A deported felon, Victor Alvarez Farfan, kept slipping back across the border, linking the Portland area and a powerful drug cartel.
Author: Beth Warren, Louisville Courier Journal
Oregon gun supplier linked to downing of military helicopter in Mexico by cartel boss ‘El Mencho’
Eight Mexican soldiers and a police officer died in the 2015 crash on a mission to arrest El Mencho, the world’s most powerful cartel boss.
Mexico captures Rafael Caro Quintero, infamous drug lord convicted in DEA agent’s 1985 murder
Rafael Caro Quintero’s role in the the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena was a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.
Where do Mexican drug cartels get their guns? Often, the United States
A Washington man tried to sneak an arsenal across the border into a Mexican cartel war zone. His arrest is part of a crackdown by Homeland Security.
New ‘trash can’ drug capsules bring deadly, hidden dangers to the streets, DEA says
Fentanyl “trash cans” often contain a mix of fentanyl with powdery adulterants loaded in small plastic vials or capsules, drug agents say.
Prison or freedom: US judge to decide fate of cartel kingpin’s daughter
La Negra, the daughter of fugitive cartel boss El Mencho, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday. Prosecutors want prison. She wants to be set free.
California drug ring linked to Ohio officer’s killing and Mexico’s infamous Sinaloa Cartel
DEA agents in Washington, D.C., have connected the fatal shooting of an Ohio detective to an L.A.-based drug network supplied by the Sinaloa Cartel.
Chinese nationals used US banks to launder millions in drug profits for Sinaloa Cartel
A Chinese money laundering ring and bribery case is linked to U.S. cities, Belize, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico’s notorious drug boss El Chapo.
DEA supervisor turned ‘pariah’ sold semi-automatic rifles to Sinaloa Cartel associates
Joseph Michael Gill, once a DEA supervisor, is now a convicted felon who blames the ATF and Homeland Security for his ‘not fair’ prosecution.
The rise and fall of a father-son drug ring linked to multiple deaths and the Sinaloa Cartel
A Sinaloa Cartel supplied drug ring is tied to multiple deaths in Michigan, Kentucky and Mississippi, a USA TODAY Network investigation finds.