Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Mexican drug cartel

Mexican drug cartel stories: 8 news summaries

 Mexican Gangs Move 
 Into US Indian Land 

Drug cartels take advantage of overworked cops

Nov 5, 09 2:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Mexican drug gangs have been rapidly expanding their marijuana-growing operations in the US in recent years, especially on Indian reservations. The gangs take advantage of underfunded tribal police departments, large tracts of unused land, and overlapping jurisdictions to set up grows on reservations from California to South Dakota, authorities say.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
marijuana • drug cartel • Native American • tribes • drug traffickers • reservation • Mexican drug cartel

300 Arrested
in Drug Raids Across US

Feds crack down on violent Mexican cartel specializing in meth

Oct 22, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(AP) - In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the US, federal officials today announced the arrests of more than 300 people in raids across the country aimed at the newest and most violent cartel. La Familia has earned a reputation for dominating the methamphetamine trade and for using... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Mexico • drug trafficking • methamphetamine • drug cartel • Eric Holder • narcotics • Mexican drug cartel • La Familia

 US-Grown 
 Mom n' Pop Pot 
 Burns Mexican Cartels 

Economic forces more potent than law enforcement

Oct 7, 09 10:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mexican drug cartels are facing an opponent more formidable than law enforcement: competition. The long-growing illicit US pot industry has gotten a shot in the arm from the new rules surrounding medical marijuana, the Washington Post reports. Whereas once Mexican and Colombian groups produced nearly all the pot consumed... More »

MORE ABOUT:
War on Drugs • medical marijuana • marijuana • drug cartel • marijuana distribution • Mexican drug cartel

(Newser) - Hooded gunmen killed 17 people after storming a Mexican drug and alcohol rehab center in Ciudad Juarez yesterday, Sky News reports. The men, believed to be hitmen from a drug cartel, forced the patients to line up in a corrider before gunning them down. Gangs have targeted rehab clinics in... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Mexico • rehabilitation center • massacre • Mexican drug war • drug cartel • shooting • Mexican drug cartel

Mexican Drug Informants Import Violence to US

Intra-cartel murder shocks El Paso; feds gave trafficker visa

Aug 27, 09 5:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration and state governments are spending billions to keep Mexico's escalating drug war from spilling over the border. But the feds fighting trafficking have also relied on Mexican cartel members for intelligence—and that, says the Washington Post, has unleashed gangland-style violence in American cities. Drug kingpins living... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Texas • Mexico • murder • Mexican drug war • El Paso • drug cartel • drug traffickers • Mexican drug cartel

(Newser) - The La Brea fire that’s scorched 90,000 acres of California is the most visible sign yet of the glut of Mexican-run drug farms lurking in the state’s forests, the LA Times reports. Authorities are all but certain the fire was started by drug traffickers at a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
California • marijuana • California wildfires • pot • Mexican drug cartel

(Newser) - An illegal marijuana farm is responsible for a blaze that has charred more than 75,000 acres in Santa Barbara County, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reports. Authorities say a Mexican drug organization started the fire in the cooking area of a pot farm, and those behind it are likely... More »

MORE ABOUT:
marijuana • farm • California wildfires • weed • Mexican drug cartel

(Newser) - Members of a notorious Mexican drug cartel have been indicted for running a San Diego kidnap-murder ring that dissolved two victims in acid, reports the Los Angeles Times. Gang members dressed as police officers and kidnapped well-to-do victims across the border; they collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom... More »

MORE ABOUT:
California • crime • Mexico • San Diego • Tijuana • Mexican drug cartel

8 Stories


from our news partners