The cartel's importance diminished after the arrest of one of the Beltran Leyva brothers and the death of another in a shootout with Mexican marines in 2009. Federal police captured Villa Sanchez ...

Founded by the four Beltran Leyva brothers – Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo and Hector – the organization was once aligned with Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel but later switched allegiance to Los Zetas.

The split is believed to have fueled much of the bloodshed of recent years. One of the brothers, Alfredo Beltran Leyva, was arrested in January 2008. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says ...

Héctor Beltrán “El H” Leyva, one of four brothers to helm the Beltran Leyva cartel, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack at a Mexican maximum-security federal prison. Leyva, who had been ...

Two hundred Mexican Navy marines stormed an upscale apartment complex and killed a reputed drug cartel chief in a two-hour gunbattle, one of the biggest victories yet in President Felipe Calderon ...

Beltran Leyva and his brothers ran the Beltran Leyva cartel that smuggled tons of cocaine and methamphetamine as part of a drug organization stretching from South America to cells in a dozen U ...

Beltran Leyva pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges to smuggle tons of cocaine and methamphetamine as part of a violent organization run by him and his brothers stretching from drug suppliers in ...

The Public Safety office said in a statement Saturday night that Mr. Beltrán Leyva was arrested in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa State, where he and several of his brothers were born and were ...

Beltrán Leyva, 56, was one of four brothers who led the drug cartel of the same name which was known for its deadly rivalry with the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Héctor ...