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A Mexican drug cartel has blamed five rogue members of its gang for the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros.. The Gulf cartel’s Scorpion faction made the claims in a letter obtained ...
[a] [3] His roles in the cartel were managing death orders from Cárdenas and overseeing drug distribution from Matamoros. [5] He also coordinated cash shipments of drug proceeds from the U.S. to Mexico, [ 6 ] and verified the quality and amount of narcotics received from Guatemala to Chiapas , from where it was later sent to northern Mexico.
Los Ciclones is a faction of the Gulf Cartel, a Mexican drug cartel. This faction was created in 2015, with the Cártel del Noreste and Los Metros as its main enemies. Los Ciclones had as their area of influence the US-Mexico border crossing between Matamoros and Brownsville, Texas .
On 7 March 2023, the missing Americans were located by security forces in El Tecolote, an ejido 10 km (6.2 mi) southeast of where they had been abducted in Matamoros. [9] Woodard and Brown were dead. Williams had three gunshot wounds to his leg and McGee had no physical injuries; the two were taken to the border shortly after their discovery ...
A Mexican drug cartel has blamed five rogue members for the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros. The Gulf cartel’s Scorpion faction made the claims in a letter obtained by the ...
Jose Alberto Garcia Vilano’s whereabouts remain unknown since Mexican officials put out a reward for his capture in April 2022
The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [15] [16] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [17] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [16] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...
The Gulf cartel apologized Thursday after two Americans were killed in the daylight abductions on March 3 in which four Americans crossed the border into Matamoros, Mexico, just south of the Texas ...