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California inmate recruited ‘wives’ to spread fentanyl across Alaska, feds say
5 days, 14 hours ago

California inmate recruited ‘wives’ to spread fentanyl across Alaska, feds say

LA Times  

As Sunday Powers drove along a remote highway in Alaska, her boss tracked her every move from 3,000 miles away. “This guy’s very intelligent,” Powers’ brother, Charles Hills, said of Sanchez. Prison officials developed leads that thwarted “planned violence” at Sanchez’s prison, said the spokeswoman, Terri Hardy. Her brother said she was recruited by one of Sanchez’s “wives,” who had …

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Mexico’s ex-security czar gets 38 years for cartel bribes. Is he the first of many?
2 months, 1 week ago

Mexico’s ex-security czar gets 38 years for cartel bribes. Is he the first of many?

LA Times  

In the history of narco-corruption in Mexico, no higher-ranking official than Genaro García Luna has ever faced justice in the United States. “You cannot parade this series of awards… it doesn’t wash, it doesn’t add up.” Cogan, who also presided over the case of El Chapo, told the former security chief: “You have the same kind of thuggishness as El …

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Longtime Mexican drug cartel leader set to be arraigned in New York
3 months, 1 week ago

Longtime Mexican drug cartel leader set to be arraigned in New York

The Independent  

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Mexico suggests US made a deal with Mexican drug lord to get his brother transferred from prison
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico suggests US made a deal with Mexican drug lord to get his brother transferred from prison

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors in Mexico suggested Thursday that U.S. authorities made a deal with a Mexican drug lord who turned in himself and another capo, to get his brother transferred from a U.S. prison. Instead, Mexican prosecutors are bringing charges against the younger Guzmán for apparently kidnapping Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada — an older drug boss from a rival …

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Mexican cartel leader known as “El Mayo” pleads not guilty in federal court
5 months ago

Mexican cartel leader known as “El Mayo” pleads not guilty in federal court

LA Times  

Soldiers patrol in Culiacan, the northern Mexico city that is the base of the Sinaloa cartel, on Oct. 18, 2019. Two of Mexico’s most powerful drug traffickers — one a longtime partner of the Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the other his son — were taken into U.S. custody on Thursday afternoon, a pair of arrests likely to …

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Mexican drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán claims he can't get calls or visits in a US prison
8 months, 1 week ago

Mexican drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán claims he can't get calls or visits in a US prison

The Independent  

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Mexican drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán claims he can’t get calls or visits in a US prison
8 months, 1 week ago

Mexican drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán claims he can’t get calls or visits in a US prison

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s once most powerful drug lord, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is claiming he cannot get phone calls or visits in the maximum security U.S. prison where he is serving a life sentence. Guzmán, who in the past was able to break out of Mexican prisons seemingly at will, wrote a letter to District Court Judge Brian M. …

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Mexican drug lord El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel to be released in the US
1 year, 3 months ago

Mexican drug lord El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel to be released in the US

Al Jazeera  

Coronel was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to three counts of helping the Sinaloa drug cartel. Emma Coronel, the wife of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, will be freed in Los Angeles on Wednesday, according to the United States Bureau of Prisons. The US-born 34-year-old was arrested in 2021 on drug …

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Mexico’s former top cop on trial in New York, accused of working for Sinaloa cartel
1 year, 11 months ago

Mexico’s former top cop on trial in New York, accused of working for Sinaloa cartel

LA Times  

Former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, shown in 2010, is on trial in the U.S. on federal charges of conspiring to traffic cocaine. García Luna frequently met with top U.S. security officials while in office and was often portrayed as the public face of Mexico’s drug war. “We knew Chapo was dirty,” Soriano said, “but Chapo is …

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Mexico: 29 people dead in operation to arrest son of ‘El Chapo’
1 year, 11 months ago

Mexico: 29 people dead in operation to arrest son of ‘El Chapo’

Al Jazeera  

Ten soldiers are among those killed during arrest of drug kingpin’s son, which sparks violence by cartel, government says. At least 29 people, including 10 soldiers, have been killed in an operation to arrest the son of jailed Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s government says after a shootout with cartel members. Ovidio Guzman, nicknamed “El Raton”, or …

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Attorney who laundered millions for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel sentenced to 15 years in prison
2 years, 2 months ago

Attorney who laundered millions for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel sentenced to 15 years in prison

LA Times  

Despite growing up poor in the stronghold city of the Sinaloa cartel, Juan Manuel Álvarez Inzunza overcame a difficult childhood and earned a law degree, even leaving his hometown for a time to avoid the drug violence that hung over the region. But he said Friday he was “deeply remorseful” and thanked the U.S. government for capturing him, saying his …

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Mexico arrests drug lord Caro Quintero, US calls for extradition
2 years, 5 months ago

Mexico arrests drug lord Caro Quintero, US calls for extradition

Al Jazeera  

Caro Quintero was previously jailed for the murder of a US anti-drugs agent, and was on the FBI’s ’10 Most Wanted’ list. Mexico’s navy has announced the capture of notorious drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted for the murder and torture of an American anti-narcotics agent in 1985, in a major win for law enforcement in the two countries. The …

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Wife of drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ gets 3 years on US charges
3 years ago

Wife of drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ gets 3 years on US charges

Associated Press  

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire. Emma Coronel Aispuro also helped her husband plan a dramatic escape through a tunnel dug underneath a prison in Mexico in 2015 by smuggling a GPS watch to him disguised …

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Inside the El Chapo house raffled off in Mexico which included a secret tunnel
3 years, 3 months ago

Inside the El Chapo house raffled off in Mexico which included a secret tunnel

The Independent  

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Son of drug cartel kingpin pleads guilty in San Diego
3 years, 7 months ago

Son of drug cartel kingpin pleads guilty in San Diego

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — A son of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court to being a leader in the global drug-trafficking syndicate, a newspaper reported. Ismael Zambada Imperial admitted in last week’s plea agreement to being a major coordinator in the trafficking operation, including importing and distributing tons of cocaine, heroin and marijuana …

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Tracing the life of El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro: From obscurity to celebrity and arrest
3 years, 9 months ago

Tracing the life of El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro: From obscurity to celebrity and arrest

Firstpost  

In embracing the limelight, had Coronel put a target on her own back? Culiacan: Despite her status as the wife of the world’s most notorious drug boss, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Emma Coronel Aispuro lived mostly in obscurity — until her husband went to prison for life. Until the trial, “Emma had remained anonymous like practically all of partners of …

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El Chapo's wife goes from obscurity to celebrity to arrest
3 years, 10 months ago

El Chapo's wife goes from obscurity to celebrity to arrest

The Independent  

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