Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez got a 45-year sentence and an $8 million fine for drug trafficking. He denies the charges and claims innocence.
A Sinaloa Cartel leader, who has ties to El Chapo's four sons known as Los Chapitos, was about to undergo facial surgery in a clinic in Mexico when he was arrested.
The four sons of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, collectively known as "Los Chapitos," have denied allegations that they were major drug traffickers flooding the US with fentanyl.
A former marine stationed in San Diego has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug smuggling. A former marine stationed in San Diego has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug smuggling.
Authorities in Latin America have confiscated cocaine and other illegal drugs worth $5.7 billion in an operation spanning 15 countries, according to Interpol.
A Sinaloa Cartel network involved in the operations of fentanyl "super labs" was sanctioned by U.S. Treasury Department as part of the government's effort to stop the smuggling of fentanyl and methamphetamine into the U.S.
Colombia's Gulf Clan cartel leader Dairo Antonio Usuga, also known by the alias "Otoniel," has reportedly wanted to plead guilty to the drug trafficking charges he was facing in the U.S.
More than 40 people associated with a Mexican drug cartel have been charged in a drug trafficking case known as "Las Senoritas," according to South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson.
Brazil is at risk of losing control over its Amazon rainforest region to organized crime and traffickers, who use the region to smuggle illegal drugs, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge warned.
Jose Gonzalez Valencia, alias "El Chepa," the brother-in-law of Jalisco cartel boss Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, has pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking charges in U.S. federal court.
Notorious Beltran Leyva cartel leader Edgar Valdez Villareal, also known as "La Barbie," has mysteriously vanished from the U.S. federal prison system. Here's what the Bureau of Prisons said about it.
The U.S. Treasury Department has announced sanctions on another notorious Mexican drug cartel, the Familia Michoacana cartel, accused of manufacturing so-called "rainbow fentanyl" pills allegedly aimed at children.
Aureliano Guzman Loera, alias "El Guano," brother of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, remains one of the most elusive criminals in the world as authorities in Mexico have yet to arrest him.
The wives of Chicago drug lords - the Flores twins - who cooperated against Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera did not have immunity from prosecution, a federal judge ruled.
