LIVE: Attorney General Garland Press Conference on Drug Trafficking Enforcement Action
Garland: Today, the Justice Department is announcing significant enforcement actions against the largest, most violent, and most prolific Fentanyl trafficking operation in the world…run by the Sinaloa cartel, and fueled by Chinese precursor chemical and pharmaceutical companies.
Garland: Two of the defendants tested the potency of the cartel's Fentanyl on individuals who were tied down…after an addict died testing a batch of the cartel's Fentanyl, one of the defendants sent the batch to the United States anyway.
Garland: [The cartel] have fed some of their victims, dead and alive, to tigers belonging to the Chapitos.
Milgram [DEA Administrator]: Most of the Fentanyl in the United States comes from the Sinaloa Cartel…El Chapo's sons, known as Los Chapitos, became the new leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel…the Chapitos pioneered the manufacture and trafficking of the deadliest drug our country has ever faced.
Garland: We met yesterday with all of the major security ministers of Mexico; secretary of defense, secretary of the navy, the attorney general, the security of interior security, the foreign minister, and we all know we need to work together continually to strike against this enemy that is injuring people in both of our countries.
[very important collaboration that will eventually lead to destroying the cartels]