WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Mexican drug cartels are increasingly active inside the United States, producing homegrown marijuana and gaining new urban footholds, officials say.
CHICAGO, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Mexican drug cartels, finding it harder to smuggle in marijuana, are growing more of their crops in the United States, officials say.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Officials say U.S. automatic weapons, ammunition and other arms are pouring across the Mexican border to drug traffickers engaged in an internal war.
SAN DIEGO, July 27 (UPI) -- U.S. officials say they found a half ton of marijuana on a Mexican fishing boat they commandeered off the coast of southern California.
EL PASO, Texas, April 4 (UPI) -- Mexican Consulate officials in El Paso, Texas, said Mexican drug cartels have been posting help-wanted ads in Juarez, Mexico, newspapers.
CAMARGO, Mexico, March 30 (UPI) -- Mexican drug cartels have conducted military-style training camps in northern Mexico, according to U.S. and Mexican authorities.
MEXICO CITY, March 29 (UPI) -- Hand grenades are being used in fighting between Mexican authorities and drug cartels on the U.S.-Mexican border, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.
LAREDO, Texas, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. authorities have confiscated a large weapons cache near the Mexican border allegedly belonging to Mexican drug cartels, El Universal reported Saturday.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, June 20 (UPI) -- Mexican officials said they have confiscated more than four tons of marijuana and other illegal substances in crackdowns on cities along the U.S. border.
SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. officials say travel is dangerous along the U.S.-Mexico border because of increased drug violence in some Mexican cities.
