CBS News

Gunmen killed a high-ranking member of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel wanted by the United States for drug trafficking, a source in the Sinaloa state government said Friday, confirming Mexican media reports. Eliseo Imperial Castro, alias "Cheyo Antrax," was the nephew of cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada. Both are U.S. fugitives and the State Department has offered a $5 million reward for information leading to Zambada's arrest. According to Mexican media, Imperial Castro was ambushed on a highway in Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico, on Thursday.The U.S. Treasury Department had previously described him as "a high-ranking member of the Los Antrax organization, the...

Sinaloa cartel leader, a U.S. fugitive, is shot dead in Mexico

A Kenyan Airways flight landed at Toussaint Louverture International Airport early Tuesday with the first contingent of an international armed security mission, viewed as a vital step in helping Haiti combat deadly criminal gangs to restore security. The 200 specialized Kenyan officers and their support staff were greeted on the...

‘Lay down your guns,’ Haiti’s prime minister tells gangs as Kenyan forces arrive

NBC News

A defiant former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced Wednesday in New York to 45 years in prison for teaming up with some bribe-paying drug traffickers for over a decade to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine made it to the United States. Judge P. Kevin Castel sentenced...

Ex-Honduran president sentenced to 45 years for helping traffickers get tons of cocaine into U.S.

Los Angeles, CA

The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Another federal case highlights how Mexican cartel operatives in the U.S. are partnering with the Chinese underworld to traffic illicit drugs and launder the proceeds.
                The Justice Department announced the result of a multi-year investigation after the DEA uncovered a partnership among Mexican Sinaloa Cartel associates operating in Los Angeles and a Chinese criminal syndicate operating in Los Angeles and China.
                The Sinaloa Cartel and Chinese...

Feds bust Sinaloa Cartel associates, Chinese-linked money launderers in California

Guatemalan police on Sunday transferred more than 200 gang members from a prison where they operated a call center for criminal purposes, raised chickens and looked out on a crocodile-filled lake.Some 400 police were involved in the operation to move 225 members of the Barrio 18 gang out of the prison nicknamed "El Infiernito" or Little Hell, where they enjoyed access to such luxuries as TV sets and fridges, even raising chickens, officials said."The prison once again belongs to the country," Interior Minister Francisco Jimenez announced on social media.He vowed the facility would be stripped down and rebuilt as a...

Gang members at Guatemala prison had call center, crocodiles

Santa Teresa, NM

DC News Now

A Border Patrol encounter with two migrants in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, has led to the rescue of 13 Central Americans who were beaten, tortured, extorted and sexually assaulted in a house in Juarez, Mexico, U.S. officials say.

Migrants were burned, beaten, raped at cartel stash house, feds say

El Paso, TX

USA TODAY

A trip through the sewers to cross the border may not seem like VIP treatment, but it can cost thousands of dollars.

Mexican cartels offering pricey VIP package for migrants trying to get into US

Colombian authorities are searching for two women last seen leaving an Airbnb, where actor Alex Araya was found dead earlier this month. Araya, a Chilean national, arrived in Medellín on June 1. He went on a Tinder date with a woman on June 6, his brother Eduardo Araya informed the Chilean news outlet La Tercera. At 11:30 pm, Araya entered the home with the suspects. They emerged two hours later.

Actor Alex Araya Found Dead After Tinder Date With Two Women Who Allegedly Robbed Him

North Miami Beach, FL

At least a dozen FBI agents deployed high-powered weaponry while swarming a North Miami Beach home in a possible raid Tuesday morning, reports say. The agency confirmed to the Miami Herald that it was conducting “court-ordered law enforcement activity” in the 3900 block of Northeast 171 Street. Specifics on the activity are unclear.

FBI swarms a North Miami Beach home with military machines and stun grenades: reports

Georgia State

Atlanta, GA

The metro Atlanta judge arrested outside a Buckhead nightclub after allegedly hitting a police officer has lost her job in response to 30 ethics charges brought by the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission. Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson, 38, has been fighting judicial misconduct allegations since she was elected to...

