A former high-level Drug Enforcement agent was indicted on charges of conspiring to traffic drugs and launder millions of ...

A former senior Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and provide support to a Mexican drug cartel, an ...

A former high-level Drug Enforcement Administration official allegedly helped a Mexican cartel spread cocaine in the US and ...

The heir to a Mexican cartel empire, largely built on saturating the U.S. with fentanyl and other drugs, was expected to spill cartel secrets this month to prosecutors in Washington, D.C. Instead, ...

Sanctions recently imposed by the United States and Mexico on CJNG members allegedly linked to two high-profile murders demonstrate that the criminal group is one of the few remaining with a ...

MORELIA, Mexico ― “I had to burn some guys alive; that was my first task,” the 18-year-old said with some excitement in his voice, recalling his first assignment in a Mexican cartel. “We were chilling ...

While the CJNG adopted the Zetas model, it did so with some modifications. For one thing, the CJNG managed to diversify its criminal portfolio to include oil theft and extorting farmers. However, ...

The confrontation between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and self-defense groups for control of the territory has intensified and shows the difficulties in rebuilding the social fabric in Michoacán ...

Mexico's fastest-rising cartel, the Jalisco New Generation gang, has a reputation for ruthlessness and violence unlike any since the fall of the old Zetas cartel. In parts of the country it is ...

This profile is based on a nine-month investigation by The Courier Journal, including a review of state and federal court records and interviews with U.S. drug agents and Mexican police, businessmen, ...