Valdez-Villareal, 49, is known by his underworld moniker “La Barbie,” and headed up the Los Negros, an enforcement group of the Beltran Leyva cartel — one of Mexico’s most ruthless ...

and recruited police officers and rival cartel members as informants, according to Mexican news reports. Nicknamed La Barbie because of his fair complexion and blond hair, Valdez-Villareal was ...

Mexican authorities have expressed concern after a notorious cartel hitman seemingly disappeared from U.S. prison rolls without a trace. The drug kingpin, known as "La Barbie," was serving a ...

Experts in narco terrorism told ABC News that the 36-year-old modern day mobster is on the verge of becoming a top boss within a Mexican drug cartel, the first American ever to do so. "La Barbie ...

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a Mexican-American nicknamed "La Barbie" for his fair complexion ... that the former henchman of the Beltran-Leyva cartel no longer appears in a search of the Federal ...

An infamous cartel leader and hitman who would decapitate ... Edgar Valdez-Villareal, who had the sinister nickname La Barbie, has been removed from the federal Bureau of Prisons website and ...

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, an alleged leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel in Mexico better known by his alias "La Barbie" , was captured by Mexican authorities and will be held pending investigation.

Edgar Valdez Villareal, known as “La Barbie” and a dual Mexican and American citizen who rose to a top position in the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, plans to plead guilty to U.S. federal charges ...

In cooperating with US authorities, La Barbie reportedly passed information on corrupt Mexican officials and their sharing of sensitive intelligence to members of the Sinaloa Cartel and Beltrán Leyva ...

Three years after musician Jenni Rivera’s death, a new conspiracy is linking her fatal plane crash to drug cartel kingpin Edgar Valdez Villarreal, also known as “La Barbie,” but some experts ...

The alleged drug cartel figure known as "La Barbie" is on a hunger strike. Edgar Valdez Villarreal, 38, a Texas native awaiting trial or extradition in a Mexican prison, stopped eating Sept.