The arrests, part of President Trump’s mass deportation offensive, collared a previously deported Mexican cartel hitman.

Mexican cartels have ramped up their violence despite Trump's increased presence at the southern border, as they order their ...

"El Ricky" was arrested this week. He's accused of leading several operations against law enforcement, including an attack on ...

The mystery mission has sparked speculation from officials, with the aircraft hovering over the Mexican region of Sinaloa – a ...

The CARTEL Act would require more transparent reporting from U.S. Customs and Border Protection about cartels and gangs ...

José Alfredo Cárdenas Martínez faces the charge of coordinating “an international conspiracy to possess with the intention of distributing methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl” ...

One of the oldest Mexican drug cartels, the Gulf cartel is based in eastern Mexico along the Gulf Coast states. In the 1980s, the cartel brokered a deal with Colombia's powerful Cali Cartel by ...

Cárdenas Guillén made his criminal career in the Gulf drugs cartel in the 1990s, reportedly not shying away from having his allies killed to rise to the top, a practice which earned him the nickname ...

The Gulf Cartel was in the midst of a violent turf war when Cárdenas Guillén took over as its leader in 1999. For his protection, Cárdenas Guillén hired a bodyguard (retired Army lieutenant ...

12 September:Gulf Cartel leader Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, also known as El Cos, is arrested. American Édgar Valdez was born in Texas. He fled the country on charges of distributing drugs.

Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21) introduced the Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act, a landmark piece of legislation aimed at ...