#sinaloa-cartel

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MEXICO CITY (AP) Armed men entered through a window to ambush Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the most elusive of the Sinaloa cartel's leaders, who was then loaded onto a plane, drugged and spirited across the border to the United States, according to details revealed Monday in the plea hearing of the drug trafficker who abducted him. Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the 39-year-old son of former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman,

Emma Coronel has fond memories of her marriage to Joaquin El Chapo Guzman Loera, but, as she reveals in a new documentary, she still wonders what her life would have been like if she hadn't married the infamous leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. In the production Married to El Chapo: Emma Coronel Speaks from the true crime channel Oxygen the former beauty queen offers intimate details about her relationship with the drug lord and her life outside of prison.

Federal authorities escalated their pursuit of fugitive former Olympian Ryan James Wedding this week, announcing a sweeping series of arrests and new murder charges that prosecutors say expose the inner workings of a violent, transnational narcotics organization. In a coordinated crackdown known as Operation Giant Slalom, officials unsealed a nine-count indictment accusing Wedding, 44, of ordering the January assassination of a key federal witness in Medellín, Colombia. The victim, identified as Canadian citizen Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia, had been cooperating with U.S. authorities in Wedding's 2024 drug-trafficking case, Snow Industry News reports.

The U.S. Treasury Department's crackdown on Mexican drug trafficking finances has now expanded to include a network of luxury restaurants and casinos in Mexico. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Thursday that, in a joint operation with Mexico, it has sanctioned 27 companies accused of allegedly laundering money on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel. In the crosshairs are businesses owned by the Hysa group in Mexico, Canada, and Poland,

The main target of the action is the laboratory supply company Sumilab, based in Culiacan, the capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The Treasury Department, which previously sanctioned the company in 2023, maintains that this business participates in the Sinaloa Cartel's fentanyl production chain. The U.S. identified the Favela Lopez family as being behind the Sumilab operation, specifically four siblings (Victor Andres, Francisco, Jorge Luis, and Gabriela) and some of their partners (Jairo Verdugo and Gilberto Gallardo).

Wedding, who competed for Canada as a snowboarder at the 2002 Olympic Games in Utah, is accused of running a $1-billion US criminal enterprise that routinely smuggles truckloads of cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine across North America. Mexico has also linked Wedding's network to international arms trafficking. The Thunder Bay, Ont., native and his second-in-command, fellow Canadian Andrew Clark, are charged with orchestrating four murders between them in Ontario, including the mistaken-identity shootings of a couple visiting from India.

President Sheinbaum stated that Mexico has no ongoing investigation regarding any connections between Nicolás Maduro and the Sinaloa Cartel, despite the US claims.

Authorities reported the discovery of 20 bodies abandoned along Highway 15, with four decapitated victims hung from a bridge and further bodies found in a truck.

Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge in Sinaloa, Mexico, amid escalating cartel violence, which claimed the lives of 20 individuals in one day.

In total, about 700 animals were moved by road to a ranch on the coast. This caravan of animals is a kind of 21st-century Noah's Ark.

YEUNG (voice-over): This man is talking to us on the condition we hide his identity and location.

Maria Isabel Cruz notes how the community has grown accustomed to finding bodies: "Once there, it wasn't difficult to find the bodies: here a leg sticking out of a pile of dust."