The Knights Templar have been blamed for murders, extortion, drug trafficking and attacks on police. Analysts say the propaganda is part of an effort to transform a drug cartel into a social ...

Mexican authorities have detained Servando Gomez, leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel, federal police told CNN En Español on Friday.

Mexican authorities said on Sunday that fingerprint tests had confirmed “100 percent” that the leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel, who reportedly had been killed in 2010, had died in an ...

Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, one of the most-wanted drug lords and who once terrorized western Michoacan state, was captured early Friday by federal police, according to a Mexican official.

Mexican authorities say they have detained Servando Gomez, the leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel and one of Mexico's most-wanted men. NPR's Carrie Kahn filed this report for our Newscast ...

Gomez, the most wanted drug lord still at large in Mexico, was the enigmatic yet outspoken leader of the Knights Templar, a drug-trafficking organization based in the state of Michoacan.

Gomez became the front man of the Knights Templar after a split within drug cartel La Familia Michoacana, a pseudo-religious gang in which he was also a leading figure.

Vigilantes are prepared to fight against the Knights Templar drug cartel at a barricade on the edge of Apatzingán, Mexico, on Jan. 17, 2014. Photo courtesy Ioan Grillo ...

When vigilante militiamen stormed this farming town in western Mexico this month, a killer for the Knights Templar drug cartel pushed out of a house with a bazooka. But with training from ex ...

Another Mexican cartel leader is behind bars. Police arrested Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, a leader in the Knights Templar cartel. The cartel trafficked methamphetamine in the United States and once ...

The Knights Templar, a cult-like cartel is one of Mexico's biggest traffickers of crystal meth to American users and their drug profits finance an army of 1,200 gunmen, according to a report by ...