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Sonora prosecutors say a 30-year-old U.S. citizen shot a Nogales dentist over a loose tooth, then died firing on agents serving an arrest warrant in Agua Prieta, across from Douglas, Arizona.
Border Patrol agents found three migrants hidden under a speedboat's seats, an AR-style rifle and four suspected pipe bombs after tracking it from Port Mansfield to Corpus Christi, Texas, KENS 5 reports.
Defensa says Jesús Abraham “N,” “El Talibán,” a trusted man of Los Chapitos’ “El Beny 17,” is linked to the Jan. 23 kidnapping and killing of 10 Vizsla Silver workers and the Feb. 3 kidnapping…
At his first hearing, César Jáuregui told a judge he sees no grounds for the charges over the April El Pinal raid. The judge barred a fugitive co-accused’s statement.
Guerrero prosecutors arrested Taxco’s municipal director of regulations on Oct. 16 over the April kidnapping of Mayor Juan Andrés Vega Carranza’s father, and say he belongs to La Familia Michoacana. A Taxco police officer was…
Federal court records show 'El Cara de Cochi,' arrested Oct. 10 in Mexico, has been under a sealed Tucson indictment since 2019, as defendant No. 2 beside Caro Quintero's nephew 'El R.'
El Universal says César Morfín Morfín, 'El Primito,' filed an amparo on Oct. 13 against an arrest order for extradition to the United States, though he has not been arrested.
Sinaloa’s security agency confirmed 49 inmates were moved out of the Aguaruto and El Castillo prisons on Oct. 15, a week after 12 died in fights at the Mazatlán prison.
Chihuahua police arrested former state prosecutor César Jáuregui Moreno on Oct. 17 over the April drug-lab raid in the Sierra Tarahumara that ended in a crash killing two U.S. agents and two state officers.
Federal agents arrested a man and seized eight vehicles, including BMWs, plus cash in foreign currency in a raid on a home in Mazatlán's Mangle Marina y Golf subdivision. Officials have not named him or…