Sinaloa Cartel: In the News
Authorities seize record [1.7] million fentanyl pills in Arizona
allegedly connected to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel
https://nypost.com/2021/12/17/cops-dea-seize-record-1-7-million-fentanyl-pills-in-arizona/
1.7 million–
Something familiar about that number…
In March, the DEA released its 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment, showing that Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's old Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel were the top two criminal organizations in Mexico distributing drugs, including fentanyl, to the United States.
DEA warned that Mexican cartels - specifically the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, were ramping up production of wholesale quantities of fentanyl in both powder and pill forms, as the United States struggled with the opioid epidemic.
The cartel employs gatekeepers assigned to Ports Of Entry and controls Arizona and California area smuggling corridors into the United States.'
December 17, 2021
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10321635/Mexican-drug-traffickers-utilizing-social-media-flood-United-States-fentanyl.html
They are known as Los Chapitos; the four most-trusted sons of the world's most notorious drug kingpin. As the I-Team has reported for several years, federal drug investigators in Chicago consider El Chapo's sons in charge of the Sinaloa cartel.
December 17, 2021
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-details-of-government-plan-to-track-down-and-arrest-four-of-el-chapos-sons/ar-AARVHNs
COCAINE kingpin El Chapo's nephew was filmed spraying a nightclub with bullets and injuring one person - before terrified cops let him go free.
Sinaloa state security chief Cristóbal Castañeda said that the police officers, who were patrolling the area aboard four motorcycles, allowed Guzmán and the other gunmen to leave the scene because they were outnumbered.
December 17, 2021
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4291159/el-chapos-nephew-opens-fire-in-bar/