El Chapo
The latest reports on Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera’s Sinaloa cartel and its Chicago ties.
Authorities say Oscar Manuel Gastelum Iribe, as head of the Beltran Leyva Organization, conspired to import tons of heroin and cocaine.
Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas was being sought in the U.S. on charges of conspiracy to import and distribute fentanyl.
Armando Flores, hermano de Margaritoy Pedro Flores, admitió haber escondido $2.3 millones de los ingresos de drogas de los gemelos bajo su porche trasero en Texas. Le concedieron “tiempo cumplido” por los 19 meses que pasó en la cárcel.
La esposa de uno de los gemelos Flores dice en el podcast que su mayor temor es estar sola, lejos de su familia, en prisión.
Los federales señalaron que el dinero se generó “a través de la venta de miles de kilogramos de drogas en los Estados Unidos”.
The feds pointed out the $2.3 million Valerie Gaytan stashed was generated “through the sale of thousands of kilograms of drugs in the United States ... that harmed individuals and communities in countless ways.”
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33, is charged with taking over a ruthless Mexican cartel that trafficked drugs into Chicago and the U.S.
El Chapo also faced federal drug charges in Chicago, but was ultimately was prosecuted in federal court in Brooklyn. Now his son will likely be arraigned at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
Peso Pluma —the first regional Mexican star to perform at the VMA’s on Tuesday night — has not commented on the threat by the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
They say Valerie Gaytan should get five years for laundering drug money from her husband Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro Flores, Chicago cocaine kingpins who helped convict the Sinaloa cartel boss. Her sister-in-law got 3½ years.
The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been released from federal custody after completing a sentence for helping run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.
Los fiscales habían recomendado una sentencia de dos años de prisión para Bianca Finnigan, pero el juez coincidió con la abogada defensora Andrea Gambino en que su clienta tuvo el papel más mínimo en la conspiración.
Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, known as “The Engineer,” pleaded guilty to a single count in an indictment that targeted the top hierarchy of the Sinaloa cartel.
Vivianna Lopez made an emotional plea for mercy, telling the judge she feared for the lives of her children after Pedro Flores and his brother, Margarito, famously turned against the Sinaloa cartel and helped bring down Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.
Vivianna Lopez and Valerie Gaytan, wives of Pedro and Margarito Flores, admitted to involvement in a conspiracy to launder millions from their husbands’ drug trafficking business after the men were taken into federal custody.
The charges against the four men known as the “Chapitos,” are part of a Justice Department campaign against what Attorney General Merrick Garland called “the largest, most violent and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world.” They even fed people to tigers, authorities say.
Pedro Flores’s wife Vivianna Lopez and Margarito Flores’s wife Valerie Gaytan collected drug debts owed to their husbands and spent lavishly, according to prosecutors.
Lyons, the first woman to hold the post, says she’ll target Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel, saying the fentanyl they supply is “like nothing I’ve ever seen in my 30 years in law enforcement.”
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