https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyk37/inside-the-sinaloa-cartels-fentanyl-smuggling-operations
Inside the Sinaloa Cartel's Fentanyl Smuggling Operations. We shadowed cartel members in Mexico along every step of the fentanyl supply chain. KH. by Keegan Hamilton. June 29, 2020, 6:27am. Snap

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VICE News gained access to a Sinaloa Cartel fentanyl-trafficking operation for a few days last year, during the production of our new podcast series called "

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The Sinaloa cartel, she added, now "relies on a network of Chinese money launderers to profit from selling drugs across the US". A person uses fentanyl in Portland, Oregon, earlier this year.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-brutal-sinaloa-cartel-flooded-us-fentanyl-los-chapitos-2023-5?op=1
The Sinaloa Cartel is the driving force behind the US's deadliest-ever drug threat — fentanyl. The cartel is led by "Los Chapitos," the sons of the infamous Mexican drug lord "El Chapo." A

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1170326191/fentanyl-mexico-drug-cartel-sinaloa-chapitos-el-chapo
U.S. says it 'infiltrated' the Sinaloa drug cartel in the fight against fentanyl. New U.S. Justice Department indictments contain this image of armed gang members allegedly associated with the

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The precipitous drop in price reflects the increased supply and availability of fentanyl being smuggled into the United States and the close ties between targets of this investigation and their Sinaloa Cartel supplier of fentanyl pills. This prosecution is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation.

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Updated June 21, 2024 at 12:51 PM ET. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced new sanctions this week against eight top leaders and associates of La Nueva Familia Michoacana, a fast-growing and often violent Mexican drug cartel smuggling street fentanyl into the U.S. . The measures are part of a widening Biden administration effort aimed at targeting the finances of Mexican drug gangs as

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2024/06/18/federal-indictment-alleges-alliance-between-sinaloa-cartel-and-money
Washington - The Justice Department today announced a 10-count superseding indictment charging Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel with conspiring with money-laundering groups linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug trafficking proceeds. During the conspiracy, more than $50 million in drug proceeds flowed between the Sinaloa Cartel associates and

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171202683/u-s-officials-say-theyre-poised-to-deal-a-crushing-blow-to-fentanyl-traffickers
The officials say the U.S. has infiltrated the Sinaloa cartel, but the effort has sparked a backlash in Mexico. Some experts are skeptical fentanyl smuggling can be slowed.

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Two dozen people have been charged. Chinese and Mexican law enforcement helped arrest fugitives who fled the United States after they were initially charged last year. "This investigation shows that the Sinaloa Cartel has entered into a new criminal partnership with Chinese nationals who launder money for the cartels," Drug Enforcement

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OFAC sanctions target powerful cartel trafficking fentanyl into the United States FinCEN Advisory provides crucial information to help financial institutions track illicit fentanyl financial flows WASHINGTON — Today, alongside law enforcement leaders in Atlanta, Georgia, Secretary Yellen announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-against-sinaloa-cartel-s-global-operation
Fentanyl trafficking, weapons, and money laundering charges were unsealed today in the Southern District of New York against 28 defendants, including three of the Chapitos; top lieutenants and leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel; alleged manufacturers and distributors of the Sinaloa Cartel's fentanyl; the managers of the violent armed security

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexico-drug-cartels-fentanyl-overdose-sinaloa-jalisco-11661866903
A fentanyl cook and Sinaloa cartel member holds a bottle labeled chlorine at a safe house in Culiacán, Sinaloa state. Paul Ratje for The Wall Street Journal By Jon Kamp

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Fentanyl is the deadliest drug threat the United States has ever faced, killing 38,000 Americans in the first six months of 2023 alone. Just one fentanyl pill can kill. Two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a potentially fatal dose and laboratory testing indicates seven out of 10 pills seized by the DEA contain a lethal dose of fentanyl.

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A counterfeit fentanyl pill that can be made for less than 25 cents in Mexico sells for $3 to $5 in cities like Seattle and Denver where drug markets are more established, but up to $100 in remote

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Federal officials say they were able to weaken the organization for a time, but in 2021, the cartel re-emerged, establishing new fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine smuggling routes into the U.S.

https://www.wsj.com/story/inside-the-mexican-cartels-that-rule-fentanyl-smuggling-48b5c665
Sept. 20, 2022. Tap story. Mexican criminal organizations are churning out fentanyl at high volume in laboratories and smuggling it across the border. The cartels cornered the market after China

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They just don't believe it. Fentanyl is really easy to make from industrial chemicals. The demand in the U.S., the level of opioid addiction is huge, so fentanyl trafficking is incredibly profitable. If the Chapitos are put in prison, there are other factions of the Sinaloa cartel and also other major cartels that are ready to take their place.

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But the experts also voiced skepticism about how effective this effort will be reducing fentanyl smuggling and preventing overdose deaths. One major complication is that Mexican officials are increasingly unwilling to join the U.S. effort by targeting the Sinaloa cartel aggressively inside their country.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/mexican-cartels-fentanyl-competition/
Updated: May 21, 2024 / 02:48 PM CDT. ( NewsNation) — Two powerful Mexican drug cartels are not only operating fentanyl and other illicit drug markets in all 50 U.S. states but have also successfully eliminated their drug-dealing competition using violence and other means, according to a report issued by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced one such case — an indictment against 24 individuals involved in a money-laundering scheme linked to the Sinaloa cartel.

https://www.state.gov/united-states-sanctions-sinaloa-cartel-fentanyl-traffickers-and-colombian-clan-del-golfo-leader/
The United States is leading global efforts to stop the illicit manufacture and trafficking of fentanyl, a leading cause of death of people age 18 to 49 in the United States. Today, we are taking action to target transnational criminals responsible for a significant portion of the illicit fentanyl, cocaine, and other deadly drugs trafficked […]

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The Sinaloa Cartel's only rule, according to everyone interviewed for this story, is that the fentanyl cannot be sold in the state. They said the cartel "doesn't want problems or deaths from

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2024/06/27/sinaloa-cartel-and-cjng-target-hawaii-with-fentanyl-and-meth/74149576007/
The dominant super cartels — Sinaloa and its rival, the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, known as CJNG — run drug pipelines through California and Nevada to flood Oahu with meth and other

https://www.state.gov/united-states-sanctions-additional-sinaloa-cartel-network-of-fentanyl-suppliers/
The United States is continuing our efforts to disrupt the global production and supply chain of illicit fentanyl, including by denying the criminal actors who engage in this activity access to the international financial system. As part of this whole of government effort , today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) […]

https://www.kuow.org/stories/u-s-says-it-infiltrated-the-sinaloa-drug-cartel-in-the-fight-against-fentanyl
5 mins. U.S. officials say they've identified and infiltrated the Mexican drug organization that's largely responsible for the fentanyl crisis killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. In

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Last month three sons of drugs kingpin "El Chapo" - members of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel - were charged in the United States with fentanyl trafficking, but only one of them is in custody. Their

https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2024-06-19/u-s-goes-after-mexican-cartel-leaders-drug-profits-in-fight-against-fentanyl
Federal officials say they were able to weaken the organization for a time, but in 2021, the cartel re-emerged, establishing new fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine smuggling routes into the U.S.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-18/sinaloa-cartel-chinese-money-laundering
With millions in cash piling up in the United States, the Sinaloa cartel needed to funnel proceeds from the sale of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine back to Mexico. Federal prosecutors say a