USA: Police have charged a man with trespassing, public drunkenness, and indecent exposure after he was caught on a neighbour’s Pennsylvania farm in the nude, drinking beer among pigs.

Hector Beltran Leyva, the purported head of a feared drug gang allegedly run by his family, became the fourth brother to fall when soldiers grabbed him while dining at a seafood restaurant in Mexico.

Anabel Hernandez’s book exposed Mexico’s bloody narco war, the corrupt state and its cartel bosses. David Kernek meets the mother who took on the drugs lords

A drug kingpin in Mexico is being named as Chicago’s public enemy No 1 — a label first given to gangster Al Capone and one that hasn’t been used since the 1930s.

A man believed to be the leader of the Gulf drug cartel, which controls some of the most valuable and violently contested smuggling routes along the US border, was arrested by Mexican marines and paraded before the public.

A man believed to be the leader of the Gulf drug cartel, which controls some of the most valuable and violently contested smuggling routes along the US border, has been arrested by Mexican marines, the navy said.

Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found dumped on a northern Mexico highway in what appeared to be the latest carnage in the escalating war between Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels.

US agents helped make Joaquin Guzman the most powerful drug lord in the world. Aram Roston reports

The image of the beach resort of Acapulco has taken a new hit from Mexico’s drug violence, with 27 people killed in less than a day, including 14 men whose bodies were found with their heads chopped off at a shopping centre.

US authorities have seized a huge haul of marijuana after the discovery of a cross-border tunnel equipped with a railway cart.

A judge has ordered a US-born suspected drug lord known as “La Barbie” to be held for 40 days pending an investigation into organised crime, Mexican authorities said today.

SOLDIERS killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico’s most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organised crime in 2006.

One of the top three leaders of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel died in a gunfight with soldiers, ending the long run of a mysterious capo considered a founder of the country’s massive methamphetamine trade.

MEXICO opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the three-year-old battle against drug trafficking – 69 murders in one day.

Mexico’s newly sworn-in president sent more than 6,500 soldiers, sailors and federal police to violence-plagued Michoacan state to crack down on drug turf wars that have left hundreds dead in a wave of execution-style killings and beheadings.

For weeks, no one came forward to apply for the Nuevo Laredo police chief job in Mexico because many saw it as a death sentence.