by Tyler | Dec 17, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Clips, Politics, Trending
RIO BRAVO, Texas — Chaos erupted in a small Texas border town as Los Zetas smugglers launched a complex smuggling operation. Border Patrol agents responded to an illegal crossing that quickly tied up agency resources in the area, enabling smugglers to move...
by Tyler | Dec 16, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Crime, immigration, Trending
A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died in Border Patrol custody within hours of illegally crossing the border from Mexico with a group of 163 migrants. The group crossed in a remote area of the New Mexico border with Mexico.
by Tyler | Dec 16, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Cartel Violence, CJNG, Crime, Trending
An ongoing investigation into a drug cartel stash house in the Mexican state of Jalisco has yielded the discovery of 50 bodies in one property. Since November, authorities in Jalisco have found a total of 81 bodies in two ranches and arrested 15 gunmen in connection...
by Tyler | Dec 12, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Politics, Trending
Two U.S. Senators filed a bill that would target Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations through financial, criminal, and immigration sanctions. The sanctions are similar to the ones they would face if they were designated as foreign terrorist...
by Tyler | Dec 9, 2019 | Air and Marine Operations, AMO, Border / Cartel Chronicles, Crime, Drug Smuggling, National Air Security Operations Center, P-3 Orion, Trending, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
An Air and Marine Operations (AMO) aircrew intercepted two drug-smuggling boats resulting in the seizure of nearly $82 million in cocaine. One incident happened in the eastern Pacific Ocean while the second took place in the western Caribbean Sea.
by Tyler | Dec 7, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Trending
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – Local investigators re-arrested a top Gulf Cartel leader in charge of regional fuel theft operations, narcotics sales, and extortion rackets despite already being under house arrest.
