Family threatened by cartel seeks Supreme Court review to stop deportation
WASHINGTON, DC — A Mexican family facing deportation is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their case, arguing that immigration authorities failed to properly evaluate credible threats to their lives…
Cartel Apologizes For Kidnapping And Killing Americans, Turns Over Its Own Members For ‘Lack Of Discipline’: REPORT
Cartel Apologizes For Kidnapping And Killing Americans, Turns Over Its Own Members For ‘Lack Of Discipline’: REPORT Jennie Taer on March 9, 2023 A letter from a group claiming to be a…
Two Americans Who Were Caught In Cartel Crossfire, Kidnapped Make It Back To The US: REPORT
Two Americans Who Were Caught In Cartel Crossfire, Kidnapped Make It Back To The US: REPORT Lorenzo Prieto on March 7, 2023 Two of the four American citizens who got kidnapped in…
ALFREDO ORTIZ: Time For SCOTUS To Take Down The College Cartel
This week, Job Creators Network Foundation argued its case against the Biden administration’s unlawful student loan bailout process before the Supreme Court. We explained how neither Congress nor the American people give…
Ex-Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna Convicted of Engaging in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Taking Millions in Cash Bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel
Genaro Garcia Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of all five counts of a superseding indictment…
Ex-Mexican Security Official Convicted For Taking Millions In Bribes From Sinaloa Cartel, Helping Import Drugs Into US
Ex-Mexican Security Official Convicted For Taking Millions In Bribes From Sinaloa Cartel, Helping Import Drugs Into US Trevor Schakohl on February 21, 2023 A Brooklyn federal jury found former Mexican Public Security…
Two Leaders Of Violent Drug Cartel Sentenced To Life And 50 Years In Prison
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JULIO MARQUEZ ALEJANDRO, a/k/a “Chino,” was sentenced to life in prison, and LUIS BLONDET was sentenced…
Colombian cartel leader Otoniel pleads guilty to U.S. drugs charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The leader of a prominent Colombian criminal group pleaded guilty on Wednesday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, court records showed. Dairo Antonio Usuga David, better known as Otoniel,…
German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s cartel office regulator said on Monday it had initiated proceedings against payment company PayPal Europe over the possibility that it hindered competition. The subject of the proceedings was…
Accused Colombian cartel leader Otoniel to change plea in U.S. drug case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The accused leader of a prominent Colombian criminal group plans to change his plea in a U.S. drug trafficking case after pleading not guilty last May, records in…
Florida Man with Ties to Mexican Drug Cartel Sentenced to Prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Eight Kilos of Methamphetamine
ALBANY, Ga. – A Haines City, Florida, resident with a lengthy criminal history and connections to a Mexican drug cartel was sentenced to prison for possession with intent to distribute approximately eight…
H-2 Cartel Lieutenant Extradited from Mexico to Face Narcotics Trafficking and Firearms Charges
Carlos Silva Arellano, also known as “Bolas,” was arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on an indictment charging him with participating in a…
Debt collector and drug distributor for cartel connected, violent, drug distribution ring, sentenced to 10 years in prison
Seattle – A 31-year-old Renton, Washington man was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle to ten years in prison for his role in a violent, cartel connected drug distribution…
Drug Cartel Operative Claims Rainbow Fentanyl Was Not Created To ‘Make Kids Addicts’
Drug Cartel Operative Claims Rainbow Fentanyl Was Not Created To ‘Make Kids Addicts’ Jennie Taer on November 18, 2022 A Mexican drug cartel is not making rainbow fentanyl to addict kids, an…
In a Landmark Ruling, Mexican Court Upholds U.S. Forfeiture Order Authorizing Seizure of Drug Cartel Leader’s Real Estate
For the first time, a Mexican court has invoked its new civil forfeiture law to authorize the forfeiture of real property located in and around Guadalajara, Mexico pursuant to a request for…
Two High-Ranking Los Zetas Cartel Members Latest Sentenced to Federal Prison for Drug Trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas
PLANO, Texas– Two Los Zetas Cartel leaders has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Jose Maria Guizar-Valencia,…
Two drug runners for drug trafficking organization connected to CJNG cartel sentenced to prison
Seattle – Two men who served as drug runners for a Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) cartel connected drug trafficking organization were sentenced to prison today following an extensive wiretap investigation, announced…
Juárez Cartel leader sentenced to prison for drug trafficking
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Luis Carlos Vásquez-Barragán, 51, of Nicolás Bravo, Chihuahua, Mexico, was sentenced to prison for possession…
Eleven people arrested in Washington and California in connection with cartel connected drug trafficking schemes
Seattle – Three significant drug trafficking groups responsible for trafficking more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine and hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills are facing federal charges tonight, announced U.S. Attorney Nick…
Whistleblowers dodged $10 billion in EU cartel fines in past 16 years
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Companies that alerted European authorities to cartels in the last 16 years dodged 10 billion euros ($9.97 billion) in potential fines, EU antitrust regulators said…
Traffickers sentenced for smuggling meth in fire extinguishers for cartel
LAREDO, Texas – Two Texas men have been sent to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 34.5 kilograms of liquid meth associated with the…
Top Money Launderer for the Sinaloa Cartel Sentenced to More than 15 Years in Prison
Assistant U. S. Attorney Daniel E. Zipp (619) 546-8463 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – October 7, 2022 SAN DIEGO – Juan Manuel Alvarez-Inzunza, a high-level money launderer for the Sinaloa Cartel, was sentenced…
U.S. judge sentences Mexican cartel boss to life in prison
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican crime lord Jorge Costilla Sanchez was sentenced to life in prison in a U.S. federal court on Thursday for his involvement in trafficking marijuana and cocaine to…
Mexico Blames US For Rampant Cartel Gun Smuggling
Mexico Blames US For Rampant Cartel Gun Smuggling Jennie Taer on September 9, 2022 The Mexican government blamed the U.S. Wednesday for the cartel’s cross-border gun trafficking operations. “You have no reason…
Mexico On The Verge Of Becoming A Police State After Bloody Weekend Of Drug Cartel Violence
Mexico On The Verge Of Becoming A Police State After Bloody Weekend Of Drug Cartel Violence Jennie Taer on August 15, 2022 Mexico is on the verge of becoming a police state…
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