Reynosa Cartel

The Reynosa Cartel is one of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels. It is led by Paloma Reynosa who took over command when her husband died. She is the daughter of Pedro Hernandez. One of the cartel's most notable members was Pedro Hernandez, the man who murdered Shannon Gibbs and her daughter Kelly.

History

In 1991, drug dealer Pedro Hernandez murdered a Marine for some unknown reasons. Shannon Gibbs witnessed the murder and went to NIS agent Mike Franks to inform him of the killer's identity. Hernandez went after her and made her car crash, killing her and her daughter Kelly, as well as the NIS agent who was driving the car. Gunnery Sergeant Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the husband and father of Shannon & Kelly, respectively, returned from Iraq badly wounded to find his family dead. Hernandez fled to Mexico to avoid being caught. Despite NIS Special Agent Mike Franks' attempts, the Federales refused to extradite him back to the US. Special Agent Franks allowed a vengeful Gibbs to discover Hernandez's location. He then tracked him down to Mexico and killed him with his M40A1 sniper rifle as Hernandez was driving home in his pickup truck.

By 2010, the cartel had become increasingly powerful and the new head was Paloma Reynosa, wife of the deceased head of the cartel. In the episode Mother's Day, it was revealed that Navy Captain Joseph Norton had made $10 million by selling intelligence about US anti-drug operations in Mexico. Norton was killed in the US by Joann Fielding, Shannon Gibbs's mother, who wanted revenge against the cartel for her daughter and granddaughter's deaths. In the episode Borderland, the Mexican government began working on a project for an international task force with the Americans to strike against the cartels, notably the Reynosa drug cartel. Mexican Justice Department official Alejandro Rivera was tasked with setting up the task force and asked Abby Scuito, NCIS's forensic scientist, to train a class of task force officials in Mexico. For their forensic training, Rivera assigned them the cold case on Hernandez's death and, after much digging, she discovered that Gibbs had killed Hernandez. They concluded that someone was trying to discover who was behind this reopening of the case. It was subsequently revealed that Alejandro Rivera was Paloma Reynosa's brother and the son of Pedro Hernandez. It was Paloma Reynosa and Alejandro Rivera who orchestrated the reopening of the case after learning of Colonel Merton Bell's vendetta against Agent Gibbs. Reynosa secured the services of Jason Paul Dean, who killed NCIS Special Agent Lara Macy and Colonel Bell, along with several of his associates. Dean also maimed Mike Franks and captured Agent Gibbs. However, Jason Paul Dean was later tracked down and killed in a shootout with NCIS Special Agents Anthony DiNozzo, Timothy McGee, and Ziva David. Following the shootout, NCIS Director Leon Vance ordered DiNozzo to Mexico to surreptitiously place Alejandro Rivera under surveillance and report his movements. Special Agent DiNozzo was intercepted by Franks, whose intent was Rivera's elimination. Rivera, aware of DiNozzo and Franks, attempted to ambush and kill them both. DiNozzo escaped unharmed but Franks was seriously injured and required several months of recovery.

On May 25th, on the same year, Paloma Reynosa had traveled to Stillwater to kill Gibbs` father, Jackson Gibbs, where she confronted him, starting a short gun fight between the two. Four months later, Alejandro Rivera, believing his sister to be dead, opened fire on a safe house that He believed Gibbs, Jackson, and Mike Franks to be housed inside.

However, after seeing that Gibbs, his father, and Franks, were not inside the safe house, Alejandro was shown inside only to see a dying Paloma on the floor. Within a few minutes, Paloma Reynosa was dead, and Alejandro was placed under arrest for several murders.

It is currently unknown what became of the Cartel with their leader dead, Though it is likely that they have either fallen apart or have gained a new leader.