Following his near-capture outside of Cuernavaca in May 2008, Beltran Leyva ordered the assassination of the top commander of Mexico's federal police. He has been accused of killing other ranking ...

The killing of Arturo Beltran Leyva – notorious for numerous murders and beheadings – marks one of the biggest victories in President Filipe Calderon‘s drug war. The shootout Wednesday in ...

an institution that has come under criticism recently for the June killing of 22 suspected gang members in a town south of Mexico City. According to the U.S. State Department, Beltran Leyva ...

For years, Leyva’s Beltran Leyva cartel and Guzmán’s Sinaloa ... laundering and drug trafficking to conspiracy to commit murder.

On Saturday, authorities said they had arrested a purported member of the Zetas gang allied with the Beltran Leyva cartel who confessed to killing the marine’s family. In the arrest of Carlos ...

also was sustained by murder, kidnappings, torture and other violence throughout Mexico and the United States. Leon, comparing Beltran Leyva with the likes of fellow trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo ...

The Beltran Leyva gang terrorized parts of central Mexico for years, including Morelos state to the south of Mexico City. It declined somewhat after the brothers' arrests and killing, but the U.S ...

Poveda-Ortega described his meeting with Beltrán Leyva shortly after the deed was done. “He said he had just grabbed that son-of-a-bitch García Luna, and he was going to kill him,” Poveda-Ortega said.

(CBSDFW.COM) - The Mexican Attorney General's Office announced the arrest of Beltran Leyva cartel member José Rodolfo Villareal-Hernandez, aka El Gato, for the 2013 killing of Juan Jesus Guerrero ...