Mexican cartel drones were behind the brief El Paso airspace chaos, says Trump administration official. The US military took them out.

Tech Insider : Business, Technology, Travel
A Fort Bliss Law Enforcement Activity Military Police Company Soldier engages a simulated enemy drone with a handheld counter-unmanned aircraft system during an integrated protection exercise at Fort Bliss, Texas, August 20, 2025.
A US soldier engages a simulated drone during training at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.

David Poe/Fort Bliss Public Affairs Office

How illegal sports betting actually works

Tech Insider : Sports, Business, Style

Owen Hanson is a former college athlete who ran an illegal sports betting company and later expanded into international cartel-backed money laundering and drug trafficking.

How 'Grand Theft Auto' actually works, according to a former car thief

Tech Insider

Hondo Underwood is a former car thief. He stole hundreds of cars in and around Denver between 2016 and 2017.

I trafficked $5 million worth of cocaine internationally — here's the full story of how I did it

Tech Insider

Pieter Tritton, a former cocaine smuggler, returns for a second interview with Business Insider about his experience trafficking drugs from South America to the United Kingdom.

Mexican cartels are accessing a database used by the government to monitor their victims in real time: report

Tech Insider
Mexican police, billboard of cartel

ALFREDO ESTRELLA/Getty Images

Lindsey Graham is calling for the US to unleash its 'fury and might' to destroy the Mexican drug cartels

Tech Insider : Politics
Lindsey Graham
US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham questions Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on March 23, 2022.

SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

Subscribe to Cartels