Trump admin sanctions El Chapo's children, violent fentanyl-trafficking cartel arm Los Chapitos

The Trump administration is sanctioning El Chapo’s children and Los Chapitos – a fentanyl trafficking faction of the convulsive Sinaloa cartel, Fox News Digital has learned. 

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Los Chapitos, which controls laboratories liable for introducing fentanyl successful counterfeit pills manufactured by the Sinaloa cartel and trafficked to the United States.

Gunmen linked to the Sinaloa cartel were progressive successful the Oct. 18, 2024, sidesplitting of U.S. Marine seasoned Nicholas Quets successful Sonora, Mexico.

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Nicholas Douglas Quets came from a beardown miliary background. (Quets Family )

Additionally, the Treasury Department designated the 2 sons of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera: Archivaldo Ivan Guzman Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar.

"Los Chapitos is simply a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa cartel astatine the forefront of fentanyl trafficking successful the United States," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday. "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."

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during a briefing with property caput Karoline Leavitt astatine the White House, April 29, 2025. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)

Bessent added that the Treasury Department is "maximizing each disposable tools to halt the fentanyl situation and assistance prevention lives."

The Treasury Department connected Monday besides sanctioned a determination web of Los Chapitos associates and businesses based successful Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, that allegedly engages successful drug tracking, extortion, kidnapping and wealth laundering.

The Treasury Department coordinated with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to instrumentality the enactment Monday.

Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine seasoned who worked for Pima County, Arizona, connected h2o reclamation projects, was changeable and killed on the Caborca-Altar Highway successful bluish Mexico connected Oct. 18, 2024.

Bundles of bluish pills containing fentanyl intercepted astatine the border. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

Quets’ father, Doug, who served 20 years successful the U.S. Army and different 20 years successful national instrumentality enforcement, expressed his family’s "deep and enduring gratitude to President Trump and his full Cabinet for unwaveringly utilizing each instrumentality of nationalist powerfulness successful the pursuit of justness for our beloved Nicholas."

"Nicholas Quets was an guiltless American and arrogant U.S. Marine seasoned whose agleam aboriginal was stolen connected October 18, 2024, erstwhile helium was ambushed conscionable southbound of the U.S. borderline by a heavy equipped compartment of the Sinaloa cartel," Quets said successful a statement. "Cowards successful cartel insignia – much than 2 twelve beardown – pursued Nicholas and fatally changeable him successful the back, done the heart, during a failed carjacking, lone aft confirming his presumption arsenic an American."

Quets added: "This was not conscionable execution – it was a deliberate enactment of panic against a known American citizen."

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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers successful Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016. (Tomas Bravo/File Photo/Reuters)

Quets said the Treasury Department’s designation of the Sinaloa cartel arsenic a overseas violent enactment was a "vital archetypal measurement successful honoring Nicholas’ representation and protecting different Americans from suffering akin tragedies."

"Secretary Bessent’s decisive enactment to people the Sinaloa cartel’s fiscal networks strikes astatine the bosom of this transnational threat," Quets said. "Disrupting their quality to determination money, launder profits and bribe officials is indispensable to dismantling this transgression empire."