Mexican troops acting on information from U.S. officials took out drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva in an assault that provided a rare victory for President Felipe Calderon but left a power vacuum ...

Mexican authorities have said Beltran Leyva, 49, assumed leadership of the family's cartel after his brother Arturo was killed ... off as a businessman selling art and real estate, Zeron said.

Arturo Beltran Leyva was among those killed Wednesday in a two-hour firefight in Cuernavaca, as town south of Mexico City. He led a gang that is believed to be responsible for tons of cocaine ...

In addition, the succession battle since the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva in December has been taxing and left the group exposed. Fighting between rival wings has left scores of gang members dead ...

Héctor Beltrán Leyva, the last of the brothers to head the cartel, was arrested in October 2014. He had been posing as an art dealer ... cartel after his brother Arturo was killed in a shootout ...

The officers then identified the informant and handed his photo to an irate Arturo Beltran-Leyva. Within days, the informant was kidnapped and murdered, authorities say. The details of the 2008 ...

In 2009, Mexican marines killed brother Arturo Beltran Leyva and later arrested Carlos Beltran Leyva. In 2010, the remnants of the Beltran Leyva organization were reputedly taken over by ...

The gory photograph of Arturo Beltran Leyva, one of Mexico’s most wanted kingpins, was among those widely published here during the last few days following his death in a shootout Wednesday with ...

On Dec. 16, his brother Arturo, reputed chief of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, was killed in a shootout in Cuernavaca. Mexican officials in the past have described Carlos Beltrán Leyva as a key ...

CULIACAN, Mexico — 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 ...

The Beltran Leyva cartel has suffered several recent setbacks since marines in December killed the leader of the gang, Arturo Beltran Leyva, and Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez was captured late last month.