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Special Units
Juarez Cartel Member Extradited To U.S. For Drug Trial
Purported Juarez Cartel associate Felipe Dominguez-Vargas has been extradited from Mexico to stand trial on federal drug trafficking charges.
August 17, 2010
Special Units
Juarez Cartel Leader Gets Life In U.S. Consulate Murders
The former Mexican police officer and Juarez Cartel leader who ordered the murders of three U.S. Consulate officials in 2010 was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty today.
April 5, 2012
Special Units
Arrest of Juarez Cartel's Alleged No. 2, Vicente Carrillo Leyva, Seen as Big Break
The arrest of Vicente Carrillo Leyva, considered the No. 2 leader of the Juárez drug cartel, is a breakthrough in the Mexican government's crackdown on drug lords, officials said Thursday.
April 2, 2009
Special Units
Sinaloa Cartel Assassin Arrested in Mexico
Police in Mexico have announced the arrest of a Sinaloa drug cartel enforcer who prosecutors say ordered the 2009 attack on a drug treatment center in Ciudad Juarez in which 18 people were killed.
February 5, 2012
Weapons
100 Fast and Furious Guns Found at Mexican Cartel Enforcer's Home
Associates of a Mexican drug cartel transported an arsenal of battle rifles from Phoenix to the home of the cartel's top enforcer in Ciudad Juarez under the Fast and Furious operation.
October 9, 2011
Special Units
Former N.M. Chief On Cartel Payroll
A one-time border police chief collected payments from the Juarez Cartel in exchange for running background checks and license plates and buying military gear for the Mexican cartel, he testified Wednesday.
September 25, 2013
Special Units
Arrested Juarez Kingpin Ordered 1,500 Killings
Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, a former police officer known as El Diego, was also wanted in the U.S. for allegedly killing three people connected to the U.S. consulate and orchestrating a car bomb ambush.
August 1, 2011
Special Units
Gang Members Threaten El Paso Officers
The Barrio Azteca gang could be plotting to kill El Paso law enforcement officers in retaliation for a recent crackdown on gang members, an alert issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned.
March 24, 2010
Special Units
A Field Guide to Mexican Drug Cartels
At least seven major Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) are primarily responsible for the $39 billion drug trade that floods narcotics across the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's a guide to the most active, and largest, cartels.
November 21, 2010
Gangs
Blood Brothers: Roots of a Cartel War
Like the evolution of the Italian Mafia in U.S. cities such as New York and Chicago, Mexican smugglers or "contrabandistas" evolved from crude thuggish beginnings to more criminally sophisticated organized crime groups.
December 28, 2010
Gangs
Mexican Drug Cartel Cowboys and DTOs
For more than a decade, Los Angeles street gangs have been killing about 550 to 600 people in L.A. County each year. What you probably don't know is that Mexican nationals, primarily illegal aliens, murder about an equal amount yearly. Many of these murders involve rivalries and vendettas that originated in states, cities, and ranchos in Mexico. They usually often involve Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTO).
July 4, 2007
Gangs
The Border War With Mexican Cartels
The word "war" is not just hyperbole; it correctly describes what is going on. It's estimated that the violence—kidnapping and murder—has driven 400,000 locals out of the Juarez area with an estimated 30,000 fleeing to El Paso and beyond. A U.S. border sheriff claimed that the cartels printed fliers ordering his residents to evacuate their homes in the border area or they would be murdered.
June 13, 2010
Gangs
Blood Brothers: Cartel Ties That Bind
Like the unwanted dandelions that sprout in lawns, cartel and gang partners continue to adapt and survive. The systematic corruption of our police, courts and political system is their goal.
January 3, 2011
Special Units
Feds Expand Training for Mexican Police
The expansion could include the establishment of training centers south of the border and the use of members of the National Guard and Webb County (Texas) Sheriff's Office as trainers of Mexican police.
August 17, 2011
Gangs
TV Review: Mixed View of FX's 'The Bridge'
As the show progresses, we see the challenges that El Paso Detective Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger) and Juárez Detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir) face in working together across cultural divides as well as in an environment of extensive police and government corruption.
August 25, 2013
Editor's Notes
Nogales PD: On the Front Lines of the Drug War
Nogales PD officers have heard the hiss of cartel death threats, and are ever watchful of the dangers presented to them when on patrol. Since Chief Jeffrey Kirkham took over in January, the department has made important strides.
July 22, 2010
Special Units
DEA-Led Operation Delivers More Than 2,000 Arrests
In addition to the 2,266 arrests, the operation resulted in the seizure of $154 million, 1,262 pounds of methamphetamine, 2.5 tons of cocaine, 1,410 pounds of heroin, 69 tons of marijuana, 501 weapons and 527 vehicles.
June 9, 2010
Special Units
Prison Gang Boss Arrested in Consulate Killings in Juarez
Mexican authorities have arrested a leader of a bi-national prison gang for the mid-March killings of three people associated with the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez.
March 29, 2010
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