The designation of six Mexican criminal groups as terrorist organizations, which takes effect on February 20, raises questions about their size, activities, and territorial reach
Co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel is set to appear before Brian Cogan in a Brooklyn court, opening a new chapter in the judicial offensive against Mexican cartels
Convicted last year of collaborating for two decades with the Sinaloa Cartel, he learned his fate in the same court and before the same judge who convicted El Chapo. In a statement, he insisted on presenting himself as a victim
Judge Brian Cogan has moved Ismael Zambada’s next hearing up to October 17, one day after he sentences the former drug czar, who was convicted of accepting bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel
The Mexican drug trafficker is scheduled to attend the same court where El Chapo was tried and convicted. U.S. Authorities have called him ‘a danger to the community’ and are calling for heightened security measures to stop him from escaping
The Sinaloa Cartel leader has taken control of narrative over his arrest after claiming that he was going to meet with Governor Rubén Rocha and linking his detention to the murder of Héctor Cuén, an influential local politician
Lawyers for the former Mexican official, imprisoned in the U.S. for drug trafficking and organized crime, say they have new evidence that exonerates their client
The former secretary of Public Security profited from lucrative, sole source contracts for location tracking and phone tapping equipment
José Wilfredo Ayala, second-in-command of the notorious MS-13 criminal organization and one the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, faces multiple charges in New York
American authorities are tightening the net around the clans of aging drug lords like Joaquín Guzmán, Rubén Oseguera and Rafael Caro Quintero
The trial of former president Felipe Calderón’s secretary of public security demolishes the myth of the super-policeman who took on the cartels and reveals him to be the partner of the criminals he promised to fight
The New York jury reached a unanimous verdict on the five crimes charged against the former secretary of public security of Mexico during the government of Felipe Calderón
Twelve New York citizens must reach a unanimous verdict on each of the five charges against the former Secretary of Public Safety
Jesús ‘Rey’ Zambada testified to handing over millions of dollars to the former Mexico security chief, who has elected not take the stand during his New York trial
The judicial process against the former head of Mexican public security has seen several high-ranking narcos reveal the horrors and excesses of the war on drugs
Prosecutors call a former Mexican cop and a Sinaloa Cartel frontman to testify about how million-dollar bribes greased the wheels of organized crime
The Mexican government has filed a suit in Florida accusing the former security official of diverting over $750 million in public funds, while a NY court is trying him for allegedly taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel
Cartel leaders viewed García Luna as ‘the best investment they had,’ said Villarreal Barragan, who pleaded guilty himself to drug trafficking
The secretary of public security during the presidency of the rightist leader was arrested in Dallas in 2019, charged with taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel
Washington has been asked to clarify the whereabouts of Édgar Valdez Villarreal after the convicted drug-trafficker vanished from Federal Bureau of Prisons databases