All Blog Posts Tagged 'Mexico' (139)

By Niko Vorobyov for Gangsters Inc.

It sounded simple. The guns had already been bought in the United States by a straw buyer and crossed the border into Nogales, on the frontier with Arizona – most of the firepower in Mexico’s bloody narco wars is…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Eight alleged associates of the Pomona Sur Lokotes organization were arrested on Friday for their alleged roles in trafficking large quantities of…

By Clarence Walker Jr. for Gangsters Inc.

Notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman-Loera once ruled the Sinaloa drug Cartel with an iron fist for several years. Sinaloa Cartel, with hundreds of players enshrined in the group, is one of…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez (photo above), wanted for allegedly directing his associates to track and murder a man in Southlake, Texas, has been added to the…

By Christian Cipollini for Gangsters Inc.

Early in 2018, I was contacted by a colleague on behalf of an incarcerated man by the name of José Manuel Martinez. My colleague explained that Mr. Martinez, a convicted killer, was interested in telling his story, and…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is the most powerful drug syndicate in Mexico and remains fiercely loyal to its fugitive leader…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

An alleged high-ranking member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was extradited from Uruguay to the United States…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The objective of the Justice Department and the DEA is to put the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación in a chokehold. It explains the name of their major six-month investigation targeting the powerful Mexican drug cartel:…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Talk about walking straight into a trap! 33-year-old Jessica Johanna Oseguera Gonzalez (photo above) was arrested at the federal courthouse in…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

An associate and nephew of infamous narco kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero was charged in Brooklyn federal court on Monday with participating in an international conspiracy to manufacture and distribute…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Some men are above the law. In Mexico this group of men tends to be quite large at the moment. High-placed drug lords live a life of luxury wherever they choose. Even inside prison walls. And when they want out?…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Drug money is fast money, but it isn’t always easy money. Two Mexican narcos found that out a few days ago, when they…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

U.S. authorities have exposed the longest illicit cross-border tunnel ever discovered along the Southwest border. The tunnel originates in…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A Sinaloa drug cartel distributor was sentenced to 15 years in prison for drugs and gun crimes on December 6. 51-year-old…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

A member of a “substantial drug trafficking organization with direct ties to the Sinaloa cartel” was sentenced on…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Gulf Cartel commandante Luis Ivan Nino-Duenez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to import large amounts of…

By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.

Nothing is more despicable than a public servant abusing the trust citizens placed in him or her. Especially when so many people suffer by his or her actions. Like in the case of Edgar Veytia, the former State…

By Niko Vorobyov

Over the past few years, I’ve been putting together a book, Dopeworld, about the international war on drugs. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have a horse in this race, having spent a year in the hoosegow for distributing various brain-tickling treats, and I drew upon that experience. I’ve also travelled…

By David Amoruso

Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced to life in prison plus an extra 30 years this morning. The 62-year-old Sinaloa cartel boss was convicted in February by a jury of all charges. He was also ordered to pay $12.6 billion in forfeiture. In court, El Chapo told the judge:…

By David Amoruso

Mexican drug cartels have saturated the crystal meth market in the United States and are currently laying the foundations to start flooding Western Europe with their addictive product. Recent arrests in the Netherlands indicate that members of the Sinaloa Cartel are operating meth labs there, producing…