Here’s a look at the life of Joaquín Guzmán, otherwise known as “El Chapo,” a Mexican drug lord who has repeatedly broken out of prison. He was recaptured in January 2016 and later extradited to the ...

Mexico's transfer of 29 cartel figures — including Rafael Caro Quintero and accused Zeta members — has led to jockeying by ...

Brooklyn MDC's population of high-profile prisoners keeps growing as Rafael Caro Quintero and El Viceroy join fellow drug ...

A nine-year-old girl was injured and her father shot dead after gunmen stormed the home in Sinaloa, Mexico amid an escalating ...

Foreign criminals are suspected of infiltrating the $44 billion NDIS scheme, raising concerns about taxpayers being ripped ...

The global illicit drugs trade is estimated to be worth at least half a trillion US dollars each year. Drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and ...

To curb the illicit drugs trade, law enforcement should look beyond individual drug busts and focus on capturing the illegal money that reaches so many parts of the global economy.

Leaders of "Los Chapitos," "La Mayiza" and the co-founder and current leader of the Jalisco cartel remain prime targets for ...

In Mexico's Culiacan, a city of 1 million residents, an elementary school principal starts each day checking for shootouts before deciding whether to cancel classes.

It started in September, more than a month after Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada — the Sinaloa cartel’s oldest and most astute leader — says he was kidnapped by one of the sons of former leader ...

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who is accused of heading the Sinaloa cartel alongside Guzman, currently awaits trial on drug trafficking charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy ordered both Quintero ...

Also charged in that original 2009 indictment was El Chapo’s partner, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García, whose extraordinary 50-year run of avoiding arrest ended in stunning fashion in July ...