DEA infiltrated Sinaloa cartel, dismantled cell and hit “Mayo” finances

Two American agents who infiltrated a drug trafficking ring Chicago (United States) materialized the dismantling of a cell allegedly responsible for Sinaloa Cartel.

With the consent of the authorities and the agency’s actions, the police were able to detect the activities of the group led by Roberto Velazquez Martinez, 36, who in 2018 was cornered in a cocaine transaction attended by his collaborators and agents, whose real identity was unknown to Velázquez Martínez.

But it wasn’t until October 2019 that he was trapped Lima Peru, and extradited in December 2020 to the United States. He pleaded not guilty. His case is scheduled for a public hearing on March 31, 2021, before Federal District Judge Joan H. Lefkow.

Santiago Papasquiaro, originally from Mexico; Camilo Álvarez, 44, from Durango, Mexico; José Hernádez Ramírez, 36, from Tamaulipas, Mexico; 36-year-old Ines Chávez Rodríguez from Santiago Papasquiaro, Mexico; Louis Vélez, 44, of Stickney, Ill, as well as Roberto Velázquez Martínez facing a criminal complaint and charges filed in United States District Court in Chicago, the defendants worked together to attempt to import and distribute cocaine in the United States on behalf of Sinaloan organization.

The identities of the operators were discovered during the more than two years of the investigations.

Earlier this year, with agents infiltrating the Sinaloa cartel, the DEA halted a massive drug shipment.

Danielle Dreyer, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (give), who infiltrated the Sinaloa cartel members of the Secretary of the Navy and US agencies to give a $ 90 million struck to the transnational group.

Thanks to intelligence work and the interception of communications, as well as close relations with the commanders of the criminal organization, the agent was able to give advised navy members to seize 2.5 tonnes of methamphetamine, in addition to 100 thousand fentanyl pills on the banks of Topolobampo, Sinaloa.

According to the documents in file 21-MAG-1432 which were recorded by RíoDoce, Danielle Dreyer learned of the cargo that would be moved by cargo across the Sea of ​​Cortez from the coast of Sinaloa to a point in the port of San Felipe, Baja California.

The investigation, which ended with the seizure of synthetic drugs, aimed to dismantle a money laundering network of the Jalisco’s Next Generation Cartel.

The DEA notes that the Sinaloa Cartel it continues to be the most powerful criminal organization in the country and the number one threat in opioid trafficking in the United States.

Currently, The organization under the command of Ismael el “Mayo” Zambada and Los Chapitos, son of Joaquín el “Chapo” Guzmán, maintains control of 15 of the 32 Mexican entities.and control the area of Arizona and California (USA), major contraband routes to the United States.

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