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

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

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

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

The Gulf forms part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean along the northwestern coast of Mexico, which lies between the Baja California Peninsula to the west and the Mexican mainland to the east. It is ...

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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. Air Force RC-135V Rivet Joint conducted a highly unusual flight in the Gulf of California yesterday, between Mexico’s ...