3 h. ago Ecuador offers huge £780,000 for whereabouts of brutal drug cartel leader Fito after jail break

Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias El Fito, escaped from jail in Ecuador more than a year ago and an international hunt for the notorious drug lord is continuing with a $1million reward for information

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3 d. ago Mexican cartel leader’s son is sentenced to life in prison for role in major drug trafficking plot

The son of a Mexican drug cartel boss has been sentenced in Washington to life in prison for his own leadership role in one of the country’s largest and most violent narcotics trafficking organizations

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3 d. ago Slain gang leader who 'lured nine Mexican students to cartel

José 'EL Jocha' Lavariega was seen in the clip trying to scare one of the young people inside a hotel - before they were all found dead, with their hands chopped off, on the side of a road in Puebla.

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1 week ago Mexican drug lord pleads not guilty to killing of DEA agent after US extradition

Rafael Caro Quintero arraigned in New York over federal agent’s death after years as one of US’s most wanted menAfter years as one of US authorities’ most wanted men, the Mexican drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero was brought into a New York courtroom on Friday to answer charges that include orchestrating the 1985 killing of a US federal agent.Caro Quintero pleaded not guilty to running a continuing criminal enterprise. Separately, so did Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, the leader of another cartel. Carrillo is accused of arranging kidnappings and killings in Mexico but not accused of involvement in the death of the DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada could escape Trump's death sentence

Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada might be spared the death penalty he'd potentially face in the US, after Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said there were issues about how he was 'detained'

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2 w. ago Mexico reviewing request from cartel leader jailed in the US to be sent back

Mexico’s president says her government is reviewing a petition by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of the Sinaloa cartel who is jailed in the United States, to be returned to Mexico for trial

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3 w. ago Horror photo shows Europe's most wanted drug kingpin shot dead in Mexico

One of Europe's 'most wanted' drug kingpins has met his end in an brutal shooting – the prolific criminal once held the top spot of Europol's “most wanted fugitives list”

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