A group of tourists celebrating a birthday on a party boat in Mexico came face to face with a crew of heavily armed pirates who robbed them at gunpoint. A passenger captured the ordeal on a cell phone video as gunmen can be heard and partially seen waving guns at the tourists as they demand wallets and purses.
A Florida truck driver bit the testicles of a camel at a Louisiana truck stop after the animal sat on her. The driver and her husband entered the camel’s pen after their dog went inside.
A group of tourists celebrating a birthday on a party boat in Mexico came face to face with a crew of heavily armed pirates who robbed them at gunpoint. A passenger captured the ordeal on a cell phone video as gunmen can be heard and partially seen waving guns at the tourists as they demand wallets and purses.
A Brooks County Sheriff’s Office deputy faced the gruesome task of recovering the half-eaten remains of a migrant who died on a Texas ranch about 80 miles from the Mexican border. The migrant is the 36th to have lost his life attempting to circumvent the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint on U.S. Highway 281.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of 53 migrants locked in the back of a tractor-trailer after it entered an immigration checkpoint near the Texas border. Officials said the temperature inside the locked trailer exceeded 100 degrees.
Officials positively identified the victim of a shocking execution-style murder of a patient inside a central Mexico hospital as a high-ranking member of a Mexican drug cartel. The killing is believed to be part of an ongoing turf war between rival criminal gangs.
A group of cartel gunmen stormed a restaurant bar in western Mexico and fired into a group of patrons killing four and injuring several others. The shooting took place in the city of Uruapan, where initial information points to gunmen from Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion being behind the attack.
Un grupo de sicarios irrumpió en el bar de un restaurante y disparó contra un grupo de comensales matando a cuatro e hiriendo a otros. El tiroteo tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Uruapan, donde la información inicial apunta a que sicarios del Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) estaban detrás del ataque.
Authorities in the western Mexican state of Jalisco continue to discover dozens of trash bags filled with dismembered human remains. The discoveries point to an ongoing extermination tactic by cartel members fighting for control of the region. Officials found the remains in wells, shallow pits, and grassy areas as authorities continue to put the pieces back together and identify the victims.
Un grupo de sicarios tendió una emboscada y mató a cinco custodios de una prisión en el estado de Guanajuato, mientras trasladaban prisioneros. Los sobrevivientes afirmaron que el ataque fue llevado a cabo por un convoy de sicarios en tres camionetas.
A group of gunmen ambushed and killed five prison guards in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato as they were transferring prisoners. The survivors claimed the attack was carried out by a convoy of gunmen in three SUVs.
The Trump administration is putting up about a mile of border wall per day with a goal of reaching 450 miles by the end of next year.
A group of 61 retired Massachusetts judges filed an amicus brief in support of a peer charged with obstruction of justice and perjury. The charges against the judge stem from an incident where she allegedly allowed a criminal alien to avoid arrest while in court.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León – Tres sicarios de Los Zetas murieron durante un enfrentamiento con agentes policiales de Nuevo Leon. En el momento del tiroteo, los sicarios tenían el cuerpo de un hombre no identificado en la cajuela del vehículo. No está claro si el hombre acababa de ser secuestrado o si los sicarios lo habían matado previamente e iban a arrojar el cuerpo.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – Three gunmen from Los Zetas died during a clash with state police Wednesday. At the time of the shootout, the gunmen kept the body of an unidentified man in the trunk of a vehicle. It remains unclear when the man died.
Cartel gunmen in western Mexico stormed a hospital to execute a man who survived an earlier shooting.
Increased immigration and security efforts by the Mexican government resulted in a decrease in illegal crossings in the United States, allowing El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents to return to capturing smugglers and previously deported criminal aliens.
Deputies with the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office recovered the decaying remains of a migrant who attempted to circumvent the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint earlier this month. Deputies recovered 35 bodies or skeletal remains so far this year.
Federal authorities confirmed an attack on a regional head of Mexico’s National Intelligence Center (CNI). The top official sustained gunshot injuries while one of his staff died in the shootout.
Attorneys for a Mexican migrant who assaulted a Laredo Sector Border Patrol agent told the court he believed the agent was a cow at the time. He assaulted the agent with a flashlight.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – Una amenaza de bomba dentro del Palacio Municipal en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros provocó un estado de alerta máxima cuando los empleados salieron apresurados del edificio, mientras militares y policías entraron en el área en busca de explosivos. El caso es el tercer incidente de este tipo en el ayuntamiento bajo la administración actual que comenzó en noviembre.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – A bomb threat targeting city hall led to a state of high-alert as employees rushed out of the building while military and police combed the area for explosives. This marks the third incident of its kind at the municipal building since November 2018.
HOUSTON, Texas — Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke is “done in Texas,” Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said in response to the Democratic presidential candidate’s promise to confiscate AR-15s.
An extortion gang, which included two municipal police officers, was busted in central Mexico after authorities received anonymous complaints from businesses. Merchants were threatened with violence and property damage if they did not make cash payments to the group.
A federal court in Indianapolis sentenced the twice-deported Guatemalan man who killed NFL linebacker Edwin Jackson to 42-months in prison for illegal re-entry after removal. The Guatemalan also received 16 years in state prison for his conviction related to the fatal drunk driving crash.
U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued and apprehended more than 3,000 migrants during Fiscal Year 2019 who were abused in the process of human smuggling operations in the U.S. Many migrants are extorted, raped, beaten, or placed in life-threatening situations during the human smuggling process.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León – Sicarios del sangriento Cartel de Los Zetas le cortaron la cara han cortado la cara a un hombre quien su único error fue involucrarse románticamente con un pariente de un miembro de la organización criminal. Después de ser amenazada, la víctima intentó huir de la ciudad fronteriza de Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, pero no pudo escapar de la organización criminal quienes lo encontraron en Nuevo Leon.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – Gunmen with Los Zetas cut the face off a man who was romantically involved with a relative of a cartel member. After being threatened, the victim tried to flee the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, but was not able to outrun the criminal organization.
HOUSTON, Texas — Deportation officers arrested a thrice-removed Mexican national wanted in connection to a homicide case in California.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Un equipo de sicarios tendio una emboscada a un escuadrón de policías estatales fronterizos a pocos metros de la frontera con Texas. Los sicarios lograron dispararle a un oficial de policía en la cabeza, mientras el policía no murió de forma instantánea, si falleció poco después en un hospital local.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Cartel gunmen ambushed a squad of border state police officers yards away from Texas on Sunday. The gunmen managed to fatally shoot one officer in the head.
