Ecuadorians are heading to the polls this Sunday in a closely contested presidential runoff between incumbent President ...

Murders, gun smuggling, fuel theft, extortion and other crimes carried out by local criminal groups allied with Mexican cartels and the Albanian mafia have spiked over the last five years ...

As illegal border crossings drop to record lows under the Trump administration, U.S. attorneys in California are prosecuting ...

A flood of cocaine from Colombia and Peru through Ecuadoran ports has created a plethora of mafias with striking names and ...

A Mexican mafia leader who once reportedly offered protection to El Chapo is currently being held in the Washoe County Jail.

A Mexican Mafia member who controlled drug smuggling, narcotics sales and the extortion of prisoners inside the Los Angeles County jail system pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge that includes ...

Michael Lerma, 68, was convicted of racketeering and murder in a trial that showed how he called the shots for gangs in his hometown of Pomona and took over his wing of a federal jail in downtown Los ...

THE international cartel movement is by no means a new phenomenon. There were several such organizations in a thriving condition some years before the war, including the Franco-Belgian group of plate ...

Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland's Mafia, tracks the cartel from its beginnings as a small-time street dealing operation in 1980s Dublin to its reputation as one of the world's most feared and ...

Today, the United States has a $5 million bounty on the heads of senior cartel members, godfather Christopher 'Christy' Kinahan and his two sons Daniel and Christy Junior. The cartel is wanted for ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States Treasury sanctioned six people and seven companies Monday for alleged money laundering for factions of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, underscoring the group’s ...

FILE - This undated photo shows Carlos Lehder in Colombia. Lehder was one of the leaders of the Medellin cartel that dominated the global cocaine trade in the 1980s. (AP Photo/File) 32,903 people ...