MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s safety chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 relations of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. final week as a part of a deal between a son of the previous head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration.
Mexican Safety Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by unbiased journalist Luis Chaparro that relations of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the USA in 2023, had entered the U.S.
Guzmán Lopez is likely one of the brothers left operating a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after infamous capo Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was imprisoned within the U.S. Video confirmed the relations strolling throughout the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to ready U.S. brokers.
Rumors had circulated final week that the youthful Guzmán would plead responsible to keep away from trial for a number of drug trafficking expenses within the U.S. after being extradited in 2023.
García Harfuch confirmed the relations’ crossing in a radio interview and stated it was clear to Mexican authorities that they have been doing so after negotiations between Guzmán López and the U.S. authorities.
He believed that was the case as a result of the previous cartel boss, whose lawyer stated in January he had entered negotiations with U.S. authorities, had been pointing fingers at members of different legal organizations possible as a part of a cooperation settlement.
“It’s evident that his household goes to the U.S. due to a negotiation or a suggestion that the Division of Justice is giving him,” Garcia Harfuch stated.
He stated that not one of the relations have been being pursued by Mexican authorities and that the federal government of U.S. President Donald Trump “has to share info” with Mexican prosecutors, one thing it has not but finished.
The affirmation by García Harfuch comes the identical day that the U.S. Lawyer Basic’s Workplace introduced it was charging a variety of high cartel leaders with “narcoterrorism” for the primary time for the reason that Trump administration declared a variety of cartels as overseas terrorist organizations.
Whereas prosecutors declined to touch upon the video of the household, U.S. Lawyer Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California and different officers despatched a warning to cartel members, repeatedly citing the Sinaloa Cartel by title.
“Let me be direct, to the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, you’re now not the hunters, you’re the hunted. You’ll be betrayed by your pals, you may be hounded by your enemies, and you’ll in the end end up and your face right here in a courtroom within the Southern District of California,” Gordon stated.
