Mexico DEA intelligence sharing and criminal captures meeting, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico City): Mexico’s Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, said on Monday that he held a meeting with Terrance Cole, director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), to address the capture of criminal leaders wanted by both countries and the exchange of information and intelligence on illicit networks.
In a message posted on the social network X, García Harfuch said that during the meeting, which had been scheduled since late October, both officials reviewed information sharing on criminal organizations and pending requests for collaboration and extradition. “We agreed on the importance of strengthening investigations against the criminal networks that generate violence,” the official said.
The two officials also discussed the arrest of priority targets for both countries, arms trafficking into Mexico and drug trafficking into the United States, García Harfuch added. He said the cooperation is carried out under the principles of respect for sovereignty, shared responsibility and “cooperation without subordination.”
García Harfuch also stated that security actions on Mexican territory correspond “exclusively” to Mexican authorities. The secretary did not announce new agreements or detail specific cases of extradition or arrests resulting from the meeting, and he did not specify when or where the meeting took place.
On Monday, García Harfuch took part in a public event in the state of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico, which has been in a deep violence crisis for two years due to a dispute between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. A day earlier, the secretary announced the capture of alias R2, an alleged leader of a cell of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) wanted by the United States, in an operation that involved intelligence information from the DEA.
Between February 2025 and January 2026, the Mexican government carried out three mass transfers of people sought by Washington, with a total of 92 targets sent to that country, according to official data. The security secretary has argued that this cooperation has enabled progress in arrests, extraditions and operations against criminal networks of interest to both governments.
