• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
Mexico’s Gulf Cartel Continues Sending Gunmen to Steal Trucks In Texas

Mexico’s Gulf Cartel Continues Sending Gunmen to Steal Trucks In Texas

June 17, 2025
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ May Not Be The Deficit Disaster Critics Claim — Here’s Why

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ May Not Be The Deficit Disaster Critics Claim — Here’s Why

July 3, 2025
TOM BASILE: The Real War Is With Communist China

TOM BASILE: The Real War Is With Communist China

July 2, 2025
Dems Resort To Cringe Theatrics As Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill Rolls Toward Finish Line

Dems Resort To Cringe Theatrics As Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill Rolls Toward Finish Line

July 2, 2025
Mike Johnson Touts ‘Forward Momentum’ As Megabill Vote Put On Ice

Mike Johnson Touts ‘Forward Momentum’ As Megabill Vote Put On Ice

July 2, 2025
Jetsetting Elites Can Now Make Tax-Exempt Donations Directly To Their Favorite Disruptive Eco-Activists

Jetsetting Elites Can Now Make Tax-Exempt Donations Directly To Their Favorite Disruptive Eco-Activists

July 2, 2025
CIA Has Begun Job Cuts

CIA Report Slams Investigation into Russia’s Support of Trump

July 2, 2025
Judge Orders Block on Trump Executive Order Restricting Asylum Access at Southern Border

Judge Orders Block on Trump Executive Order Restricting Asylum Access at Southern Border

July 2, 2025
Military Veteran Pardoned for J6 Gets Life Sentence for FBI Attack Plot

Military Veteran Pardoned for J6 Gets Life Sentence for FBI Attack Plot

July 2, 2025
Intel Suggests Iranian Nuclear Program Set Back ‘One To Two Years’, Pentagon Spox Says

Intel Suggests Iranian Nuclear Program Set Back ‘One To Two Years’, Pentagon Spox Says

July 2, 2025
DAVID BLACKMON: Senate Passage Of The OBBBA Involved High Drama Around IRA Subsidies

DAVID BLACKMON: Senate Passage Of The OBBBA Involved High Drama Around IRA Subsidies

July 2, 2025
Some Liberals Would Apparently Rather Protest Trump Than Celebrate America On July 4

Some Liberals Would Apparently Rather Protest Trump Than Celebrate America On July 4

July 2, 2025
Judge Rules Trump Admin Can’t Block Asylum Claims For Migrants Who Cross Southern Border

Judge Rules Trump Admin Can’t Block Asylum Claims For Migrants Who Cross Southern Border

July 2, 2025
  • Donald Trump
  • State of the Union
  • Elon Musk
  • Tariffs
  • Congress
  • Faith
  • Immigration
Thursday, July 3, 2025
  • Login
IJR
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls
No Result
View All Result
IJR
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Mexico’s Gulf Cartel Continues Sending Gunmen to Steal Trucks In Texas

by Breitbart News Foundation
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 am
in News, Wire
242 10
0
Mexico’s Gulf Cartel Continues Sending Gunmen to Steal Trucks In Texas
491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The Gulf Cartel continues to send teams of gunmen into Texas to steal four-door vehicles and smuggle them into Mexico to resupply their paramilitary wing. The ongoing crime wave leads to regular high-speed chases and, at times, vehicle carjackings at gunpoint. The Gulf Cartel is one of six cartels labelled as foreign terrorist organizations by the Trump Administration.

The most recent documented case occurred Thursday afternoon in Brownsville, Texas, where authorities were tracking a Jeep Gladiator that had been previously reported stolen. According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by Brownsville Police, authorities tried to stop the vehicle. Still, the group sped away, leading authorities on a high-speed chase that ended a few blocks away when authorities managed to box them in. The driver tried to run away, but authorities captured him and another man soon after.

The incident happened just days after Texas State Troopers arrested a 19-year-old gunman who the Gulf Cartel allegedly sent from Mexico to steal vehicles in Texas and move them to Matamoros, Tamaulipas. A sworn affidavit filed by an FBI agent in the federal case against Angel David Salas Herrera revealed that he worked for the Gulf Cartel and was part of a group that used extra key fobs and sophisticated tools to bypass the security measures used for some modern trucks like Jeep Gladiators, GMC pickups and other vehicles with similar security characteristics. Salas is a Mexican national who was in the country illegally and at the time of his arrest had a Glock handgun that he claimed he obtained while stealing another vehicle. As part of the investigation that followed, authorities recovered two other vehicles.

As Breitbart Texas reported last year, Brownsville and other cities in South Texas have been hit by car theft gangs working for the Gulf Cartel. This demand for vehicles is closely tied to a series of turf wars that the criminal organization has been waging throughout the border state of Tamaulipas with rival factions of the same cartel and with rival cartels. The Gulf Cartel has been requesting four-door vehicles with powerful engines and high clearance that they can use to move gunmen through dirt roads for their clashes.

In recent months, cartel-connected car theft gangs have favored Jeep Gladiators, as well as Chevrolet and GMC pickups. The preference has been significant enough that even law enforcement has been forced to issue warnings to locals about the trend and ask the public to use additional physical anti-theft devices.

Breitbart News Foundation has been investigating the ongoing crime wave, which goes much deeper than just small car-theft gangs. Due to the high demand for stolen vehicles and the amount of money involved in the smuggling of stolen vehicles into Mexico, members of Mexico’s National Guard have been criminally charged in the United States for their role in helping move vehicles. In March, Luis Enrique Guzman Pablo, a Mexican National Guardsman, pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to having taken various bribes to help a Gulf Cartel group smuggle stolen trucks into Mexico. Guzman would receive messages of the vehicles headed south, and he would use his position at a port of entry to move those vehicles past inspections and into Mexico.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart News Foundation. He co-founded Breitbart News Foundation’s Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.

Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart News Foundation’s Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.

The Breitbart News Foundation is an independent non-profit. All content created by it is available for licensing without charge to any legitimate publisher with a large audience and that agrees to the licensing terms. For licensing information, please contact: licensing@breitbartnewsfoundation.com

The Breitbart News Foundation is an independent non-profit. All content created by it is available for licensing without charge to any legitimate publisher with a large audience and that agrees to the licensing terms. For licensing information, please contact us.

Tags: Breitbartcartel-chronicles-borderImmigrationU.S. News
Share196Tweet123
Breitbart News Foundation

Breitbart News Foundation

Advertisements

Top Stories June 10th
Top Stories June 7th
Top Stories June 6th
Top Stories June 3rd
Top Stories May 30th
Top Stories May 29th
Top Stories May 24th
Top Stories May 23rd
Top Stories May 21st
Top Stories May 17th

Join Over 6M Subscribers

We’re organizing an online community to elevate trusted voices on all sides so that you can be fully informed.





IJR

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Trusted Voices On All Sides

  • About Us
  • GDPR Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Editorial Standards & Corrections Policy
  • Subscribe to IJR

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Top Stories June 10th Top Stories June 7th Top Stories June 6th Top Stories June 3rd Top Stories May 30th Top Stories May 29th Top Stories May 24th Top Stories May 23rd Top Stories May 21st Top Stories May 17th