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Special Units
Mexican Drug Cartel's Narco Tank
The Mexican Army seized a pair of narco tanks used in the battle between the Los Zetas and Gulf cartels to control drug trafficking routes into Texas. Note: This video clip courtesy of Porvenirtv is narrated in Spanish.
June 8, 2011
Special Units
Mexican Drug Cartels Smuggling Oil into U.S.
U.S. refineries bought millions of dollars worth of oil stolen from Mexican government pipelines and smuggled across the border, the U.S. Justice Department told The Associated Press – illegal operations now led by Mexican drug cartels expanding their reach.
August 10, 2009
Special Units
Mexican Drug Cartels Using Facebook
There's the drug war on the streets and then there's the war online. YouTube videos, social networking sites, there's even a blog, Del Narco, which offers an anonymous, self-described uncensored view of drug cartel activities.
July 11, 2011
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
Mexican Drug Cartels: The Battle Against Evil
Beheadings, mass murders, and Al-Qaeda-style car bombs have become part of life in certain areas of Mexico. For America, terror is at our doorsteps and is creeping into our shadows. Without a new strategy to fight this war, drug cartels and every other evil organization around the globe will present a bleak future for the free world.
September 12, 2011
Special Units
Mexican Cartels Run U.S. Drug Trade, Report Says
Mexican cartels have taken over most of the drug trade in the United States, and are working with 20 gangs, including the Barrio Aztecas, according to a just-released report by the National Drug Intelligence Center titled, "National Drug Threat Assessment 2009."
January 19, 2009
Special Units
Mexican Drug Cartels Flush With Proceeds From Medical Marijuana States
Border seizures of the cash crop jumped 44% between 2005 and 2009, and cartels now derive as much as 26% of their profit from the drug.
February 20, 2011
Special Units
DEA Targets Sinaloa Drug Cartel's Cocaine Supplier
To cripple the drug trafficking and money laundering activities of one of Mexico's most active cartels, the federal government has designated its Columbian cocaine supplier as a drug-trafficking kingpin. The move gives law enforcement agencies greater powers to punish the network's U.S. associates and freeze assets.
February 24, 2011
Special Units
Sinaloa Cartel's N.H.-Europe Drug Pipeline Uncovered
A three-year investigation led by the FBI's Boston field office netted a cartel kingpin's cousin, 346 kilos of cocaine, and the discovery of a new trafficking route from Spain to New Hampshire.
September 3, 2012
Special Units
Mistrust Bedevils War on Mexican Drug Cartels
The U.S. has begun pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Mexico to help stanch the expansion of drug-fueled violence and corruption that has claimed more than 5,000 lives south of the border this year.
December 30, 2008
Special Units
Mexican Cartels Infiltrating U.S. Cities
Mexican drug cartels have infiltrated city councils and political campaigns in many small cities in Los Angeles County, according to POLICE contributor and retired Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Richard Valdemar. He appears in this Full Disclosure Network report.
September 14, 2010
Special Units
Sheriff: Mexican Cartels Control Parts of Arizona
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is calling for 3,000 federal troops to help with the war on Mexican cartels in Arizona. "We are outgunned, we are out manned and we don't have the resources here locally to fight this," Babeu says. Pinal Deputy Louis Puroll was shot by drug traffickers in late April.
June 17, 2010
Special Units
L.A. Training Center Offers Counter-Drug Symposium
The Los Angeles High Intensity Drug Training Area (HIDTA) training center will offer a two-day symposium for law enforcement officers covering threats such as Mexican drug cartels, street gangs, and border security.
May 24, 2012
Special Units
DEA Arrests 175 Mexican Drug Trafficking Suspects
In what prosecutors said was a significant step in fighting the drug wars raging on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Justice Department said Wednesday that 175 people believed to be connected with one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels were arrested this week in a dozen states.
September 17, 2008
Special Units
Cartels Exploit Children, Say Gang Experts
Mexican drug cartels are using children as young as 11 in their smuggling operations in Texas, Reuters is reporting. Six of the cartels, including the violent Zetas, are paying children $50 to move a vehicle from one area to another area, as well as using them as lookouts or for other tasks.
October 17, 2011
Special Units
DEA: Cartel Probe Led To 3,780 Arrests
The Drug Enforcement Administration says a two-year series of investigations targeting the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels and violent street gangs has resulted in 3,780 arrests and the seizure of some 375,000 pounds of drugs.
December 6, 2012
Special Units
Chicago Feds Indict Mexican Drug Cartel Leaders
Calling it the most significant narcotics conspiracy case of its kind ever in Chicago, authorities today announced indictments against leaders of warring Mexican drug cartels blamed for increasing violence south of the border and for bringing up to four tons of cocaine to the city each month for national distribution.
August 19, 2009
Special Units
Probe of Mexican Drug Cartel Leads to Nearly 1,200 Arrests in U.S.
In a series of recent raids throughout the United States, federal authorities have arrested nearly 1,200 people who they say are connected to one of Mexico's most aggressively expanding and deadly drug trafficking cartels, known as La Familia Michoacana, law enforcement officials told The Times' Washington bureau.
October 21, 2009
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