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EL PASO, Texas -- Border Patrol officials are investigating an incursion by Mexican federal police into the United State on Thursday morning. U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said armed officers with Mexico's Secretaria de Seguridad Publica federal police were in the incursion, which took place in El Paso, near the Border Patrol's Ysleta station. The Mexican government, Border Patrol and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are investigating the incident. U.S. authorities responded to the incident. An ABC-7 viewer contacted the station early Thursday, saying her son, husband and friends were hunting on the Rio Grande levy on the U.S....

Link To Article Print Article Email Article Police face Mexican military, smugglers Armed standoff along U.S. border By Sara A. Carter and Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Staff Writers • Read more articles • See more video • Hear more audio • Share your views Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.

Is a U.S. Customs informant responsible for the death of two U.S. citizens? And was he allowed to get away with it because agents badly wanted to get his drug boss? According to dozens of pages of government documents, that is exactly what happened. ABC-7 uses exclusive information to outline a bloody drug tale in which murder plays a major role. El Paso Police will not yet confirm what ABC-7 has already uncovered. The cold-blooded killing outside the Whataburger at Paisano and Piedras, earlier this year, is directly related to a U.S. Customs informant working closely with the Vicente Carrlllo...

MEXICO CITY – The brother of the former leader of a powerful Mexican drug-trafficking organization was shot to death by gunmen in the northwest state of Sinaloa, the state attorney general's office confirmed. Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes, the brother of drug boss Amado Carrillo Fuentes, was killed by a team of assassins on Saturday afternoon at a movie theater complex in Culiacan, 640 miles northwest of Mexico City, Elisa Perez, press officer for the Sinaloa attorney general's office, said on Sunday. Amado, who once directed the Juarez cartel, died after a botched plastic surgery operation in July 1997. It was unclear...

JUAREZ -- Three young men beaten to death, their fingers cut off and stuffed inside their mouth and pockets. A store owner shot dead with a large-caliber rifle. A 9-year-old boy tied up and choked to death. The killings, which happened in Juárez during the weekend, are representative of a town rendered violent by the economic desperation, by a powerful drug cartel and by corruption, experts said. Every year, tens of thousands of Mexicans and others from Latin America uproot themselves from small inland farms or fishing villages to find jobs in Juárez and maybe in the United States. These...

Ex-Mexican police leader slain Man gunned down in Valley had been accused of corruption 02/06/2003 By BRENDA RODRIGUEZ and ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News McALLEN, Texas - A former high-ranking Mexican law enforcement official was fatally shot in the head Wednesday morning outside a lawyer's office in McAllen. Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni, 54, was shot once in the left side of his face shortly before 11 a.m. as he sat in his car outside the office of McAllen lawyer Robert Yzaguirre, McAllen police said. Mr. Gonzalez was once a powerful Mexican federal police commander who fled to this...