The first time that Gustavo carried out a hit, he got too close to the victim and the blood exploded all over him. Growing up in a slum of Medellin, Colombia, he had been doing jobs for the cocaine ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Gael Hernandez was just 18 when El Paso Police say he piled a group of Sicarios (hitmen) into his white PT Cruiser and drove them to an East El Paso bar. Court documents ...

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A Mexican cartel leader has been sentenced to U.S. federal prison for a murder-for-hire scheme in which prosecutors say he brought sicarios, or hit men, across the ...

ZAPATA COUNTY — Hitmen from Mexico coming into the U.S. to do their business is not something that usually happens.Fox San Antonio Investigative Reporter Yami Virgin investigates why the phenomenon is ...

While the word “sicario” is relatively new to the English language, the new generation of cartel hit men had a massive impact on the drug business and murder rate in Colombia and Mexico. Sicarios were ...

CALI, Colombia — Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez served for years as the ranking sicario, or hitman, of the Medellín Cartel under Pablo Escobar, who was killed 25 years ago this month. Known by the ...

Stopping near their target, one of the criminals stays on the vehicle while the other jumps off, shoots the victim and leaps back on as they speed away. But in Mexico, the classic image of assassins ...

CALI, Colombia—Before they had a fatal falling-out, Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel was on relatively good terms with the Cali-based syndicate. In fact, the Cali crime group has been founded by former ...

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EL PASO, Texas (CBS4) — The El Paso man accused of hiring sicarios to kill his wife and her family in Ciudad Juarez was found guilty. After about three hours of deliberation, Samuel Velasco was found ...

Men suspected in drug-related killings at restaurant, motel and store parking lot in Juárez. Suspects allegedly gunned down ex-mayor of Villa Ahumada in Juárez last year Drug-related killings at a ...