A cable dated Dec. 17, 2009 out of Mexico City starts with this matter-of-fact summary Mexican Navy’s killing of drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva on Dec. 17, 2009 in Cuernavaca, Mexico ...

Beltran Leyva, 46, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., after pleading guilty to drug-trafficking conspiracy charges in February 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a ...

He is listed as one of the remaining leaders of the Beltran Leyva cartel, whose chieftain, Arturo Beltran Leyva, was killed Dec. 16 in a raid by marines outside Mexico City.

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

Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez-Villareal, onetime leader of Beltran Leyva cartel's enforcement group Los Negros, has gone missing from a Florida prison despite a 49-year sentence.

A former lieutenant in Mexico’s notorious Beltran-Leyva cartel has been extradited to Chicago to face narcotics conspiracy charges alleging he helped manufacture and import massive amounts of ...

He took over the leadership of the Beltrán Leyva cartel after his brother Arturo was killed in a shootout with Mexican police in 2009. Two other brothers, Alfredo and Carlos, are in jail.

Beltrán Leyva, also known as “El H,” assumed the leadership of the drug cartel after the death of his brother, Arturo, in 2009. Two other brothers, Alfredo and Carlos, are in jail.

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.

Arturo Beltran Leyva's tomb is much more high-end. He founded his own cartel after breaking away from Sinaloa. Leyva died in 2009, and was one of the richest narcos of all time. Costing $650,000 ...

Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed in a December 2009 shootout with the Mexican army, while Hector, the cartel's boss, was captured by Mexican soldiers in October 2014. (Reporting by Peter Szekely in ...

Beltran-Leyva's attorney, Eduardo Balarezo, had asked U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to impose a 25-year term, arguing that his client had accepted responsibility for his actions.