Drug cartel boss Arturo Beltran Leyva and the luxurious RIPs of Mexico’s narcos. By Tracy Wilkinson. Dec. 21, 2009 2:36 PM PT . ... -- Tracy Wilkinson in Mexico City. La Plaza.

Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva’s body shown to reporters after wild shootout. Dec. 17, 2009 11:37 AM PT . ... and six members of his cartel died in the shootout Wednesday night.

Arturo Beltran Leyva, shot dead during a shootout with security forces, was one of Mexico's most wanted men, with a $2.3m reward on his head. Known as "the boss of bosses", he headed the cartel that ...

Genetic testing has confirmed that a man killed in a shootout last week with marines was drug cartel leader Arturo Beltran Leyva, the Mexican government said Sunday as a lavish but heavily guarded ...

In a dramatic two-hour gun battle, Mexican troops shot dead one of the nation's most powerful drug kingpins, Arturo Beltran Leyva. This is the biggest victory yet in President Felipe Calderon's ...

When war broke out between the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO) and the Sinaloa Cartel in 2008, it was the bloody culmination of the unraveling of the Federation, the most powerful mega-cartel yet ...

Arturo Beltran Leyva and three members of his drug cartel died in the gun battle in a gated, upscale apartment complex just south of Mexico City. Leyva was aligned with the powerful Los Zeta cartel.

Mexican authorities arrested Leyva, leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel on Oct. 1, 2014. The brother of Arturo Beltran-Levya, he is currently in custody in Mexico according to the U.S. Department ...

Mexican officials say Alvarez-Vazquez had been waging war to succeed crime boss Arturo Beltran Leyva, who was killed by Mexican marines in the city of Cuernavaca shortly before Christmas ...

Villarreal's capture is the fourth major blow delivered to drug cartels by Mexico's government in the past year. First came the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva on Dec. 16, 2009.

In 2018, a federal judge in Chicago sentenced former Mexican police Cmdr. Ivan Reyes Arzate to three years and four months behind bars for leaking sensitive information to the Beltran-Leyva cartel ...

MEXICO CITY-- Mexican drug boss Hector Manuel Beltran Leyva, once one of Mexico's most-wanted men, died Sunday after suffering a heart attack in jail.The Interior Ministry said that Beltran Leyva ...