By Allan Lengel Genaro García Luna, once Mexico’s top security official who was often described as the J. Edgar Hoover of Mexico, was convicted Tuesday in a federal court in Brooklyn of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, the New York Times reports. Following three days of deliberation, a…
CBP said it intercepted a “first-in-nation” pest that was hiding in a shipment of fresh cut flowers.
Less than two years before the DEA quietly removed a former top DEA official from Mexico, he held a lavish birthday party for himself at a mansion in Mexico City.
The DEA quietly removed a former top official in Mexico for allegedly having ties to Miami-based defense attorneys representing accused drug traffickers.
By Steve Neavling A Mexican drug cartel leader on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list was captured in Mexico on Saturday, according to reports. Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernández, also known as “El Gato,” is accused of ordering the 2013 murder of a lawyer in Southlake, Texas. Villarreal-Hernández was taken into custody in an operation that…
Two migrants have been sentenced for assaulting Border Patrol agents in separate incidents in the Rio Grande Valley.
By Steve Neavling One of the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives has been captured in Mexico after working as a yoga instructor under a false identity. Jorge Rueda Landeros, 52, is awaiting extradition to the U.S. to face charges in the killing of a popular professor, Sue Marcum, who was found dead insider her Maryland home in…
A record amount of fentanyl was seized at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022 as overdoses continue to reach alarming levels, according to CBP.
