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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -A shootout near the capital of Mexico's Sinaloa state killed 19 suspected gang members, while one local cartel leader was arrested, Mexico's defense ministry said on Tuesday ...
A man charged in a Father’s Day barbecue killing in north Wichita, who cut his ankle monitor and fled after being charged with premeditated first-degree murder, was arrested in Mexico by U.S ...
In the most sensational recent instance, Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former security chief and the former face of the anti-drug war, was convicted in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn last year ...
Guzmán and a lieutenant escaped through a secret tunnel, emerging 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) away and stealing an automobile at gunpoint. A statewide alert was issued for the stolen vehicle, and the Federal Police located and intercepted it about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Los Mochis near the town of Juan José Ríos.
On 23 May 2022, eleven people were killed in a mass shooting at the Gala Hotel and a nearby bar in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. [1] At about 10 p.m. CDT on 23 May 2022, 15 hooded gunmen from the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel stormed the Gala Hotel in Celaya. [2] The hotel had a bar at street level, which they stormed into and killed two men and women.
On 24 March 2019, local Santa Rosa de Lima cartel leader Agustin Medina Soto was arrested. [11] On 16 July 2019, it was revealed that all of the remaining resources of the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel, as well as the property of its leader José Antonio Yépez Ortiz (alias “El Marro”), were seized by Mexican authorities. [ 12 ]
A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by U.S. authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers.
For many Mexicans, the arrest of Guzmán paralleled in importance to the killing of Pablo Escobar and even to the death of Osama bin Laden. [135] Though the idea of Guzmán as a near-legendary criminal remained high, the arrest greatly reduced his status in Mexico's narco folklore more to a man than to a myth. [136] [137]