Sinaloa Cartel

Unsealed court documents highlight how drug cartels from Mexico and Colombia are leveraging cryptocurrency, particularly Tether (CRYPTO: USDT) and Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), to launder tens of millions of dollars. What Happened: The documents shed light on how criminal organizations, including the...

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel is in U.S. custody along with Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of the other cartel co-founder Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed in a press release. The two men were arrested Thursday in El Paso,...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a 10-count indictment against Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, which is run by the sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, who is serving a life sentence in a supermax prison in Colorado. These associates...

Cannabis is still illegal in Mexico, though not entirely, especially after the Mexican Supreme Court declared prohibition unconstitutional and the country's Congress seems to be hell-bent on passing a full legalization law that would establish the legal means to grow,...

Genaro García Luna, once Mexico's security minister with close ties to the DEA and US government, was found guilty of taking millions of dollars in bribes from Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel while supposedly working to break up Mexico’s violent drug gangs. García Luna,...

In his second State of the Union, President Biden touched on what has been called the most serious issue the DEA has seen in decades and doubtless the country’s most pressing issue: the opioid crisis and more specifically the flood of fentanyl into the U.S.  More than...

Former cartel bosses, drug traffickers and police officers took the stand this week in the trial of Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former federal security minister and architect of the country’s war on drugs, which he carried out while publicly working with the DEA and...

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the billionaire Sinaloa Cartel kingpin who is serving a life sentence in a Colorado supermax prison is not happy with his digs. So, he’s begging Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to bring him...

It’s been nearly three years since Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán was convicted and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. Now a former security minister is accused of being El Chapo’s man inside the Mexican government and is facing trial in the...

All hell broke loose in Sinaloa after Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán and head of the Sinaloa Cartel. El Chapo is serving a life sentence at Colorado's Supermax prison. The wave of violence...

Ovidio Guzmán, head of the Sinaloa cartel and son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, was arrested in a raid undertaken by Mexican authorities on Thursday. The morning incursion into Culiacán, reported local authorities, was marked by shootings, blockades and...

The Sinaloa Cartel wants to regain its share of the cannabis business it once led. This time, it seems that the criminal organization wants to do it the right way and avoid the illegal side of the business. According to Business Insider (BI), the three sons of notorious drug lord Joaquín...