US Customs & Border Patrol named Sinaloa Cartel’s Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela, alias “El Gigio”, as a target in their new push to start naming the cartel bosses who control regions south of the border which aims “to increase public and law enforcement pressure on them.”

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A major Mexican drug trafficker, the Cartel Arellano Felix figure “El Apache”, was shot by hitmen outside a Chili’s in the US city of Chula Vista, California.

Story by HEARST & Obscuro

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Killings of police are on the rise in Chiapas state, one of the Mexico's emerging violence hotspots due to disputes between crime groups. So far in 2024, 9 police have been killed making it the 2nd most fatal state in Mexico for police.

by El Huaso

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El Ruso, a direct subordinate of Mayo Zambada and the founder of Sinaloa Cartel group “los Rusos”, was named on the FBI’s wanted fugitive list.

Story by HEARST

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Last weekend, criminals dropped explosives from commercial drones above communities in Petatlán, Guerrero. The damage to homes and farmland forced many civilians in the community to flee the region. 📸

by El Huaso photos via Meganoticias IXT Proceso

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One month ago, a U-Haul truck with at least ten Sinaloa Cartel hitmen barreled into a gated residential subdivision of Tijuana, seeking 'El Toro'.

This is the story of that cartel figure  - a man named Jaime Daniel Gutiérrez García.

by HEARST & Sol

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Jason Antonio Yang López, a Guatemalan citizen accused of narco trafficking & linked to the El Mayo faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, was deported to Guatemala by Mexico.

He has been involved in precursor chemical trafficking for over 10 yrs

by El Huaso

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40 people kidnapped in total belonging to seven families.

Videos showed several hundred migrants ripping down barricades and rushing past Texas National Guard and to reach the border fence in El Paso, Texas.

By El Huaso, video from James Breeden

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On March 14, US law enforcement simultaneously served search warrants at various homes throughout Tulare, Kings, and Fresno counties in Central California as part of Operation SLO Ride, directed those with ties to the Sinaloa Cartel.

by Socalj-BB

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Last week, a confidential witness in a high-profile criminal case alleged that an Israeli embassy participated in a money-laundering scheme linked to the illicit trade of cocaine involving the Sinaloa Cartel and Colombian traffickers.

by Socalj-BB

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Two were men killed after armed men attacked an Alcoholics Anonymous shelter in Acapulco, Guerrero last Sunday, 10 March.

by El Huaso

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Jalisco journalist Jaime Barrera Rodríguez was found alive, after being reported missing on Monday, March 11, his family stated. Rodríguez was kidnapped by a group of armed men.

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Matthew Allen, Director of the Los Angeles office of the DEA, said in an interview with Univision Noticias that the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, is still alive, despite rumors.

by Socalj-BB

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A Dutch court has sentenced the head of a brutal cocaine cartel to life imprisonment over a campaign of murders and attempted killings that prosecutors described as “a well-oiled killing machine”. In the Marengo trial, 17 people were convicted for 6 murders and 4 attempted…

Dr Robert J Bunker Small Wars Journal 'Rare Tracked Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) Improvised Armored Fighting Vehicle (IAFV).' C/O Futures Cartel Imagery Archive. 4 Mar 2024, cofutures.net/post/rare-trac…

Irish Gardai arrested suspected members of a Sinaloa Cartel cell operating in Ireland following a nearly €33 million crystal meth seizure last week. Gardai does not believe the seizure was for Irish distribution, but headed for Australia.

by Socalj-BB

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A chemical broker responsible for supplying a Mexican cartel with enough precursor chemicals to produce more than 2 billion doses of fentanyl and 700 million doses of methamphetamine was sentenced Feb. 23 to almost 19 years in federal prison.

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This is the story of those tapes: the CIA, a DEA supervisor named Walter White, an earthquake and an unknown ranch in Veracruz. My latest:

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