This newspaper received a warning this week from a reliable Chapala area resident who prefers to remain anonymous. It’s important information that may help residents and visitors from finding themselves in the same unpleasant situation.

Gilberto Abrego Barragán, 26, and Luis Daniel Romero Ríos, 21, are behind bars facing charges of armed robbery and intentional homicide after confessing to their involvement in a violent home invasion that led to the death of elderly Chapala resident Raymond Margolis.

To keep sexual services out of esteticas masculina (men’s grooming salons), Guadalajara city councilors have turned over their revision from city license inspectors to police officers. According to some reports from sex workers at the salons, inspectors were warning them to get rid of any evidence of a sexual nature before official revisions.

There’s another good reason not to talk on your cell phone while driving – apart from the fact that it’s dangerous and against the law.

With 32 votes in favor and one abstention, the Jalisco legislature Thursday approved reforms to the State Penal Code that could see people who intentionally kill animals or subject them to intense cruelty sent to prison for up to three years.

Police have detained two former senior employees of a fraudulent Guadalajara-based investment firm that scammed more than 150 people out of 130 million pesos.

Two expertly controlled detonations have flattened a building in Guadalajara that many people viewed as nothing more than a monument to tyranny and gangsterism.  

After just six weeks on the job as the chief officer of the Lake Chapala area division of Jalisco’s Secretaría de Movilidad (SeMov), Pedro García Aguilar is making good on his promise to reach out to the expatriate community.

The federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR) in coordination with the Mexican Navy dismantled what the Banco de Mexico says may be Mexico’s largest forgery operation Wednesday.

In what has been described by one animal activist as “a barbarous act of extreme cruelty,” a Guadalajara man last weekend set fire to eight puppies, killing them all.

Police have detained a man who while posing as a priest offered his services to “bless” business premises and even handle divorces.

A first step towards resolving persistent traffic and noise problems that plague the community was achieved through an amicable dialogue with local officials during a June 3 meeting convened by the Lakeside Community Council.

The former Jalisco tourism secretary, murdered in March of last year, laundered money for the Caballeros Templarios drug cartel, one of his alleged killers has told authorities.

The Jalisco Congress is prepared to modify the state penal code to make the intentional killing of animals a criminal offense.

The U.S. Treasury Department has designated a restaurant in the Jardines Universidad neighborhood of Zapopan as a business used to launder money for one of the leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel.