U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations agents, working with other law enforcement officials, continue to apprehend violent illegal border crossers, including members of Mexican cartels.
Earlier this month, they arrested a member of the Cartel del Golfo, a 36-year-old Mexican citizen who was in the U.S. illegally. The cartel member has a criminal record, including a felony conviction for possession of marijuana and illegal entry.
HSI also identified him as the leader of a sicario cell. Sicarios are hitmen, often involved in kidnapping, and wanted by U.S. and Mexican authorities.
The Gulf Cartel has traditionally controlled the trafficking of people and drugs in the region of Mexico south of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. In the last few years, Gulf, Zeta and CJNG cartel members have increasingly engaged in violence in Tamaulipas, battling for control over a multibillion-dollar trafficking business, The Center Square reported.
ICE’s HSI agents, working with law enforcement partners, also arrested a Tren de Aragua gang member, a 27-year-old Venezuelan citizen in the U.S. illegally. He was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and is the suspected shooter in an attempted murder investigation in San Antonio. He remains in state custody. […]
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