Drug cartels News

Drug cartels News From AOL News

Officers Arrested Over Mexico Mass Graves; Death Toll Climbs to 145

Federal authorities have pulled 23 more corpses from a mass grave near the town of San Fernando in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bringing the death toll to 145 in a mass killing that has managed to shock even the violence-hardened residents of northeastern Mexico. Sixteen police officers were arrested there Thursday...

Mexican Authorities Find Six More Bodies in Border Pits

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican investigators found a clandestine grave with six bodies in Tamaulipas state, bringing to 122 the number of bodies found in pits in a region near the U.S. border that is wracked by battling drug cartels, authorities said Wednesday. Tamaulipas state Interior Secretary Morelos Canseco said...

Gunmen Kill 5 at Mexican Border Bar

MEXICO CITY - Gunmen shot up a bar and then threw in fire bombs, killing three men and two women in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, an official said Saturday. The deaths came a day after a shooting attack on another bar in the city caused 10 deaths. A motive had not been determined and it was unclear if the...

Mexican Cartels: Are They 'Foreign Terrorist Organizations'? [VIDEO]

Marisol Valles Garcia: 5 Facts on the Mexican Police Chief Who Got Fired

Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year-old woman who made headlines after becoming the police chief of a Mexican border town beset by drug cartel violence, has been fired from her position after reportedly fleeing for the United States. Officials in Praxedis G. Guerrero said Valles Garcia did not report to work on Monday...

Drug cartels News From AOL

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Mexico: Zetas Drug Cartel Ordered Killing Of 49

The army charged Monday that the top leaders of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel ordered underlings to leave 49 mutilated bodies in a northern Mexico town square, then had banners hung around the country denying responsibility in an effort to have their enemies blamed for the massacre.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Drug cartels News From the Web

05/25/12 Sonora police chief's killing stirs alarm on both... Source: NBC - KPNX TV 12 - Phoenix AZ The killing of the police chief in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, last weekend has alarmed officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border and raised fears that the vicious drug-cartel violence that has plagued other regions may be spreading to an area that, for the most part, has been spared the bloodshed.
05/24/12 Extradited drug cartel suspect pleads not guilty Source: The Union Democrat - Sonora CA A U.S.-born man accused of being a drug cartel lieutenant pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal racketeering and drug charges, one day after he was extradited from Mexico.
05/24/12 Vandals Strike Smithson Valley High School Source: FOX - KABB 29 - San Antonio TX Mexican officials say suspected cartel gunmen have launched a complex attack involving heavy weapons and a car bomb on a police dormitory less than 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) from the U.S. border.
05/24/12 Mexico: Drug Cartel Boss Extradited To US Source: International Business Times (Australia) After his election in 2006, Mexico President Felipe Calderon began a military offensive against drug trafficking, and the Beltran Leyva cartel is perhaps Calderon's greatest victory in this war.
05/23/12 Mexico extradites drug boss involved in corruption... Source: Asia One Mexico extradited to the United States an alleged drug kingpin who has testified that high-ranking military officers worked with drug cartels, Mexican officials said Wednesday.