Judge arrested at Atlanta nightclub removed from office

New York City, NY

New York Post



Biden aide flat-out lies on prices, Jerry Nadler dodges on migrant crime and more

A migrant accused of shooting two NYPD officers claimed a vicious Venezuelan gang has been smuggling guns into city-run shelters by stuffing them in food delivery bags, prosecutors revealed on June 26.

Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, 19, will be placed in protective custody after his explosive accusations against the notorious Tren de Aragua gang during a Queens criminal court hearing. NY Post reporter Kevin Sheehan shares this story.

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Queens, NY

A migrant accused of shooting and wounding two NYPD cops in Queens told authorities firing at police was “common practice” back home in Venezuela — although he claimed he didn’t mean to open fire, prosecutors said Wednesday. Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, who prosecutors say shot the...

Migrant who shot NYPD cops says that’s ‘common practice’ back in Venezuela, prosecutors say

The Eastern Military Zone troops, in coordination with the security agencies and the Anti-Narcotics Department, foiled a major drug smuggling attempt from Syria early Wednesday, according to an army statement. A source at the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) said that the operation resulted in the death of one smuggler,...

Army foils ‘major’ drug smuggling attempt from Syria

Pompano Beach, FL

(NewsNation) — The leader of a Haitian gang was sentenced to prison Monday for his role in a gunrunning operation and laundering ransoms for U.S. hostages. Joly Germaine, 31, of Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, was sentenced Monday to 35 years in prison for his part in the operation, which involved smuggling guns to Haiti in violation of United States export laws, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

DOJ: Haitian gang leaders used hostage ransoms to smuggle firearms

Reuters

YAJALON, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of residents deserted the small Mexican town of Tila, fleeing an intensive three-day siege by heavily armed men and leaving it a ghost town, and are still too afraid to return despite government troops now patrolling the empty streets.

Shootings and extortion create ghost town in southern Mexico

Mexican cartels are now offering VIP “travel agency” packages worth as much as $15,000 to help illegal immigrants sneak into the United States via a stream of underground tunnels. 

The so-called VIP smuggling has become so lucrative that the cartels are now focusing roughly 70% of their criminal activity on getting migrants across the US-Mexico border — instead of their usual drug trafficking, USA Today reported.

The La Linea cartel, for example, has allegedly been shepherding roughly 1,000 VIP migrants from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas every month, a senior Mexican official told the outlet. 



“Criminals have shifted from...

Mexican cartels offering $15K VIP ‘travel agency’ packages to help illegal immigrants sneak into US

Military Times

Jeffersson Arango Castellanos targeted the service members while they were on temporary duty in Bogota, Colombia.

Colombian man who drugged, robbed US soldiers sentenced to 48 years

North Las Vegas, NV

LAS VEGAS — A 47-year-old man suspected in the shooting deaths of five people in North Las Vegas late Monday killed himself when confronted by officers Tuesday, police said. The North Las Vegas Police Department said two women, one in her 40s and one in her 50s, were found shot to death just after 10 p.m. Monday in an apartment in the 300 block of Casa Norte Drive. A 13-year-old girl found in the apartment with an apparent gunshot wound was taken to University Medical Center in critical condition.

5 killed in North Las Vegas before gunman dies by suicide

Kansas City, MO

The Independent

 The bodies of a young U.S. missionary couple killed by gang members in Haiti’s capital were returned to their family in Missouri on Friday.The parents of Natalie Lloyd, 21, announced on Facebook the arrival of the remains of their daughter and son-in-law, 23-year-old Davy Lloyd, at the Kansas City airport.“Praise God!” Ben and Naomi Baker wrote in the post. The couple and a Haitian man they worked with were fatally shot by gang members in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince last week after they were attacked while leaving a youth group activity held at a local church.The third victim was...

Remains of US missionaries killed by criminal gang members in Haiti returned to family

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The e-Texan

New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

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U.S. seeks life in prison for Haiti gang leader ‘Yonyon’ for role in weapons smuggling

Federal prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for the leader of a notorious Haitian gang who has pleaded guilty to facilitating the purchase and smuggling of...

U.S. seeks life in prison for Haiti gang leader ‘Yonyon’ for role in weapons smuggling

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