Sentence examples for cartel based in from inspiring English sources

They are accused of being senior members of the Arellano Félix cartel, based in Tijuana, where their arrests took place.

The two are Gino Brunetti, who American authorities say was a key cocaine supplier to the Arellano Félix cartel, based in Tijuana, and a second man, Rafael Antonio Parada Ortíz, said to be an associate of Mr. Brunetti.

Intelligence officials said it was highly likely that he was killed in retribution for the arrest on Jan . 21of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, one of the leaders of a cartel based in Sinaloa State.

Last year, the Zetas' territory in Veracruz came under assault from the New Generation, a cartel based in the western state of Jalisco and allied with the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which is led by kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzmanan.

On Sunday, the office put out a statement saying that it believed that Los Aztecas, a violent street gang working for La Línea, the operations arm of the drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, was responsible for the shootings.

The war began in Juárez around 2008, when the cartel based in Sinaloa, the marijuana- and opium-growing areas close to the Pacific Coast, moved in on the local organization, which controlled valuable smuggling routes.

The Sinaloa-born traffickers went on to head cartels based in several other parts of the country, including Guadalajara, Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana.

The authorities said it was unclear who had lofted the grenades into the crowd of revelers, but suspicion immediately fell on the drug cartels based in the region that have been singled out by President Felipe Calderón's government.

To his detractors, Mr. Fernández, 59, appears to have too many questionable ties to the Beltrán Leyva drug organization, one of the country's most powerful cartels, based in Sinaloa State.

Operation Fast and Furious was an investigation by the A.T.F.'s Phoenix office into a suspected network of "straw" gun buyers who were buying weapons, including a variant of the AK-47 assault rifle, from weapons dealers in the United States, where they may be legally purchased, for use by drug cartels based in Mexico, where it is illegal to sell such guns.

Assume the following hypothetical situation for the purposes of this discussion: One of the violent drug cartels based in Mexico takes over the City of Tijuana.