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A drug smuggling tunnel the length of six football fields was found by U.S. authorities running from Tijuana, Mexico to a warehouse in San Diego. The secret entrance was located by San Diego’s Otay Mesa border crossing and featured rail and ventilation systems, electricity, and reinforced walls, per authorities. During a Monday announcement, it was revealed that 1,762 pounds of cocaine, […]
A California man is facing decades behind bars for his alleged involvement in illegal wildlife trade. According to the Justice Department, 30-year-old Jose Manuel Perez—aka “Julio Rodriguez”—was arrested last month after he tried to smuggle dozens of reptiles from Mexico into the U.S. Federal agents say the Oxford resident was stopped at the border, and was found with […]
A 15-year-old Mexican teen died after an Uzi submachine gun she was posing with for a TikTok video went off. As reported by Vice and the local outlet Proceso, Yazmín Esmeralda, who lived in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, was visiting her grandmother’s house in Guasave with her mother and younger brother when she discovered the weapon stashed away in the bottom of […]
The FBI has apprehended a man from the agency’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, after he was on the run for 16 years. The man, Octaviano Juarez-Corro, was found in Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico after someone called in a tip, CNN reports. He became the 525th person to be added to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list […]
While studies have shown that violent video games do not directly correlate to violent behavior in the youth that plays them, a new report has found that real life Mexican cartel members were using Grand Theft Auto Online to recruit drug runners. According to Forbes, in November of last year the Customs and Border Protection officials in Arizona […]
José Antonio Yépez Ortiz—a gang leader in Mexico known as “El Marro” or “The Sledgehammer”—has been sentenced to 60 years in prison over kidnapping, according to authorities in Guanajuato. Yépez Ortiz was arrested on Aug. 2, 2020 following a police shootout. His gang—Santa Rosa de Lima—was known for stealing gasoline from government fuel ducts, per ABC News, and was […]
Gaby Castillo, an Instagram influencer and musical artist who appeared on the reality TV series Enamorándonos, is reported to have been detained by officials from the Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection in Mexico in connection with drug and fraud charges. 26-year-old Castillo, who used the stage name Briela Sanz for her music, was, per the New York […]
Mexican singer Vicente Fernández has died. He was 81 years old. Fernández, who NPR writes was seen as the “last living legend of the Mexican ranchera,” passed away on Sunday morning. While his family didn’t reveal the circumstances behind his death, he had been in the hospital since August, following a fall at his Mexico […]
A road accident in southern Mexico has left more than 50 people dead and dozens injured. According to the Associated Press, the tragedy took place Thursday in the state of Chiapas, where a freight truck carrying hundreds of migrants crashed into the base of a pedestrian bridge. Authorities say at least 55 passengers—most of whom are believed […]
A California man who told authorities he was “enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories” was charged Wednesday with taking his two children to Mexico and killing them. Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, allegedly killed his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter on Monday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a […]
