The Justice Department has begun turning over long-secret audio recordings tied to the 1985 torture and killing of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena to the legal team of Rafael Caro Quintero, a former Mexican drug lord charged in the case.
A hacker working for drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán helped the Sinaloa Cartel track an FBI agent and monitor potential informants, according to a federal watchdog report released Thursday.
Federal agents have shut down a nearly 3,000-foot-long tunnel connecting Tijuana and San Diego that officials say was being built to smuggle drugs into the U.S.
Federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who is accused of leading a violent drug empire and orchestrating the 1985 torture and killing of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday praised Mexican authorities for capturing and turning over Francisco Javier Román Bardales, an alleged senior leader of the violent MS-13 gang and one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives.
Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have fallen to their lowest levels in decades, leaving once-packed migrant shelters nearly empty and prompting more people stranded in Mexico to return home.
In an effort to tackle the growing fentanyl crisis and curb the influence of Mexican drug cartels, the Trump administration has appointed veteran counternarcotics agent Derek Maltz as the acting administrator of the DEA.
Border Patrol agents in western Texas have been warned of potential gunfire from members of the Sinaloa Cartel following the July arrest of two of its high-profile leaders, according to an internal memo.
