Harfuch says “El Junior,” an alleged Los Rusos cell leader accused of extorting Acapulco Mercado Central vendors, is the seventh arrested over the October 2025 attack on SSPC agents.
Eliseo Henriquez-Joya, 35, a Honduran man living illegally in Houston, got 72 months for leading a ring that hid about 188 migrants in sealed truck compartments, federal prosecutors in Texas said.
A Manhattan federal judge gave alleged Los Chapitos fentanyl lab operator Carlos Omar Félix Gutiérrez 92 months, the sentence prosecutors sought, Milenio and Diario de México report.
A State Department–coordinated OSAC analysis says the CJNG has not fractured since El Mencho’s death in February, though arrests have weakened it, and warns violence may stay at earlier levels, Reforma reports.
Five men Michoacán authorities tie to La Birotiza, armed wing of the Los Reyes cartel, were arrested in Los Reyes on Oct. 9; one is suspected of collecting extortion payments from a soft-drink company Infobae…
Juan Lira Maldonado, “El Moco,” a fugitive since 2024 whose Chignahuapan election win was annulled, was arrested by marines and Puebla police in Zacatlán on Oct. 8; officials tie him to fuel theft, homicide and…
HSI agents found 12 people hiding in a closet at a Phoenix stash house whose doors needed a key to open from inside, prosecutors say. Hector Ambrosio Ruiz, 30, of Mexico, is charged with harboring.
Oaxaca prosecutors say gunmen who killed Pinotepa Comunica director Hamurabi Huesca on Oct. 9 were targeting alleged local crime boss ‘El Darío,’ whom Huesca, also a taxi driver, was waiting to pick up.
One of the men got a message to his mother. Jalisco investigators and Army troops then found Carlos Gaudiel Mitoma Pérez, 21, and Luis Ángel Olivo Patiño, 24, alive in Puerto Vallarta. El Financiero reports…
Gunmen opened fire on a car wash in Mazatlán’s Flores Magón neighborhood on Oct. 8, 2026, killing three people, including a 17-year-old Conalep student, local outlets reported.