DOJ announces criminal charges against five United Cartels leaders with $26 million rewards offered for arrests in international drug trafficking case.

A car accident, a series of secret wiretaps, a shootout with police and a drug bust eventually led federal investigators back to cartel leaders in Mexico.

The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Mexican companies and four people it says worked with a powerful drug trafficking cartel to scam elderly Americans in a multimillion-dollar timeshare fraud.

A car crash in a small Tennessee town ultimately led to the five Mexican cartel leaders being hit with federal charges, and the DOJ offering up to $26 million for their arrests.

The Treasury Department sanctioned four people and 12 companies in Mexico linked to a "brutally violent" cartel in timeshare fraud of a Puerto Vallarta resort.

In a major development, Mexico has sent 26 high-ranking cartel members to the United States. Historic Transfer of Dangerous Criminals This move is part of a growing effort to stop powerful criminal networks from smuggling drugs across the border.

Trump is eager to breach Mexico’s sovereignty to attack cartels, officials say — just don’t call it an invasion

Ilan Katz, president of the Mexican Bar Foundation, credits President Claudia Sheinbaum for a "seismic shift" in efforts to contain drug-trafficking and says battling fentanyl is essential to Chicago.