Six accused drug traffickers allegedly utilizing boats and “narco subs” to site visitors cocaine had been hit with U.S. sanctions, the U.S. Division of the Treasury’s Workplace of Overseas Property Management stated Thursday. 4 Guyanese nationals — Paul Daby Jr., Randolph Duncan, Mark Cromwell, Himnauth Sawh — and two Colombians — Yeison Andres Sanchez Vallejo and…
A preferred Mexican band has been fined greater than $36,000 for performing songs glorifying drug cartels, authorities within the northern metropolis of Chihuahua introduced Wednesday. At a Los Tucanes de Tijuana efficiency on Saturday, practically a 3rd of their songs have been “narcocorridos” glamorizing drug traffickers, in keeping with metropolis official Pedro Oliva. The songs “glorified…
Three suspects within the kidnapping and homicide of Mexican musicians in Tamaulipas state alongside the Texas border have been arrested throughout a sequence of raids, officers stated on Monday. The 5 members of native band Fugitivo had been employed for a weekend efficiency within the crime-wracked northeastern metropolis of Reynosa, however arrived to discover a…
Washington — A bunch of Home and Senate Democrats is urging prime Trump administration officers to make use of the current designation of Latin American cartels and gangs as overseas terrorist organizations to take motion to curtail the movement of American-made weapons throughout the southern border. The 14 Democratic lawmakers stated in a letter to…
Colombian authorities mentioned Monday that they had captured greater than 200 members of the nation’s largest drug cartel, which is accused of murdering two dozen safety power members prior to now month. The Gulf Clan was born out of the right-wing paramilitary teams that fought leftist guerrillas within the Nineteen Nineties earlier than turning their…
A mayor from a western Mexico city was arrested as a part of a probe right into a suspected drug cartel coaching camp the place human bones and clothes had been discovered, a federal official stated. Teuchitlán Mayor José Murguía Santiago was arrested as a part of an investigation by authorities prosecutors into possible omissions…
Teams of armed males torched automobiles and blocked roads throughout Mexico on Wednesday, police and native media mentioned, as a turf warfare rages between the influential Jalisco New Era drug cartel and native felony teams. Gunmen seized cargo vans and set them on fireplace on a freeway connecting Mexico Metropolis to Guadalajara, earlier than police reported…
When Rubi Cruz acknowledged her husband’s belongings amongst private objects discovered at a suspected Mexican drug cartel coaching camp, she feared the worst — that he had develop into a sufferer of pressured recruitment. The invention of bones, footwear and clothes at a ranch within the western state of Jalisco has shone a highlight on…
DEA head discusses crackdown on drug cartels DEA head defends designating drug cartels as international terrorist organizations 03:42 Eight members of Colombia’s largest cartel have died in clashes with safety forces, the military stated Tuesday, the newest in a sequence of raids towards one among Latin America’s strongest felony teams. Days after the dying of…
Mexico’s legal professional basic on Wednesday reported irregularities in an investigation by state authorities into an alleged cartel killing website and coaching camp at a ranch within the western state of Jalisco the place individuals trying to find family discovered bones and a whole bunch of articles of clothes and different private results. The “ranch of…
