With Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serving a life sentence, his sons steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities of the cheap, deadly drug that they smuggled into the U.S., prosecutors revealed in a recent indictment.
While the trial of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán focused on cocaine trafficking, the case against his sons revealed an alleged shift in the Sinaloa Cartel’s operations toward the fentanyl trade. An indictment unsealed in Manhattan described prosecutors’ claims that the next generation sought to produce highly potent fentanyl and sell it in the United States at extremely low prices. What role did Guzmán’s sons allegedly play, and how was the cartel’s operation changing? Continue reading to find out what happened →
