Prosecutors say retired Navy captain Miguel Ángel Solano Ruiz, alias 'Capitán Sol,' gambled 60 million pesos on an 18,785-peso pension. He was arrested in Zapopan, Jalisco, in the Navy-linked 'huachicol fiscal' case.
A gray Hyundai Tucson ran a checkpoint on Culiacán's Álvaro Obregón avenue, traded gunfire with soldiers and crashed near Villa Bonita. Two men inside were bound hand and foot.
Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, the alleged Tren de Aragua 'Prometheus' and the FBI's first cyber Ten Most Wanted fugitive, pleaded not guilty in Nebraska on Oct. 2, 2026, after Treasury sanctioned two Mexico-based firms tied…
Gunmen shot two Mazatlán municipal police officers early Oct. 3, 2026, on the highway to Mazatlán's international airport; Sinaloa's security agency says the airport is operating normally.
Mario Hidalgo Argüello, 'El Nariz,' arrested in Culiacán in 2014 and later extradited to the U.S., has been sentenced to 29 years in Mexico, the FGR said Oct. 2, 2026.
José Marcelino “N,” “El Marce,” arrested in Cancún in 2025 as an alleged Los Chapitos cell leader, survived being shot in the head in Mérida’s Montes de Amé on Oct. 2, 2026; Yucatán’s SSP says…
Some members of a Manhattan and Salina, Kansas, drug ring drove to Mexico and brought back liquid methamphetamine, which was then turned into crystal meth in Kansas, federal prosecutors say. Nine members of the ring…
Joshua Best, 41, of Billings, Montana, was sentenced Oct. 1 to 14 years and two months, a week after his brother Raymond got the same term. Both were caught in Mexico, prosecutors say.
Michoacán's governor says Alejandro “N,” alias “El Macas,” a trusted bodyguard of slain Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo, belongs to a cartel. He denies the defense's claim that the move to El Altiplano was over threats.
A judge ordered Jhon Keny Moreno Segura, Juchitán’s former municipal police commissioner, to stand trial. Oaxaca prosecutors accuse him of using his post to protect CJNG-linked ‘Los Cromos.’ He is the third person sent to…