Category Archives: Mexican Drug Violence

Mexican cartels setting up shop across U.S.

Frediberto Pineda, a member of the Sinaloa cartel, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for heading a cocaine operation in South Carolina’s capital. Similar outposts have popped up in Seattle, Anchorage and Minneapolis. The house on Knightner Road is small, blue and white, with a stone front porch and a string of Christmas lights [...]

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4 decapitated bodies hung from bridge in Mexican city besieged by drug gang infighting

FOXNEWS.COM CUERNAVACA, Mexico (AP) — The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords. A gang led by kingpin Hector Beltran Leyva took responsibility for the killings in a message left with the bodies, the attorney general’s office of Morelos [...]

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Ariz. Sheriff Gets Death Threats Over New Law

A high-profile Arizona law-enforcement officer who has been outspoken about his support for the state’s controversial new immigration law is receiving death threats, myFOXphoenix.com reported late Monday. Some of the threats against Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu were from the Mexican mafia and drug cartel members. Outside law enforcement teams brought in to investigate the [...]

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21 killed in shootout between drug, migrant trafficking gangs near Arizona border

HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the U.S. border Thursday left 21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said. The fire fight occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Arizona border, near the city of Nogales, [...]

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