A former CBP officer pleaded guilty to letting undocumented people into the U.S. and accepting bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed was several kilograms of cocaine to be smuggled into the country.
After migrant crossings hit record numbers last year, federal authorities say encounters significantly dropped in January.
A longtime Mexican drug trafficker accused of helping transport tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. over the span of four decades was sentenced Friday to 21 years and 10 months in prison.
Mexican authorities have arrested the alleged security chief of the Sinaloa cartel who is accused of ruthlessly protecting the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
A former investigator for the ATF at the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana is accused of smuggling guns into Mexico while working for the agency in 2017, Reuters reports.
A 71-year-old Mexican national was sentenced to one year in prison for bribing a Homeland Security Investigations agent, the Justice Department announced this week.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, a son of former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has been extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking, money laundering and other charges, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in a statement.
The FBI is investigating a group of more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as asylum seekers with the assistance of a smuggler with ties to ISIS, CNN reports.
