Doc Series About Agents Taking Out Mexico’s ‘Cowboy Cartel’ Trailer
by Alex Billington
July 23, 2024
Source: YouTube
“It was a chance to dismantle the Zetas in away that has never been done before.” Apple has revealed an official trailer for Cowboy Cartel, a true crime documentary series streaming in August on the Apple TV+ platform. This time it’s an inside look at taking down an infamous Mexican drug cartel, from the perspective of the FBI agents and law enforcement involvement in stopping them. “Money. Power. Horses. Watch the incredible true story of one of Mexico’s most dangerous cartels, and the agents risking everything to take them down.” The series follows a rookie FBI agent, Scott Lawson, uncovering a multimillion-dollar money laundering scheme orchestrated by Mexico’s ruthless Los Zetas cartel through the American Quarter Horse racing industry. He risks his life to take down the culprits: Mexico’s deadliest cartel. Featuring interviews with Lawson, IRS agents, and many others, plus author Joe Tone, who wrote a book called “Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream” about the true story of how it all happened. This looks riveting.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Apple TV’s doc series Cowboy Cartel, direct from YouTube:
Cowboy Cartel is the unbelievable true story of unlikely hero Scott Lawson, a rookie FBI agent from rural Tennessee, whose investigation took down the Treviño brothers, the leaders of Los Zetas, one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico. While the Treviños terrorized thousands in their pursuit of power, money and influence, Lawson risked his life on a hunch: tracking their brother’s racehorse transactions in the United States, infiltrating the deadly cartel and uncovering their international money laundering. Cowboy Cartel features interviews with FBI agent Scott Lawson, who broke the case; IRS agent Steve Pennington; Irving police officers Steve Junker, Brian Schutt and Kim Williams; the Assistant United States Attorney Doug Gardner; journalist Ginger Thompson; and author Joe Tone. Cowboy Cartel is a doc series directed by filmmakers Dan Johnstone (producer of JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald, American Cartel, Detective Diaries, Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed) and Castor Fernandez (director of Dark Horses). Executive produced by Steve Michaels, Jodi Flynn, Dan Johnstone, Castor Fernandez, Eric Newman. Apple will debut the Cowboy Cartel series streaming on Apple TV+ starting on August 2nd, 2024 this summer. Interested?