{"id":5770,"date":"2023-04-14T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2023-04-14T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T15:30:07","slug":"us-indicts-28-members-of-sinaloa-cartel-sons-of-el-chapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/americas\/us-indicts-28-members-of-sinaloa-cartel-sons-of-el-chapo\/2023\/04\/14\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"US indicts 28 members of Sinaloa Cartel, sons of El Chapo"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON<\/span> (AP)<\/span> –<\/span> The<\/span> Justice<\/span> Department<\/span> indicted<\/span> 28<\/span> members<\/span> of<\/span> Mexico’s<\/span> powerful<\/span> Sinaloa<\/span> cartel,<\/span> including<\/span> the<\/span> son<\/span> of<\/span> notorious<\/span> drug<\/span> lord<\/span> Joaquin<\/span> “El<\/span> Chapo”<\/span> Guzman,<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> sweeping<\/span> investigation<\/span> into<\/span> fentanyl<\/span> trafficking.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Attorney<\/span> General<\/span> Merrick<\/span> Garland<\/span> announced<\/span> the<\/span> indictment<\/span> on<\/span> Friday,<\/span> along<\/span> with<\/span> Drug<\/span> Enforcement<\/span> Administration<\/span> chief<\/span> Ann<\/span> Milgram<\/span> and<\/span> other<\/span> senior<\/span> federal<\/span> prosecutors.<\/span> office<\/span> director,<\/span> fentanyl<\/span> dealer,<\/span> security<\/span> leader,<\/span> financier,<\/span> arms<\/span> dealer.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> charges,<\/span> announced<\/span> Friday,<\/span> level<\/span> Guzm\u00e1n’s<\/span> three<\/span> sons,<\/span> known<\/span> as<\/span> Chapito,<\/span> or<\/span> Little<\/span> Chapo,<\/span> who<\/span> have<\/span> earned<\/span> a<\/span> reputation<\/span> as<\/span> the<\/span> more<\/span> violent<\/span> and<\/span> aggressive<\/span> faction<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> cartel.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> indictment<\/span> also<\/span> accuses<\/span> citizens<\/span> of<\/span> China<\/span> and<\/span> Guatemala<\/span> of<\/span> supplying<\/span> the<\/span> precursor<\/span> chemicals<\/span> needed<\/span> to<\/span> manufacture<\/span> fentanyl.<\/span> Other<\/span> defendants<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> case<\/span> include<\/span> those<\/span> accused<\/span> of<\/span> running<\/span> drug<\/span> laboratories<\/span> and<\/span> providing<\/span> security<\/span> and<\/span> weapons<\/span> to<\/span> drug<\/span> traffickers,<\/span> prosecutors<\/span> said.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>In<\/span> 2021,<\/span> nearly<\/span> 107,000<\/span> Americans<\/span> died<\/span> of<\/span> drug<\/span> overdoses<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> United<\/span> States.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The<\/span> notorious<\/span> Sinaloa<\/span> Cartel<\/span> drug<\/span> lord<\/span> was<\/span> convicted<\/span> of<\/span> a<\/span> major<\/span> smuggling<\/span> operation<\/span> in<\/span> 2019.<\/span> At<\/span> his<\/span> trial,<\/span> prosecutors<\/span> said<\/span> evidence<\/span> collected<\/span> since<\/span> the<\/span> late<\/span> 1980s<\/span> showed<\/span> he<\/span> and<\/span> his<\/span> murderous<\/span> cartels<\/span> smuggled<\/span> billions<\/span> of<\/span> dollars<\/span> of<\/span> cocaine,<\/span> heroin,<\/span> meth<\/span> and<\/span> marijuana<\/span> into<\/span> the<\/span> United<\/span> States.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department indicted 28 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including the son of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sweeping investigation into fentanyl trafficking. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the indictment on Friday, along with Drug Enforcement Administration chief Ann Milgram and other senior federal prosecutors. office […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2400,562,1567,2409,2412],"tags":[3871,3856,3872,3857,3858,3859,3860,3861,3862,3863,3864,3865,3866,3867,3868,3869,3870],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1000-4.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5772,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions\/5772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}