Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexico kills two, nabs 22 in bust of Sinaloa cartel smuggling ring

Twenty-two members of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel have been arrested and two were killed in a police raid near the U.S.-Mexico border where authorities seized assault-type weapons, according to U.S. and Mexican officials.

Two were killed on Friday after they opened fire on Mexican federal police as they surrounded a building in the desert outside a small Mexican town where an armed group was running a drug and migrant smuggling operation, Mexico's federal police said in a statement on Sunday.

The secretive operation carried out by U.S. and Mexican authorities dealt a . . .

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