Cartel

Cartel activities are not confined to the southern border states – even small towns in the least populated states are impacted

DEA Special Agents Steve Murphy and Javier Pena were responsible for the downfall and capture of the world’s first narco-terrorist

Brian Houston is awaiting sentencing on a drug smuggling conviction, a fact Border Patrol didn't know when he was screened

A .50-caliber rifle that Mexican officials sent for tracing after January arrest has been found to be associated with the failed "gun-walking" operation

Fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was flown to a mountainous region of his home state of Sinaloa following his daring July 11 escape from prison through a mile-long tunnel

In a scheme befitting a caper movie, Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1.5-kilometer (1 mile) tunnel

U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions on Mexico's violent Jalisco New Generation cartel a day after the gang mounted a bloody ambush

Mexican police and soldiers on Wednesday arrested the man widely considered to be the most important leader of the Zetas drug cartel

The gusher of oil and money flowing from the Bakken fields has made policing more demanding and dangerous

Unlikely alliance involved a group of pacifist Mexican Mennonites growing tons of pot and working with a notoriously vicious cartel to ship it across border

About 1K officers fanned out across city's downtown to search dozens of businesses suspected of taking bulk cash funneled by drug cartels for clothing exported to Mexico

One message read "silver or lead" in Spanish, a threat heard in Mexico signifying pay up or get shot