Jaime Gonzalez-Duran was “one of Los Zetas’ most violent leaders” and he smuggled millions of dollars worth of drugs into the United States, federal officials say.

Drug cartels are renowned for their violence as mafia bosses do all they can to get rid of their enemies, but one clan in ...

“El Mencho’s” son, Rubén Oseguera — known as “El Menchito” — was sentenced to March to life in prison after his conviction in ...

A former Mexican police officer ... police officers teamed with soldiers on a secret mission to arrest cartel boss El Mencho, As the helicopters flew over a convoy of CJNG trucks and SUVs ...

ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) partnered with a special law enforcement unit of the government of Mexico to arrest a criminal boss affiliated with the Sinaloa Cartel known simply as "440." ...

The death of one drug cartel boss and the capture of another sparked a chilling wave of murders in the Mexican border city of Tijuana this week, with eleven homicides reported to have taken place ...

The alleged betrayal triggered an ongoing war between cartel factions in Mexico, and left Zambada, 75, facing a possible death sentence for drug and murder charges in the Eastern District of New York.

Alejandro Gertz Manero, Mexico’s attorney general, told reporters in Mexico that the cartel bosses cannot be executed in the United States, as reported by the Spanish-language outlet El País.

Mexico's transfer of 29 cartel figures — including Rafael Caro Quintero and accused Zeta members — has led to jockeying by attorneys willing to defend them.

though El Mencho lived in Mexico with his wife and children. Agents say, in a male-dominated drug industry, Mendoza didn’t fit the profile of a typical cartel boss. She had a ...

WASHINGTON — The son of a Mexican drug cartel boss was sentenced Friday to life in prison for helping his father run one of the country’s largest and most violent narcotics trafficking ...

Extraditions of Rafael Caro Quintero and 28 other drug cartel bosses ends historical reticence to hand over crime bosses to the U.S., which has been increasing pressure on Mexico to act against ...