Crime
He ran two unions, extorted water wells, held a 60-year-old woman at gunpoint, and operated across a dozen municipalities. This week, the law finally caught up with him.
Extortion
Merchants in Mexicali receive up to 3 extortion calls per week and many have stopped answering their phones, the local chamber of commerce says.
Drug Trafficking
An investigation links security secretary García Harfuch's father to the protection of El Mayo and the founding of the Guadalajara Cartel.
Crime
Veracruz authorities detained the head of Los Sinaloas, a criminal gang with roots in Sinaloa Cartel operations that has terrorized the state's southern corridor with drug trafficking, extortion, and fuel theft.
Crime
An armed confrontation at a Petroleos Mexicanos installation in Veracruz left two people dead, highlighting the ongoing security crisis plaguing Mexico's state oil company infrastructure.
Mexico
The state of Chihuahua has emerged as a critical focus in Mexico's security strategy, receiving significant military support to combat criminal organizations.
Organized Crime
Mexican security forces are conducting operations in the mountainous regions of Estado de Mexico, where cartel members have established hideouts in terrain that provides natural cover just miles from the country's capital.
Organized Crime
A 33-year-old Colombian was picked up in Tenango del Valle, State of Mexico, after allegedly threatening a shopkeeper and trying to bribe police. Authorities suspect he is part of a "gota a gota" network tied to the CJNG.
Mexico
The operation targeted cartel financial infrastructure in Estado de Mexico, Mexico's most populous state and a key industrial corridor bordering Mexico City.
Guerrero
A suspected cartel gunman was arrested moments after carrying out a brazen daytime killing in the Montaña region, where state presence is virtually nonexistent.
Drug Trafficking
CJNG and Los Chapitos, normally locked in a bloody turf war, are working together to dominate huachicol operations in Mexico's most violent state, according to FGR intelligence.
Drug Trafficking
A $5 million payment. A suspended federal judge with unexplained bank deposits. A cartel heir who walked free from El Altiplano. The García Luna trial in Brooklyn pulled the thread on how Iván Archivaldo Guzmán's 2008 release was engineered.