"El Chapo" lad arrested successful El Paso
The United States connected Monday imposed sanctions connected the 2 fugitive sons of incarcerated Mexican Sinaloa Cartel person Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and announced a reward connection of up to $10 cardinal each for accusation starring to the apprehension oregon condemnation of the men.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions connected Archivaldo Ivan Guzman Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar who are believed to beryllium presently located successful Mexico.
Guzman's different sons - Joaquin Guzman Lopez and Ovidio Guzman Lopez - are presently incarcerated successful the United States. In May, national prosecutors announced they would not question the decease punishment for Joaquin Guzman Lopez if he's convicted of aggregate charges successful Chicago.
Sanctions were besides imposed connected a faction of the Sinaloa cartel known arsenic the "Chapitos," oregon small Chapos, which has been identified arsenic a main exporter of fentanyl to the U.S. arsenic good arsenic a determination web of Chapitos associates and businesses based successful Mazatlan, Mexico, that allegedly prosecute successful cause trafficking, extortion and wealth laundering.
In 2023, prosecutors unsealed sweeping indictments against dozens of members of the Sinaloa cartel, including the brothers. According that indictment, the Chapitos and their cartel associates utilized corkscrews, electrocution and blistery chiles to torture their rivals while immoderate of their victims were "fed dormant oregon live to tigers."
"Los Chapitos is simply a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa Cartel astatine the forefront of fentanyl trafficking into the United States," Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said successful a statement Monday.
According to national prosecutors, El Chapo smuggled mountains of cocaine and different drugs into the United States implicit 25 years. He was convicted successful 2019 connected aggregate conspiracy counts and sentenced to beingness successful a U.S. prison.
"At the Department of the Treasury, we are executing connected President Trump's mandate to wholly destruct cause cartels and instrumentality connected convulsive leaders similar 'El Chapo's' children," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said successful a statement.
Mexico's overseas relations bureau didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.
David Saucedo, a Mexican information analyst, said that offering fiscal rewards and to support witnesses has been an important instrumentality employed by the U.S. authorities successful caller years. In immoderate cardinal cases against cartel leaders, up to 20% of the U.S. instrumentality enforcement person obtained has been done specified payouts, Saucedo said.
"People wrong the transgression enactment betray their leaders and crook into informants," Saucedo said. "It's this money, this ambition that authorities successful the United States are utilizing to interruption isolated narcotrafficking organizations successful Mexico."
It's a strategy that was employed by the Biden medication and present is being utilized nether Trump arsenic authorities effort to ace down connected Mexican cartels.
The Sinaloa Cartel, done assorted incarnations, is Mexico's oldest transgression group, dating to the 1970s. One of their astir lucrative businesses successful caller years has been the accumulation of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, blamed for tens of thousands of overdose deaths each twelvemonth successful the U.S. The Trump medication successful February labeled the Sinaloa cartel a overseas violent organizations.
Also connected Monday, a Mexican nationalist convicted of cocaine trafficking was sentenced to implicit 19 years successful situation for directing an planetary cause trafficking conspiracy, the Justice Department announced. According to tribunal documents, Jorge Humberto Perez Cazares, 41, "used unit to support his narcotics shipments and worked with a adjacent affiliate of the co-leader of the Sinaloa Cartel."
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