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HENDERSON -- Drugs, guns, prostitutes and fraudulent Social Security and immigration green cards are believed to have been sold and traded by a Rusk County family with connections to a violent Mexican Cartel. A sizeable force of federal and state law enforcement raided a Rusk County family compound Wednesday morning after two years of investigations by multiple agencies into the Hernandez family's alleged illegal activities. Dallas Region FBI Spokesperson Mark White said there was a sizeable number of agents and other officers involved in the "no knock" warrant due to the multiple buildings and multiple families on the tract of...

WASHINGTON — More than 300 suspects have been arrested in a series of drug raids across the country that law enforcement officials say is the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating in the United States. The arrests are aimed at the U.S. operations of the La Familia cartel, two officials said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the results of the operation. In the latest legal assault on La Familia, a New York grand jury has indicted an alleged cartel leader, Servando Gomez-Martinez. He is linked to one of the...

HIDALGO COUNTY, TEXAS -- The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department busted a ring of men posing as fake cops Thursday. Deputies are still looking for more suspects. They arrested Eduardo Varela and Rafael Saenz. The men are accused of storming into a home north of Mercedes earlier this month and posing as FBI agents. The suspects allegedly took a 2003 BMV. Investigators said Varela and Saenz implicated five other men. "Ricardo Guzman known as 'El Borrado' may be a former Mexican police officer who also had a district job to recruit illegal immigrants to participate in these home invasions," explained Sheriff...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Authorities say they have found three human heads along a highway in northern Mexico, and the search continues for the bodies. A spokesman for the Chihuahua state Attorney General's Office says the heads were placed in three coolers beside a roadside monument known as “The Seven Little Heads” Thursday morning. With it was a banner saying, “For those who keep stealing.” Police found the heads after receiving a call around 7 a.m.

EL PASO — A body found with its severed arms crossed and placed on its chest in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was identified by authorities Wednesday as a Texas man kidnapped from his home. Sergio Saucedo, 30, was kidnapped from his Horizon City house outside El Paso last Thursday. His mutilated body was found Tuesday, said El Paso County Sheriff's spokesman Jesse Tovar. "It's apparent that the spillover has occurred," Tovar said of the drug violence plaguing Juarez and much of Mexico. Saucedo, who has a long criminal record including convictions for drug possession and money laundering, was kidnapped by three...