The Justice Department has begun turning over long-secret audio recordings tied to the 1985 torture and killing of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena to the legal team of Rafael Caro Quintero, a former Mexican drug lord charged in the case.
A hacker working for drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán helped the Sinaloa Cartel track an FBI agent and monitor potential informants, according to a federal watchdog report released Thursday.
Border Patrol agents in western Texas have been warned of potential gunfire from members of the Sinaloa Cartel following the July arrest of two of its high-profile leaders, according to an internal memo.
Federal law enforcement has discovered an alarming link between the Sinaloa drug cartel and underground Chinese banking groups in the U.S. that laundered cash from drug trafficking proceeds.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, a son of former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has been extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking, money laundering and other charges, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in a statement.
Just days after he was added to the DEA’s most wanted list, a fentanyl trafficker with ties to the sons of “El Chapo” Guzman was found dead this week outside of a public hospital near Sinaloa in Mexico.
Notorious Columbian drug trafficker Dairo Antonio Usuga David, known as Otoniel, was sentenced Tuesday to 45 years in prison in the U.S.
