Vigilantes ride on the back of a pick-up truck while driving in a convoy to Poturo December 29, 2013. In violence-racked Michoacan, an impoverished agricultural state about 1-1/2 times the size of ...

They’ve been on the run for the past eight months, but Mexico’s feared Knights Templar drug cartel could be mounting a comeback in the western state of Michoacan, according to posts on Facebook.

Mexican police arrested a leading figure in the Knights Templar drug cartel who they say is linked to more than a dozen deaths, prosecutors in the country's troubled Michoacan state said. Pedro ...

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican army says it has captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico. Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas says Saul Solis ...

Mexican authorities say they have detained Servando Gomez, the leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel and one of Mexico's most-wanted men. NPR's Carrie Kahn filed this report for our Newscast unit: ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's federal police have caught the top hitman for the Knights Templar drug gang in the western state of Michoacan, authorities said Wednesday. Federal police allege that ...

A masked federal police officer stands guard as part of increased security at the organized-crime division of Mexico’s Attorney General Office where high profile detainees are sometimes held and shown ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico said on Monday it had captured a leader of the Knights Templar, a violent drug cartel that has created a major security problem for President Enrique Pena Nieto. The ...

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's federal police have caught the top hitman for the Knights Templar drug gang in the western state of Michoacan, authorities said Wednesday. Federal police allege that ...