Drug cartels

The Mexican army said he was the leader of cartel gunmen known as “The Troops of Hell.” They are an extremely violent and heavily-armed gang of hitmen

A first group of assassins hired to kill them earlier in January abandoned the job because there was too much security at the resort

Joaquin Guzman was sentenced to life behind bars for a massive drug conspiracy that spread murder and mayhem for more than two decades

The men used drug money to purchase legally-available weapons in Oregon and Nevada and ammunition from several states, authorities said.

Local media reported a handwritten message found at the scene threatened authorities and was signed by “the four letters,” commonly a reference to the Jalisco Cartel

A once-standout U.S. narcotics agent who used his badge to build a lavish lifestyle of luxury cars and Tiffany jewelry has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for conspiring to launder money with a Colombian cartel

The shooting of two suspected drug dealers at a resort on Mexico’s Caribbean coast is part of a fight among about a dozen gangs to carve up the lucrative drug market.

A day relaxing at a beach resort in Cancun, Mexico, turned into “complete chaos” for a group of tourists on Thursday when a shootout between a pair of rival gangs left two suspected drug dealers dead.

Two suspected drug dealers were killed Thursday in Mexico’s Caribbean coast after gunmen from competing gangs had a shootout near upscale hotels popular with foreign tourists, according to officials.

The Biden administration imposed sanctions Wednesday on eight members of the notorious Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel.

The Biden administration imposed sanctions on Zulma Maria Musso Torres, aka ‘La Patrona,’ the woman in charge of a drug trafficking empire based in Colombia.