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In 2024, cryptocurrency scams were responsible for receiving at least $9.9 billion on-chain, a figure that is expected to rise as we continue to identify more illicit addresses linked to fraud and scams in the upcoming months.

He received a seven-year prison sentence in 2020 but did not serve a single day.

Footage released by police in the Mexican state of Tabasco show the moment sledgehammer-wielding officers attempt to smash through the walls of a teen’s concrete tomb.

The son-in-law of a Mexican drug lord pleaded guilty this week to a scheme that used violence and threats to fix prices and control the transnational used-car market at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Ecuadoran police, raiding a drug den, cautiously inspect an altar to Santa Muerte—a Mexican "death saint" embraced by local gangs as their talisman—while wearing sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil.

Mexican drug cartels are readying terrifying plans to strike back at US Border Patrol agents as President Donald Trump ramps up his crackdown on immigration.

President Donald Trump has paused tariffs on Mexico and Canada after each country agreed to send 10,000 troops to the border to stop migrants and drugs entering the US.

Tariffs on coal, LNG, crude oil and other goods announced after US imposes levy on imports

A series of recent attacks using improvised explosive devices in Mexico points to a generalization of warfare tactics among criminal groups.

Donald Trump says the UK is "out of line" but believes a deal is possible after warning the EU about impending tariffs.

President Donald Trump has announced he will hit Mexico, Canada and China with tariffs starting tomorrow.

When Mario received the news in mid-May 2023, he promptly suspended his operations.

On September 21, 2021, Javier Algredo Vázquez was on his way to a US law enforcement office to reclaim chemical substances authorities had seized from him days earlier. In some respects, his trip that day was a remarkable act of hubris. But in other respects, it could be seen as business as usual.

The year 2024 included some stark reminders that drug trafficking money can reach the highest levels of politics. From Honduras to Mexico to Colombia, allegations of narco-political contributions shook the foundations of power and disrupted international relations.

The abduction of a Mexican community activist who campaigned against an iron ore mine owned by New York-listed Ternium has shone a light on how local cartels benefit from the presence of mining companies in the region.

Organized crime, systemic corruption, and a culture of machismo are fueling a devastating crisis for women and girls in Mexico, where only a tiny minority of human trafficking cases are investigated by authorities.

A former prosecutor and local police official was arrested Tuesday in connection with the grisly decapitation of a mayor on Oct. 6.

A British beautician facing decades behind bars after being accused of smuggling cocaine into the US from Mexico has insisted she believed she was only carrying bags of cash across the border.

Among the many horrifying videos posted online amid Mexico’s drug cartel violence, few have been as profoundly shocking as that of a 14-year-old boy kidnapped in late October along with about a dozen family members in the country’s south.

The Mexican Navy said Tuesday it has seized 3.6 tons (about 8,000 pounds) of cocaine aboard a "narco sub" off the Pacific coast which was spotted earlier this week about 153 miles off the resort of Acapulco.

President-elect refuses to invite Spanish king to her inauguration after lack of apology for crimes of conquest

Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico’s western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said on Friday, with gruesome violence showing no signs of abating.

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a prominent leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, pleaded not guilty on Friday to U.S. charges of drug trafficking. The case accuses him of orchestrating murder plots and ordering acts of torture as part of his cartel’s operations.

The United States has released Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former Gulf Cartel leader who created the Zetas and ushered in the hyper-violent organized crime wars that have marked Mexico since the turn of the century.