Mexican authorities are investigating a Sinaloa-based journalist’s death who was allegedly thrown from an overpass. The case marks the fifth media-related homicide of 2019 and the seventh since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) took office in December 2018.
Five people were gunned down by suspected cartel gunmen in the northern Mexican border state of Sonora near Arizona Sunday, continuing a trend of violent activity in the region.
Mexican authorities are investigating a Sinaloa-based journalist’s death who was allegedly thrown from an overpass. The case marks the fifth media-related homicide of 2019 and the seventh since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) took office in December 2018.
Sicarios en México han estado utilizando lanzagranadas, dispositivos incendiarios metralletas y otras armas de alto poder en los últimos enfrentamientos de una feroz guerra por el control de territorios clave de narcotráfico que se encuentran inmediatamente al sur de la frontera de Texas. A pesar de que la violencia está fuera de control, los residentes afirman que militares de una base cercana del Ejército Mexicano ignoraron en gran medida las batallas con armas.
Cartel gunmen in Mexico used grenade launchers, improvised explosive devices, and incendiary devices in the latest clashes of a fierce war for control of key drug smuggling territories immediately south of the Texas Border. Despite the out of control violence, residents claim that soldiers from a nearby Mexican Army base largely ignored the gun battles.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Un grupo de hombres armados del cartel dispararon contra un empresario local, su hijo y su hija en esta ciudad en lo que las autoridades creen es una operación fallida de extorsión. Se cree que la familia no está vinculada a ninguno de los cárteles de droga que operan en la ciudad.
A group of cartel gunmen shot a local businessman, his son, and his daughter in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, in what authorities believe is a failed extortion operation. The family is not believed to be tied to either one of the drug cartels operating in the city.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol officials reportedly closed down inland immigration checkpoints to move more resources to the border. The move comes as the El Paso Sector faces a massive number of illegal large-group border crossings by Central American migrant families. The closures amplify the current crisis along the southwest border.
A group of migrants packed into a pickup truck ran away from authorities in a failed human smuggling attempt. The incident occurred in Brooks County, Texas, approximately 70 miles north of the border with Mexico. Sheriff’s office deputies captured the chase and bail-out on a police dash cam video.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a wheelchair-bound double amputee migrant this week after cartel smugglers abandoned him on an island in the Rio Grande River. Agents also apprehended two other special needs migrants in the two preceding days.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported violent criminal alien from Mexico with multiple arrests for kidnapping and attempted sexual assault near Lukeville, Arizona on Wednesday.
Mexican authorities are probing the discovery of a headless body near Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, just south of Roma, Texas. The body is the latest in an extensive series of gory crime scenes now commonplace in the region.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Un equipo de sicarios atacó a una fiscal estatal que estaba liderando un caso de secuestro contra el líder del Cartel del Golfo. Los sicarios asesinaron a la fiscal frente a sus hijos cuando ella se estaba preparando para llevarlos a la escuela. El cartel del Golfo presuntamente también amenazó al gobernador de Tamaulipas y al Procurador General del estado.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – A team of gunmen shot a state prosecutor handling a kidnapping case against the leader of the Gulf Cartel. The attorney was murdered in front of her children as she was preparing them for school. The cartel also allegedly threatened the governor and attorney general of Tamaulipas.
Three men who were reported missing last week in the northern border state of Sonora were declared murdered after their bodies were found riddled with gunfire in San Carlos.
A National Guard aircrew assisted U.S. Border Patrol agents in apprehending a group of illegal aliens in the southern Arizona desert. Agents discovered one was carrying a small load of methamphetamine.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Ante el temor de un posible intento de rescate, las autoridades mexicanas han trasladado al principal líder de una facción del Cartel del Golfo desde esta ciudad a una prisión federal en el estado mexicano de Durango.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Fearing a possible breakout, authorities moved a top faction leader for the Gulf Cartel from this city to a federal prison in the Mexican state of Durango.
Uno de los cárteles de droga más violentos de México ha anunciado su decisión de tomar una de las ciudades más acaudaladas de México, argumentando que el alcalde está con ellos y advirtiendo a otros cárteles que se salgan o se atengan a las consecuencias. A diferencia de otras organizaciones criminales, este cartel está actualmente liderado por el terrorista detrás de un ataque con granadas a un Consulado de Estados Unidos. El narcoterrorista esta comenzando una guerra contra un cartel rival liderado por un capo que es buscado en Estados Unidos por ordenar ejecuciones en Dallas.
One of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels announced its intent to take over wealthy San Pedro, claiming the mayor is an ally. Rival groups were warned to fall in line or face violence. Unlike other criminal organizations, this cartel is currently led by the terrorist behind a grenade attack on a U.S. Consulate office. The cartel is waging war against a rival group led by a man wanted in the U.S. for ordering an assassination in Dallas.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued two groups of migrant families from the Rio Grande River as they attempted to illegally cross from Mexico. The groups included three young children who were at risk of drowning.
Border Patrol officials in the Tucson Sector said human smugglers are using large Central American migrant groups to tie up border security resources and disrupt operations.
An illegal immigrant from Honduras killed a tracking dog as he tried to evade law enforcement 180 miles from the Texas-Mexico border, say police. Authorities were tracking the man after he fled a traffic stop involving a human smuggling attempt.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized approximately 223 pounds of methamphetamine and two pounds of heroin worth $648,288 over the weekend during four vehicle inspections in California and Arizona. The alleged seizures resulted in the arrests of three U.S. citizens and two Mexican nationals.
A Mexican national arrested last week at a west Phoenix motel for possession of 15,000 fentanyl pills was identified as a previously deported criminal alien suspected of leading a local fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine ring, say police.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended two large groups of Central American migrants after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. Agents apprehended the two groups totaling more than 400 during a five-minute period early Tuesday.
Border Patrol agent in Arizona, Texas, and California apprehended multiple dangerous criminal aliens after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Al menos cinco hombres fueron asesinados en los últimos días en esta ciudad fronteriza mientras dos facciones rivales del Cartel del Golfo luchan por el control de los lucrativos territorios de trasiego de la droga y el contrabando de personas.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – At least five men were killed locally in recent days as rival factions of the Gulf Cartel fight for control of lucrative drug and human smuggling territories.
Thieves in Tijuana are reportedly stealing razor wire from a U.S. border wall to secure nearby homes.
Criminal aliens are not shielded from a federal mandatory-detention law when federal agents do not arrest them immediately upon release from state prisons, according to a 5-4 Supreme Court decision on Wednesday, rejecting arguments from the ACLU and left-wing politicians.
