A “NARCO SAINT” revered by Mexican drug traffickers has become a hot seller in city botanicas, sharing shelf space with the Virgin of Guadalupe and St. Michael the Archangel. Shop owners in Brooklyn ...

In the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa in northern Mexico, drug traffickers flock to a small unofficial church, paying homage for their success in the criminal underworld. For Mexico's drug traffickers, ...

A nonprofit organization that works with at-risk youth projected the wrong kind of image at the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival when it was discovered that its chalk drawing depicted the ...

Two years ago I wrote a feature about the patron saint of narcotics, Jesus Malverde, and how cops in East Portland were treating Malverde's presence in homes as a sign of possible drug activity. At ...

Statues of Jesús Malverde are selling like hotcakes in East Portland—as well as aerosols, trading cards, and candles emblazoned with his picture. Dressed in his distinctive white suit, with a ...

In Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, long a hot-bed of drug cultivation and the drug trade, for decades narco-traffickers have joined common Mexicans in worshipping ...

How weak is the evidence tying slain Iraq war veteran Jose Guerena to the drug ring and/or home invasion gang whose existence has been asserted (though not alleged – no arrests have been made) by the ...

A couple's convictions for distributing $20,000 worth of methamphetamine have been reversed in part because a federal prosecutor cited their belief in "Jesús Malverde" — known as the patron saint of ...

El Chapo’s team of high-paid lawyers are praying they can get the notorious accused drug lord acquitted — and have turned to Mexico’s narco saint Jesus Malverde for help. A 6-inch statuette of the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The form that will be filled out by prospective jurors in El Chapo's upcoming federal trial includes a question about Mexico's version of Robin Hood. "Are you familiar with Jesus ...

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