Prosecutors accuse Sinaloa cartel companies with terrorism crimes

On Tuesday, the state prosecutor's office in South California submitted charges of narco-terrorism against two leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel and, in connection with their alleged efforts, accused large amounts of fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin in the united states, material support for terrorism in connection with their alleged efforts.

The indictment submitted to the Federal District Court in San Diego was for the first time that the public prosecutor accused the employees of the Sinaloa cartel for terrorism crimes since the Trump government called the group of the group a foreign terrorist organization at the beginning of this year.

The indictment accused a father and a son – Pedro Inzunza Noriega (62) and Pedro Inzunza Coronel (33 – against terrorism laws, while led a drug business that came from Mexico to Guatemala, Panama and Costa Rica. Charges named with five of their subordinates who were not accused of the crimes of terrorism.

The native charging document did not contain any details about how the men had dealt with the alleged narcotic terrorism. It remains to be seen whether the case against you will result in all evidence of fighting terrorism that go beyond the government's decision to identify the Sinaloa cartel as a terrorist organization.

Trump management officers have also referred to other criminals Mafias as terrorist groups, including Mexican drug gangs such as the Jalalco New Generation Cartel and more traditional street bands such as Tren de Aragua, which is located in Venezuela, and the Salvoran Group, known as MS-13.

In recent years, the prosecutors have claimed that Mr. Inzunza Noriega and his son have acted tens of thousands of kilograms of Fentanyl to the United States. In December, they said that the Mexican law enforcement officers searched several locations in Sinaloa, which were controlled and managed by the men, and discovered almost 20 million doses of the drug in a drug described as a record fitting.

At that time, President Claudia Sheinbaum from Mexico said that the operations were part of a long examination and had led to “the greatest mass sequence of fentanyl pills that were ever carried out. She added that the operation confiscated more than one ton of fentanyl pills worth almost 400 million US dollar.

The US criminal prosecution officers generally support the idea of ​​describing drug cartels as terrorist organizations – if only because they give the public prosecutors the opportunity to burden antitrust defendants according to powerful federal laws that often bear hard punishments.

However, the prosecutors did not have to defend such charges in court and possibly not only from defenders, but also by judges who monitor such cases.

The public prosecutor has traditionally rely on the indictment of drug conspiracy to pursue cartel companies.

Last week, for example, Ovidio Guzmán López, one of four sons of the former Sinaloa cartel leader, known as El Chapo, stated in court files that he was intended to confess in July to describe a spread that is known as a continuing criminal company.