Luisana Moreno

A Texas border city police officer will spend 8 years in prison for his role in protecting a drug stash house. The cop rented out a home to suspected smugglers and even offered his police vehicle for transportation security.

Two cartel-connected human smugglers in Texas received lengthy prison sentences for kidnapping four migrants for days, threatening them with firearms, and demanding large ransoms from their loved ones.

A U.S. Army sergeant stationed at Fort Hood will spend six years in prison for using social media to set up the sale of thousands of fentanyl pills in central Texas. Federal prosecutors linked the soldier to a wave of local overdoses.

A group of men from Mexico who tried to trek through rough Texas mountains with bundles of drugs are facing lengthy prison sentences after receiving a conviction on federal drug trafficking charges.

Several cartel-connected individuals received lengthy prison sentences for their roles in smuggling large quantities of meth and heroin from Mexico to Texas.

A convicted human smuggler will spend close to five years in prison for his role in a high-speed chase near an elementary school. The ensuing crash left six people injured, including innocent motorists.

An Army National Guardsman will spend more than four years in prison for using his position to traffic loads of cocaine from Mexico into Texas.

A Houston woman pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle 89 pounds of liquid meth in aloe bottles from Mexico. The woman used her children during the attempt to distract law enforcement.

A 12-foot alligator surprised locals in a Houston, Texas, suburb as it slowly walked through a residential neighborhood this week. Authorities were able to capture and relocate the 400-pound gator to a wildlife sanctuary.

A Texas physician’s assistant who had his license suspended for sexual contacts with patients now faces Medicaid fraud charges.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The top executive of a local shelter for unaccompanied migrants faces federal fraud charges for allegedly using public grants and other funds to cover personal real state purchases and lease-backs. At least two other unnamed individuals are expected to be arrested in the coming days in connection with the case.

A U.S. federal court sentenced a Salvadoran man to nearly four years in prison for his role in helping his wife and her boyfriend smuggle weapons and ammunition into Mexico. In one of the smuggling attempts, the group tried to send more than 13,000 rounds of ammunition across the Texas-Mexico.

Federal authorities seized more than 1,500 pounds of cocaine hidden inside a tractor-trailer supposedly carrying a shipment of baby wipes. The bust was one of several large batches intercepted by authorities at the Texas border in recent days.

A Mexican national illegally living in Zapata, Texas, will spend more than five years in prison for threatening people with a loaded revolver. The man was a convicted felon prior to the incident.

Two MS-13 gang members and an underage teenager also linked to the gang, are accused of using sex to lure and kidnap a man at a hotel in New York State.

A South Texas man will spend five years in prison for smuggling 31 migrants inside a frigid trailer. The smuggler hid the migrants inside a refrigerated trailer behind a load of broccoli bound for Florida.

Schools across Texas are now hanging signs saying “In God We Trust” after a new state law approved the displays, if they are donated to campuses.

A Texas border city mayor pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges for using his position as a local school administrator to rig a contract for his benefit.

A former U.S. Army soldier recently pleaded guilty to federal charges concerning the sexual abuse of a 6-year-old child. He has a history of other sexual assaults against children and is facing multiple state charges for those cases. At the time of the abuses, the soldier was on active duty and stationed in Fort Bliss near the Texas-Mexico border.

A convicted Texas drug dealer will spend 25 years in prison for his role in distributing large quantities of cocaine around Corpus Christi. Authorities learned of the drug operation after a shootout with rivals revealed that his house doubled as a storefront.

A human smuggler from Mexico who is serving an eight-year sentence in a federal prison received an additional two-year prison sentence for having tried to escape.

A man in Louisiana is facing various drug charges and wildlife violations after authorities found him with too many sharks in his boat and an undisclosed amount of methamphetamine.

A former Texas sixth grade teacher will spend two months in prison for having a three-year relationship with one of her students, who was between the ages of 12 and 15 at the time. She will be given until June 2023 to surrender for her brief prison sentence due to the recent birth of her child.

An Egyptian national faces trial in Texas over the alleged murders of his two daughters as “honor killings” due to their non-Muslim boyfriends.

A man from El Paso, Texas, pleaded guilty to kidnapping, burning, and disposing of the body of a man believed to have stolen drugs.

Mexico’s president claims the U.S. government is funding environmental groups attempting to block one of his pet projects — a rail project near the resort of Cancun. As a result, this week, he reclassified the project as one of national security importance.

A federal officer will spend two years in prison for his role in helping a group of men smuggle liquor and medicine into Texas. In trade, the smugglers fixed the officer’s lawnmower and other handyman tasks.

Migrant farmworkers in the U.S. are having to travel to Mexico to purchase baby formula due to a lingering, widespread shortage.

An illegal alien from Mexico pleaded guilty to trying to drive a tractor-trailer carrying 85 migrants through a Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas. The individuals inside suffered from suffocatingly high temperatures. The smuggling attempt came weeks before 53 migrants died in another trailer.

A federal jury convicted a Texas trucker for trying to smuggle 124 migrants in a tractor-trailer past a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. As a defense, the driver claimed he did not know there were migrants in the vehicle.

A 72-year-old El Paso man who has a prosthetic leg will spend 15 years in prison for his role in trying to rob a bank at gunpoint.

Authorities in the Mexican beach hotspot of Cancun will investigate social media posts that spread false information about violence in the region that scares away tourists.

A disability rights group filed a federal lawsuit against a Texas border school district over its refusal to turn over records related to complaints of alleged abuse against toddlers and young children. The district has a history of corruption and even saw board members land in federal prisons as a result.

A federal grand jury in Texas handed down indictments against four men in connection with a June failed smuggling attempt that killed 53 migrants. Two of the men are from Mexico and were in the country illegally.

Mexico’s President mocked the Biden Administration with a popular song about how scared he was over an energy dispute tied to the USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada Agreement).

An illegal alien from Honduras will spend more than 26 years in prison for his role as the leader of a rip-crew that targeted game rooms, cartel drugs, human smugglers, and even kidnapped migrants for ransom over a decade.