Apple TV+ has set the global premiere date for the new true-crime docuseries Cowboy Cartel. Check out the trailer.
Drugs? Check. Violence? Check. Money? Check. Horses? Ch – What?
Yes, horses. Cowboy Cartel is the new documentary series that tells the extraordinary true story of the rookie FBI agent who cracked the case of one of Mexico’s most ruthless cartels and the multimillion-dollar money laundering operation they ran through the heart of the American Quarter Horse racing industry.
That rookie is Scott Lawson, an FBI agent from rural Tennessee, who became an unlikely hero when his 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 operations.
The four-part docuseries features first-time interviews with FBI agent Lawson, who broke the case; 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; and Joe Tone, the author of Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream, the nonfiction book that inspired the series.
Cowboy Cartel premieres globally on Friday, August 2, exclusively on Apple TV+.
The series is produced for Apple TV+ by Breaklight Pictures, with executive producers Dan Johnstone (Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed, American Cartel), Castor Fernandez (The All-American Cuban Comet, Brothers in Exile), Eric Newman (Narcos, Griselda), Steve Michaels (American Cartel), and Jodi Flynn (American Cartel). Johnstone and Fernandez direct the series. Tone serves as consulting producer.
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Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream by Joe Tone
