of migrants being held against their will by armed human smugglers. The smugglers held the migrants in a stash house located in Rio Grande City, Texas. Agents notified the Starr County Sheriff’s Office and CBP Air and Marine Operations and requested assistance.
More than 73,200 people in Mexico are now missing without a trace.
On July 4 at approximately 7:30 am, Border Patrol agents working in the Rio Grande City station responded to a smuggling event in Escobares, Texas, at the banks of the river.
On July 12 at approximately 4:00pm, a Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper was conducting a routine patrol in Rio Grande City when a drawbridge camera system detected a smuggling event near Midway Cemetery.
Drug seizures jumped 50 percent in June under the combined efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s officers and agents. Included in these is a nearly 70 percent increase in cocaine and a 151 percent rise in fentanyl.
Law enforcement in Mexico killed 12 Los Zetas gunmen after an attack on Mexican soldiers in the neighborhood of Los Fresnos, near Nuevo Laredo. Military personnel from the 16th Regiment conducting routine patrols came under attack during an ambush by members
Border Patrol Agents, while responding to a large drug load crossing into the U.S., discovered a message from Los Zetas Cartel over the past weekend.
Illegally cultivated grow farms in California and Washington state are operated by Chinese nationals, according to a report from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) is estimated to have more than 5,000 operatives working on every continent save Antarctica. The cartel is believed to have amassed a $50 billion fortune and smuggles at least five tons of methamphetamine into the U.S. monthly, according to DEA estimates.
It appears the group Anonymous and their Antifa affiliates hacked ten years’ worth of data from fusion centers and police departments across the United States. The groups claim hundreds of thousands of law enforcement sensitive bulletins are in their hands.
News of the prison transfer for Miguel Angel Trevino aka “Z-40,” the hyperviolent supreme leader of Los Zetas Cartel, to a supermax facility surfaced this week.
A border wall construction crew reported rounds fired at their position and at least one shot impacted their site Thursday morning in South Texas.
An internal rift is underway between the two largest sects of the Sinaloa Cartel. The effects have the potential to be far-reaching into the organization’s global operations over the coming months. The primary agitators are the hyper-violent sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, known as “Los Chapitos” against their senior, Ismael “El Mayo or Mayo” Zambada Garcia.
Criminals in Mexico City devised a brazen method to force a female bank employee to steal $14 million pesos while wearing an explosive belt.
