- Cowboy Cartel is a four-part docuseries about one of Mexico’s most dangerous crime syndicates.
- From the producers who brought you Narcos, Griselda, and American Cartel.
- Premiering on Apple TV+ next week (August 2nd, 2024).
From Operation Odessa to Don’t F**k With Cats, some of the greatest crime documentaries involve a high-stakes story, and the stakes arguably don’t get much higher than Apple TV+‘s Cowboy Cartel.
Cowboy Cartel follows the unbelievably true story of an “unlikely hero” in Scott Lawson — a rookie FBI agent hailing from rural Tennessee who’s tasked with investigating Los Zetas leaders the Treviño brothers. For background, the Los Zetas were founded by US-trained deserters of the Mexican special forces, and at one stage, counted itself among Mexico’s most powerful (and violent) cartels.
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As per the official description: “While the Treviños terrorised thousands in their pursuit of power, money and influence, Lawson risked his life on a hunch: tracking the brothers’ racehorse transactions in the United States, infiltrating the deadly cartel, and uncovering their international money laundering operations.”
This four-part examination features first-time interviews with Lawson himself and IRS agent Steve Pennington; Irving police officers Steve Junker, Brian Schutt, and Kim Williams; Assistant United States Attorney Doug Gardner; Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Ginger Thompson.
Joe Tone, the author of Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream (which covered this strange chapter of organised crime history), makes an on-camera appearance in addition to serving as a production consultant.
The series has been executive produced by American Cartel‘s Dan Johnstone, Steve Michaels, and Jodie Flynn, alongside Castor Fernandez (The All-American Cuban Comet, Brothers in Exile); and ex-Narcos producer Eric Newman, who had a hand in Netflix‘s other hit cartel drama series Griselda starring Sofia Vegara. Johnstone and Fernandez have also directed the series
Cowboy Cartel premieres next week on August 2nd, 2024 via Apple TV+ — check out the trailer above.
