LOS ANGELES – Innovations in law enforcement help many arms of justice but when it comes to tracking drug smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border, native intuition may be the smartest weapon yet.

The Shadow Wolves unit, Homeland Security's only Native American specialized tracking team, is ready for a change after nearly 50 years of patrolling the Arizona desert. Bills that seek to ...

Sen. Ruben Gallego was expected Thursday to reintroduce legislation to expand the Shadow Wolves, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactical patrol group that patrols the Tohono O'odham Nation.

The Shadow Wolves, as they are called, use traditional tracking skills to monitor and capture drug smugglers traveling across the Arizona border. The unit is particularly efficient: it seized ...

The task force was started with 25 tribal members who became known as the “Shadow Wolves” because they hunt smugglers like a pack of wolves. Their extraordinary tracking skills have made them ...

A Shadow Wolves team recently spent a week in Moldova introducing local border guards to their unconventional ways. Kevin Carlos is a Native American of the Tohono O'odham Nation.

PHOENIX - The Shadow Wolves unit, Homeland Security’s only Native American specialized tracking team, is ready for a change after nearly 50 years of patrolling the Arizona desert. Bills that ...

A new federal law aims to improve recruitment and expand operations for the Shadow Wolves, the country’s only Native American tracking unit based on the Tohono O’odham Nation. The Shadow ...