Category Archives: Mexican Cartel

A local drug kingpin who pleaded guilty in 2008 to major federal drug conspiracy and trafficking charges was sentenced Friday to 19 years in prison. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of … Continue reading →

Undercover agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, working with their Mexican counterparts, helped transfer millions of dollars in drug cash and even escorted a shipment of cocaine via Dallas to Spain. The covert activities were undertaken as part of … Continue reading →

  Press stories, as well as a television documentary, over the past two months have detailed the growing cooperation between South American drug traffickers and Middle Eastern terrorists, proving that the United States continues to ignore the mounting terrorist threat … Continue reading →

Citizens of Panama have mixed feelings on the return of Manuel Noriega, a dictator deposed and imprisoned by the United States. The plane carrying Panama’s former dictator Manuel Noriega is shown as he is extradited to Panama, at Orly airport … Continue reading →

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)is attacking Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. once again, this time for a DEA operation that allowed money to flow to the Mexican drug cartels. In a press release issued Monday, Issa announced that he was investigating … Continue reading →

Anti-narcotics agents working for the US government have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds to see how the system works and use the information against Mexican drug cartels, The New York Times reported Sunday. Citing unnamed current and former federal law … Continue reading →

The death of Mexico’s interior minister in a helicopter crash has opened the way for the latest in a long history of narco-conspiracy theories in the country. InSight Crime counts down its top 10 narco-conspiracy theories from the country. 10. … Continue reading →

An in-depth look at the Mexican cartels that have killed thousands and threaten the government itself Rifles, guns, hand grenades, uniforms of the Mexican navy and the U.S. Army, cartridges and cocaine were seized in an operation against the Zetas … Continue reading →

DENVER – The Drug Enforcement Agency used wire taps, confidential informants, undercover operatives and got a judge’s permission to break into a drug house so agents could install secret cameras to investigate the biggest drug case in Colorado history, 9Wants … Continue reading →

TUCSON, AZ—Victor A. Flores, 52, of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced Oct. 3, 2011, to 135 months in prison by visiting U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson for conspiring with other persons to possess with intent to distribute in excess … Continue reading →