New Mexico State

Santa Teresa, NM

Border Report

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

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

El Paso, TX

New York Post

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

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

Latin Times

Violence and migration dynamics are reshaping Tapachula, a city on Mexico's southern border, according to an in-depth piece by InSight Crime. Once dominated by Central American street gangs like MS13 and Barrio 18, Tapachula is now under the control of powerful Mexican drug cartels: the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG). This shift reflects broader criminal influences and the evolving role of the city as a crucial hub for migration and drug trafficking.

How drug violence and migration are reshaping a city in the south of Mexico

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NewSantaAna

The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Irving, TX

Two workers were allegedly shot and killed by an illegal migrant at a Texas Chick-fil-A on Wednesday — in the latest disturbing incident believed to have been committed by an asylum seeker.

Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta, a 37-year-old native of El Salvador, was arrested and charged with capital murder after he opened fire in the fast-food joint in Irving around 3:40 p.m., according to police.

Two people, one identified as Patricia Portillo, died at the scene from gunshot wounds. The other victim’s identity is being withheld pending family notification, a police spokesperson told The Post.

He fled the scene in a silver 1997...

Illegal migrant fatally shoots two workers at Texas Chick-fil-A: police

Saint Johns County, FL

Hastings, FL

Jacksonville Today

Eight people have been arrested on drug charges stemming from an undercover investigation at a convenience store in Hastings, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

8 arrested in Hastings drug and gambling bust

Honolulu, HI

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Two Maui visitors who were carjacked and robbed at gunpoint had to run, hide and hike for their lives to the top of Haleakalā. Itʻs an ordeal authorities did not reveal publicly until NewsNation affiliate KHON2 started asking questions. Now the victims are speaking out to warn others about danger on Maui.

Maui tourist couple climb Haleakalā to survive being hunted

(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden said making Social Security solvent is an easy fix. “Make the very wealthy begin to pay their fair share,” he said during Thursday’s CNN debate. Former President Donald Trump countered by saying “This man is going to single-handedly destroy Social Security,” but...

Trump tries to tie Social Security woes to illegal immigration

Lakeland, FL

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said it arrested dozens of people in a multi-agency investigation into a fentanyl trafficking operation out of Lakeland. The sheriff’s office said “Operation Rooske,” which first began in January 2021, resulted in the arrests of 64 people and shut...

64 arrested in Florida fentanyl trafficking operation: Sheriff

Arizona State

Syracuse, NY

The 21-year-old woman who was allegedly suffocated and killed by an illegal migrant on her birthday in Syracuse fled abuse by her lover in Ecuador, The Post can reveal.

Jhon Moises Chacaguasay-Ilbis, 21, who is also from Ecuador, has been charged with killing Joselyn Jhoana Toaquiza, after arranging to meet the victim for her birthday at his Airbnb in Syracuse on June 18, the Post-Standard reported. 



Toaquiza crossed the southern border illegally into Lukeville, Arizona, on June 19, 2023, Homeland Security sources told The Post.

While in Border Patrol custody, she shared that she feared returning to Ecuador because she was being threatened by a past...

21-year-old allegedly suffocated by illegal migrant in Syracuse fled Ecuador because of lover’s abuse: sources

Los Angeles County, CA

Lancaster, CA

The family of a toddler who died from a fentanyl overdose is suing the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). While under the custody of his mother and grandfather, Justin Bulley, 17 months old, died on Feb. 18 at a Lancaster home after ingesting fentanyl found in the home.

Family files $65M lawsuit in California toddler fentanyl death

Indiana State

Lebanon, IN

LEBANON, Ind. — A Lebanon woman was arrested after she reportedly attacked her children in a rage earlier this month. Domestic Battery Committed In The Presence of a Child Less than 16 Years Old. Domestic Battery On A Person Less Than 14 Years Old. Strangulation. The Lebanon Police Department...

Indiana mom arrested after choking son in trailer park

Georgia State

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Coffee County, GA

Daily Coffee Press

Over the last few weeks, several individuals appeared before Judge Dwayne Gillis and entered guilty pleas on felony charges in the Superior Court of Coffee County. The majority of the defendants received probation, while some will soon be transported to a Georgia prison to serve their sentences. Among the twenty-one cases, ten of the defendants faced felony drug charges.

More than 20 Individuals Plead Guilty and Sentenced on Felony Charges in Coffee County

A reward for information leading to the arrest of Ruja Ignatova, known as the Missing Cryptoqueen, has been increased by US authorities to $5m (£4m). The Bulgarian-born German woman, 44, is wanted by the FBI for orchestrating a $4.5bn cryptocurrency scam called OneCoin. She has been missing since 2017...

Reward for fugitive ‘Cryptoqueen’ raised to $5m

New York City, NY

(NewsNation) — An illegal immigrant who is accused of shooting at two NYPD officers has claimed guns are being smuggled into New York City migrant shelters in food delivery bags by a Venezuelan gang. Bernardo Raul Castro Mata admitted to detectives that he was a member of the notorious...

Gang accused of smuggling guns into NYC migrant shelters

Polk County, FL

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Uncovering Florida

The Polk County Sheriff's Office uploaded a video today addressing the incident involving 36-year-old Joshua Garcia, a convicted felon and meth user. "You can't fix stupid, you can only arrest it," Sheriff Grady Judd noted in his morning briefing on the situation.

'You Can't Fix Stupid': Mother & Son Duo Arrested in Polk County

The Independent

 A highway accident Friday involving an SUV carrying aides to Claudia Sheinbaum, who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has resulted in at least one fatality. Scheinbaum was not injured.Sheinbaum’s spokesman said the advance car hit another vehicle on a highway in the northern state of Coahuila, and that one person in the other car was killed. Several Sheinbaum aides were being treated for injuries suffered in the crash. Sheinbaum was traveling in another vehicle in the convoy well behind the advance car and was not injured. While she has not yet been formally declared president-elect, she won by...

Aides' vehicle in a convoy carrying Mexico's next president involved in a crash that killed 1

Camden County, GA

The Current GA

A white sheriff’s deputy in rural Southeast Georgia has responded to a federal lawsuit filed against him by the family of Leonard Cure, a wrongfully convicted Black man from metro Atlanta who he fatally shot during a traffic stop last year along Interstate 95 just north of the Georgia-Florida border.

Camden County deputy denies excessive force allegation in killing of exonerated Black man

NewsBreak

Mexican cartels offer ‘VIP’ border crossing packages to migrants

SAN ANTONIO (NewsNation) — Mexican cartels are offering so-called “VIP” packages for migrants to enter the U.S., charging up to $15,000 to help them cross the...

Mexican cartels offer ‘VIP’ border crossing packages to migrants

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