Border / Cartel Chronicles

The Texas blizzard “Goliath” may have claimed more than 30,000 animals this week in Texas.

A Texas judge has found probable cause to hold a Muslim man who is charged with setting the Christmas Day arson fire of his own mosque. He will be held over the weekend pending a second bond hearing set for Monday.

Despite the inconvenient fact that a devout Muslim has been arrested for a Christmas Day arson that devastated a mosque in Houston Texas, the left-wing propagandists at Salon have not bothered to update a wildly misleading headline that blames the

As allegations of human rights abuses reportedly committed by police and military forces have persisted in Mexico, the U.S. has started to withhold aid payments. For many years, the U.S. has been providing security aid to Mexico, much of it through the Mérida Initiative as a way to counter the efforts of violent drug cartels.

The Supreme Court of Texas has issued new rules and forms governing minors seeking abortions. The action was taken in connection with pro-life legislation passed during the 2015 Texas legislative session.

Using surveillance video from other area businesses to identify the arsonist, Gary Nathaniel Moore, 37, was arrested and charged with starting the Christmas Day fire that devastated a Houston, Texas mosque. Moore is a devout Muslim who attended this same

Terror continues to take hold of this border city as the number of gruesome beheadings by the Los Zetas drug cartel continues to grow. Just days after Los Zetas had beheaded three informants and made a gory show of spreading their heads around the city, they have done it again.

El terror continúa apoderándose de esta ciudad fronteriza mientras que el número de terribles decapitaciones por Los Zetas Cártel sigue creciendo. Apenas unos días después de que Los Zetas habían decapitado a tres informantes e hicieron un sangriento espectáculo con el esparcimiento de las cabeza alrededor de la ciudad, lo hicieron por cuarta vez.

Texas and U.S. officials released details of the capture of “Affluenza” teen Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya, 48, who will be charged with allegedly “hindering” the apprehension of her fugitive son.

A Mexican fisherman is accused of ramming a U.S. Coast Guard boat in an effort to elude capture and flee back to Mexico. The move resulted in one Coast Guard member being injured in the crash after the Mexican boat struck him.

Recent drug seizures and indictments indicate that Miami is back on the map as a trafficking hub for cocaine passing through Caribbean waters. After the fall of the Cali and Medellín drug cartels in Colombia, both the Florida Straits and the streets of south Florida quieted down dramatically.

Attorney’s representing a Honduran woman, her daughter and another underage girl are suing the U.S. government after a U.S. Border Patrol Agent raped them, tortured them and then left them for dead. Rather than be captured, the agent ended up killing himself.

Two Texas homeowners shot and wounded a man attempting to break into their Pasadena home. The man is recovering from his wounds in an area hospital.

Texas and the 25 other states challenging President Obama’s executive amnesty have filed a response to the Obama administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court of a lower court’s ruling blocking the programs.

Texas cops immediately went to work to help law enforcement officers whose homes or property were devastated by the deadly storms and tornadoes that hit northeast Texas. What was left in the devastation was in many cases taken by looters.

A major gunfight occurred on December 26 between elements of the Mexican navy and drug traffickers in Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s hometown of Badiraguato, Sinaloa state. Some reports indicate military aircraft sustained minor damage, but two cartel attackers were killed and firearms, ammunition, and four and a half tons of marijuana were seized.

Chick-fil-A made an exception and opened its doors on Sunday to allow volunteers to work to help victims of the deadly tornadoes in Texas.

To read local and national news, one could draw a conclusion that Texan’s are more concerned about the coming open carry law that they are about tornadoes, floods and blizzards. Perhaps the reality is it is the media that is more concerned about the change in Texas gun laws.

The Department of Homeland Security reports a 101 percent increase of illegal immigrant minors crossing into the U.S. through the Texas border.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The criminal organization known as the Gulf Cartel continues to generate terror in this border city, however, in response to all of the attention it has created, they are trying to distance themselves from their recent waves of kidnappings and murders.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — As authorities continue to deal with a sudden spike in violence that has resulted in various executions and most recently the beheading of three informants at the hands of Los Zetas cartel members, one failed daytime execution continues to spike interests of investigators.

The young man known as the “affluenza” teen, Ethan Couch, has been detained in Mexico along with his mother.

A failed home invasion turned into a drug shootout near the border city of Mission, Texas, and left two gunmen dead as drug traffickers tried to steal a load of narcotics from a house — but the owners of the drugs fought back.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster for Texas counties affected by severe weather.

It’s no secret that Mexico’s largest drug cartel has a strong partnership with Colombia’s largest narcoterrorist group. However, recent statements made by a former Colombian president are shedding light on the multibillion dollar value of that relationship.

A group claiming to be pro-Islamic State allegedly hacked into a Texas facial rejuvenation boutique’s website last week. The hack temporarily shut down the business’ online presence and posted the image of the Islamic State flag along with a message.

In an attempt to prevent the chaos of the immigrant border surge that occurred in the summer of 2014, Department of Homeland Security officials are securing various locations to temporarily house Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and family units from Central America. As a result of that effort, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has directed Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico to house up to 400 children starting in January.

Texas’ homegrown grocery chain, H-E-B, announced it will forbid the open carry of firearms in their 316 stores when the law changes later this week. On Friday, Texas law will change to allow holders of a Concealed Handgun License to openly carry handguns that are secured by belt or shoulder holsters.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Autoridades de este estado fronterizo continúan investigando una serie de ejecuciones que recientemente conmocionaron a la población.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — As another year comes to a close in Mexico, it has been filled with drug violence, controversy and crime. Rather than a decrease in drug crime, the country has begun to see escalating violence in places previously untouched. The sentiment expressed by many in this country is that widespread corruption is one of the main factors that continues to fuel raging violence.

At least eleven are dead after tornadoes hit Texas near Dallas. The deadly storms left massive destruction in their wake and officials are still accessing the damage and death toll. Thousands are without power.

The federal government filed a second superseding indictment against Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, a.k.a. Decarus Thomas, the Arizona “third man” connected with May’s foiled Garland, Texas, terrorist attack, alleging a direct link between Kareem and the Islamic State.

Winter Storm Goliath is already being called an historic blizzard as it begins its march into West Texas. Residents are bracing for the storm which is already dumping massive snowfalls in New Mexico.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border state continue to look into a series of executions that recently shook this community. The gruesome murders remain unsolved. Piedras Negras sits immediately south of the Texas border city of Eagle Pass.

“Jesus Welcomes You To Hawkins,” reads a church’s sign in the city of Hawkins, Texas. But some atheists don’t appreciate the welcome, so the city is suing the church in order to fend off a lawsuit from the atheists.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Autoridades estatales en esta ciudad fronteriza continúan investigando el tenebroso hallazgo de tres cuerpos los cuales fueron decapitados y abandonados por los Zetas en lugares públicos, mientras que todas las cabezas fueron encontradas hasta horas después.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border state continue to look into the gory discovery of three decapitated bodies that the Los Zetas cartel dumped in public places. The heads were found in separate locations immediately south of the U.S.-Mexico border below the Del Rio Sector.