By JP Carroll Mexican cartel killers shot up the local federal police headquarters as well as a hotel known to be frequented by cops in the tourist town of Acapulco in what became a two-hour gun battle Sunday. The BBC reports that tourists and locals alike in the Las Playas area of Acapulco quickly fled to to…
By JP Carroll Two Mexican cartel smugglers were caught jumping the border wall on live TV by Mexican reporters doing a story on Arizona side, a video posted Wednesday shows. The smugglers were only in Nogales, Arisona, U.S.A. for 90 seconds when they realized they were being filmed by Azteca Noticias. Rather than keep going into the…
By JP Carroll El Chapo is so exhausted from being incarcerated in the prison he escaped from in 2015 that he is letting his lawyers plead guilty on his behalf to speed up his extradition to a US prison. Chapo’s chief lawyer, Jose Refugio Rodriguez, has said that he “will not question the veracity” of the…
Bedford London-based global banking behemoth HSBC is being sued by families of cartel violence victims for the firm’s role in laundering money on behalf of drug dealers. The bank has previously been accused of helping launder money in 2012 and settled with U.S. authorities to the tune of $1.9 billion for laundering close to $900 million of Mexican…
Concerned parent Scott Pick recently decided to take a peek at his sixth-grade son’s homework– he was floored when he saw the content. “[I] walked by and noticed in big, bold letters across the front of the assignment: ‘cocaine,’” Pick told KTRK-TV. Pick said he consistently looks over the content in his son’s homework and couldn’t believe…