In its terse statement, the Public Safety Department said federal police found Beltran Leyva on Wednesday carrying two guns, ammunition and a false driver’s license identifying him as Carlos ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police said Wednesday they have captured a man identified as the second highest-ranking figure in the once-powerful Beltran Leyva drug ... two guns and several ...

The Beltran Leyva organization is one of eight major Mexican drug cartels. The DEA says that the Beltran Leyva cartel has cells in several U.S. cities, including El Paso. The leader of a Mexican ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --Mexico's Secretariat of the Navy said federal security forces killed Beltrán-Leyva cartel regional leader Juan Francisco Patrón and seven others during a shootout. Patrón ...

A DEA official described Alfredo Beltran Leyva as a "Goliath" among Mexican drug traffickers. Federal judge ordered Beltran Leyva to forfeit $529,200,000. A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader ...

But the story of Hector is not one of violent conquests with big guns and narcocorridos. It is that of low key meetings in fancy restaurants with insiders such as German Goyeneche, the man captured ...

WASHINGTON — Alfredo Beltran Leyva, the former leader of the violent Mexican drug-trafficking cartel that for roughly three decades moved tons of cocaine and methamphetamine into the United ...

The Mexican government claimed a major victory in the war against drug cartels: kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed Thursday ... helicopters with machine guns and even rocket-propelled grenades.

Valdez-Villareal, 49, is known by his underworld moniker “La Barbie,” and headed up the Los Negros, an enforcement group of the Beltran Leyva cartel — one of Mexico’s most ruthless ...

The Beltrán Leyva Cartel, once one of Mexico's biggest and most feared criminal organizations, is likely scrambling after its ...

The criminal indictment against members of the Beltrán Leyva organization, which prosecutors described as a violent faction of the Sinaloa cartel responsible for one of the largest fentanyl ...