Mexican authorities confiscate 15 big cats in cartel-controlled region.

Mexican authorities seized a large collection of exotic animals, including 10 tigers, 5 lions, and other species, in a town dominated by a cartel. The animals were found in pens, stalls, and cages on a property in La Barca, Jalisco, which has been the scene of mass graves and cartel executions in the past. It is not clear why the animals were being kept, but they were seized and presumed to have been held illegally. The seizure came just a week after U.S. prosecutors revealed that a boss of the Sinaloa cartel fed his enemies, alive and dead, to tigers he kept.