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Authorities seize 50 homemade weapons, transfer 76 cartel members to other jails; police chief says violence not related to arrest of 'El Mayo' Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the finding of illegal weapons and the transfer of inmates to other prisons.Seven inmates at a prison in Juarez, Mexico, were injured during a fight between rival factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel on Sunday, Chihuahua state police said. The fight stemmed from “personal issues” between the gang members and is not part of an internal war over last month’s capture of Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo”...

Caravans are gone and agents taking stowaways off trains, but criminals still preying on those lacking clear path to US asylumPolice in Chihuahua, Mexico, say they have freed 1,245 migrants from criminal gangs in the past seven months. The kidnapping, extortion and violence inflicted on the foreign nationals who come to the border looking for a way into the United States is rising even though overall migrant traffic has dropped dramatically in recent months, a law enforcement official says. “We have diminished migration flows in terms of caravans and people arriving on trains. But I must point out we are...

Ciudad Juarez – An investigator with the Chihuahua state Attorney General's Office and her 5-year-old daughter were gunned down outside their house in Chihuahua city on Tuesday, Mexican officials said. Brenda Carrilla and her daughter were leaving the house when a group of gunmen traveling in at least two vehicles opened fire on them. Carrilla was killed instantly and the little girl died while being transported to a clinic, the AG's office said. One of the drug cartels that operate in Chihuahua left a message about a week ago on a street in Chihuahua city, the state capital, threatening to...

Seven gunmen wearing ski masks entered a hospital in a northern Mexican state capital Wednesday and killed a lawman who was recovering from gunshot wounds, as well as two men accompanying him, investigators said. The assailants arrived at the Clinica del Centro hospital in Chihuahua City, the capital of the U.S.-Mexico border state of the same name, just after 1 a.m. After subduing security guards and covering surveillance cameras, the group moved into the room of federal agent Victor Estrada, said Rene Medrano, a spokesman for Chihuahua state attorney general's office. Authorities have made no arrests and refused to discuss...