How the DEA infiltrated the Sinaloa cartel: it was the $ 90 million coup against Mayo Zambada’s criminal empire

He was 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 the interception of intelligence and communications, as well as close relations with the commanders of the criminal organization, the agent was able to give warned Navy members to seize 2.5 tons of methamphetamine, in addition to 100 thousand fentanyl pills on the banks of Topolobampo, Sinaloa.

According to 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 Sinalo coast to a point in the port of San Felipe, Baja California.

The investigation began in Quintana Roo, in the tourist towns of Tulum and Cancun. Since the follow the tracks to Culiacán, where he established friendly ties with the middle managers of the Sinaloa Cartel. With more undercover officers, they worked for months on investigations.

However, he said RíoDoce, This is not the first participation of the DEA agent, since on September 1, 2020, its work led to the seizure of three tons of cocaine in Mahual, Quintana Roo. There, three crew members who were carrying drugs in a boat were arrested.

Danielle Dreyer’s investigations allowed her get closer and closer to the top of the criminal group, pointed out the sinaloan environment. So in January he learned of the shipment of an important cargo to San Felipe. Later he learned that it would be two tons that would leave Las Arenitas, Sinaloa.

According to his testimony under oath before the Court of the Southern District of New York before Judge James L. Cott, It wouldn’t be a speedboat, but a bigger ship. Then he alerted Mexico’s federal forces that the packages would leave on January 29, so the Marines were already waiting for the cargo.

The lawsuit in federal court indicates that the Mexican Navy followed the ship with a King Air-type aircraft to the northeastern Gulf of California and mounted operations to intercept it. A few hours later, this marine vehicle was insured for approximately 12 nautical miles south of the Topolobampo coast, A house.

In the Reporteña type boat named “Diamante” they traveled José Loreto Gastelum Torres Yes Fredy Alejandro Gastelum Vega, who were indicted in Manhattan Federal Court on February 5.

“These two traffickers were reportedly caught red-handed with over $ 90 million worth of fentanyl and methamphetamine“Said Ray Donovan, a DEA special agent who reported the indictments.

A day after the two subjects were indicted in New York, the Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico linked them to the process. According to local media revelations, it is a couple of fishermen belonging to a cooperative which received the support of the Secretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture of Sinaloa when the current candidate for the post of governor of the Citizen Movement, Sergio torres, was in charge of the unit.

The charge brought by Gastelum Torres, 53, and Gastelum Vega, 33, is for conspiracy to import at least 500 grams of methamphetamine and 400 grams of fentanyl into the United States, hence the minimum sentence they incur would be 10 years and the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. But the judge must determine the sentence after a trial.

“By transporting methamphetamine and fentanyl tablets from Las Arenitas to Topolobampo, José Loreto Gastelum Torres and Fredy Alejandro Gastelum Vega, the accused, brought methamphetamine and fentanyl pills about 80 miles from the United States“Said the agent in the indictment consulted by Infobae Mexico.

Despite the fact that this coup went to the Sinaloa cartel, Danielle Dreyer’s investigations focused on the dismantling of a money laundering network of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, but little by little he discovered the operations of other groups like the Gulf Cartel, The Zetas and the same faction from Sinaloa.

In this way he established contacts in Cancun, where he arrived with fake credentials get involved with the media coordinators who informed him of the shipments that would be sent by land and sea from Sinaloa at the border with the United States. While he has located illegal businesses that launder money for Can Zambada and Los Chapitos, located in Benito Juárez, Isla Mujeres, Lázaro Cárdenas, Puerto Morelos, Solidaridad, Tulum and Cozumel.

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