He United States Department of Justice reported that agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEAfor its acronym in English) managed to infiltrate inside the faction of little boys of Sinaloa Cartel.
“For a year and a half, the DEA proactively infiltrated Sinaloa Cartel and the network Chaptershe gained unprecedented access to the highest levels of the organization and followed them all over the world,” the agency’s agent explained at a press conference. DEAAnne Milgram.
The security agencies’ notice was accompanied by the announcement of various criminal charges against 28 members of the Sinaloa Cartelincluding the children of Chapo Guzmán, in several United States federal courts for the crimes of trafficking fentanyl, weapons and money laundering.
“The Department of Justice Announces Significant Enforcement Actions Against the World’s Largest, Violent, and Prolific Trafficking Operation in Fentanyl, Led by the Sinaloa Cartel and driven by Chinese precursor pharmaceutical and chemical companies,” Attorney General Merrick B. Guirnalda said.
According to journalist Peniley Ramírez, the DEA was present through informants at a meeting with high-level members of the Pacific Cartel in an “isolated ranch” in May 2022 in Sinaloa, meeting where he was present Ovid Guzmana.k.a The mouse.
In her column in the newspaper Reforma, the famous journalist recounted the details of this meeting, which was watched by 40 men with guns and six armored trucks with machine guns on their roofs.
According to Peniley Ramirez, The mousewho was captured by the Mexican armed forces in the early hours of January 5, 2023, told the meeting that he was working to centralize the manufacture of fentanyl in Sinaloa.
The son of Chapo Guzmán pointed to this ranch, explained Ramírez, who had a strong concern for the DEA who was already tracking his steps, without imagining that within this meeting were informants from the anti-drug agency.
The journalist pointed out that during this meeting, The mouse reached an agreement with a distributor in Los Angeles. He added that informants from the DEA They recorded over the last three years, until before his arrest, Ovidio Guzmán doing all kinds of business.
These recordings showed the interior of the faction of Sinaloa CartelWell, according to the communicator, she confirmed who the corrupt cooks, distributors, operators and officials are on both sides of the border.
He justice department He listed the different types of transport they use little boys to transport drugs to the United States: cargo planes, private planes, submarines and other submersible and semi-submersible vessels, container ships, supply vessels, speedboats, fishing boats, buses, wagons, semi- private and commercial interstate and commercial trailers, automobiles and boats. In addition to foreign carriers to transport drugs and chemical precursors.
“They allegedly maintained a network of post offices, tunnels and hideouts across Mexico and the United States to continue their drug trafficking activities. little boys allegedly used these networks to import drugs into the UNITED STATES“, detailed the justice department.
Peniley Ramírez assured that since 2014 the DEA has been following the cases of little boyswhen Iván and Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, along with Ovidio and Joaquín Guzmán López, started making fentanyl in a makeshift lab in a small house in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
However, the children of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel now they make fentanyl in an underground lab near culiacan. This place, according to the journalist, has an elevator, industrial furnaces and pill presses.