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Dec 31, 2021 · As the cartels’ wealth and weaponry have grown, and Mexico’s federal government has retreated from its failed military-backed cartel crackdown of the 2000s, gangs have infiltrated remote...
- andrea.castillo@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Dec 17, 2021 · COVELO, Calif. — Mexican drug cartels are muscling in on America's burgeoning multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry, illegally growing large crops in the hills and valleys of Northern...
- Beth Warren
Jun 8, 2024 · LOS ANGELES - Nearly four dozen alleged members of a California -based drug ring linked to the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico have been charged with multiple offenses.
Jun 18, 2024 · The Justice Department today announced a 10-count superseding indictment charging Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel with conspiring with money-laundering groups linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug trafficking proceeds.
Jun 18, 2024 · Two dozen Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel were charged in a sophisticated scheme to launder more than $50 million in drug money through an underground banking system run...
Jul 11, 2021 · July 11, 2021 5 AM PT. Before his corpse was dumped in a shallow grave 50 miles north of Los Angeles, Mauricio Ismael Gonzalez-Ramirez was held prisoner at one of the hundreds of...
May 4, 2021 · A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths.
