The son of famous Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has been arrested.
Joaquín Guzmán López was arrested along with his father’s former partner, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo.
Zambada, considered one of the most important traffickers in Mexican history, and Guzmán López were arrested in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, the US Department of Justice said.
They were allegedly leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, which the department described in a statement as “one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world.”
Zambada and Guzmán López face multiple charges in the United States “for leading the Cartel’s criminal operations, including its deadly fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking networks,” according to the statement.
“El Chapo” photographed in New York in January 2017, shortly after his extradition to the United States.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said: “Garcia and Guzmán have allegedly overseen the trafficking of tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl into the United States along with related violence.
“These arrests are an example of the FBI and our partners’ commitment to dismantling violent transnational criminal organizations like the Sinaloa Cartel.”
Two US officials told Reuters that Zambada and Guzmán López were detained after landing on a private plane.
In February, US federal prosecutors charged Zambada with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, which
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, it is the leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.
El Chapo is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison after being extradited to the United States in 2017.
El Chapo escaped from prison in Mexico twice before he was finally extradited.
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‘Los Chapitos’
After El Chapo’s extradition, his criminal empire was inherited by four of his sons, known as Los Chapitos or
The little Chapos, who took over their part of the cartel and became one of the largest exporters of fentanyl to the United States.
Ovidio Guzmán López
Ovidio Guzmán López, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, all sons of El Chapo, were there in April of last year. accused of drug trafficking by the United States Department of Justice.
Ovidio Guzmán López was captured by Mexican security forces in Culiacán, capital of the state of Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico, in January 2023.
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