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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 5, 2011

Mexico Captures Zetas Founder Wanted In ICE Agent's Killing

Mexican authorities have captured Jesus Regon Aguilar, one of the three founding members of the Los Zetas drug cartel and a suspect in the killing of a U.S. immigration enforcement agent earlier this year. Jesus Rejon Aguilar, who goes by the alias "El Mamito" (Pretty Boy), was taken into custody on Sunday near Mexico City without a shot being fired.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 1, 2011

Guns That ATF Let Walk Into Mexico Linked to Phoenix Crimes

Weapons linked to a questionable government strategy are turning up in crimes in Phoenix-area neighborhoods, according to a report by local TV news channel ABC15.

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Inside the Badge by Richard ValdemarJune 28, 2011

A Mexican Cartel's Infiltration of American Law Enforcement

No government or human culture is any more or less susceptible to the corrupting effect of vice, drugs, power, fear or money. Criminal gangs systematically utilize these human weaknesses to sow the seeds of our destruction. What they can't do with guns and terror, they seek to do with seduction.

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Inside the Badge by Richard ValdemarJune 20, 2011

Public Corruption at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The greatest cost and symptom of our demise as a nation is the lasting affect these criminal gangs have on our system of law and justice. The corruption these gangs bring to our public institutions is the greatest threat to America.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 9, 2011

Video: Mexican Army Seizes Narco Tanks Near Texas Border

A drug cartel created armored vehicles by converting trucks that can withstand fire from .50-caliber machine guns and grenades. The vehicles are covered with one-inch thick steel plating, air-conditioned and are sized to hold 20 armed combatants.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 26, 2011

Arizona Deputy Arrested, Linked to Mexican Cartel

Deputy Alfredo Navarrette, 37, served in a special unit designed to target human smugglers moving through Maricopa County. Sheriff's detention officers Sylvia Najera, 25, and Marcella Hernandez, 28, were also arrested. Sheriff Joe Arpaio called his deputies' alleged actions "despicable."

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 23, 2011

Mexico Captures Gulf Cartel Leader at Birthday Party

Mexican authorities announced the capture Gilberto Barragan Balderas, one of the leaders of one of Mexico's most active drug trafficking organizations, the Gulf Cartel.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 19, 2011

Cartel Operators Used Indian Reservation As Smuggling Pass-Through

Acting in coordination with a southwestern Arizona Native American tribe, the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested 27 of 46 suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel who smuggled illegals and drugs through reservation land.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 15, 2011

16 Mexican Officers Accused of Aiding Cartels

Sixteen Mexican police officers have been arrested for allegedly protecting drug-cartel gangsters suspects in the grisly slaying of more than 120 people whose bodies were found in mass graves near Tamaulipas in northern Mexico.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 11, 2011

Mexican Cartels Escalating Presence In New York

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement went from spending 13,472 hours in 2009 to more than 30,000 hours last year. The feds are also seizing record amounts of firearms and cash. In 2009, the feds seized more than $35 million and 57 firearms.

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