Sinaloa Cartel

During the operation, authorities seized and destroyed more than 57,000 pounds of chemical precursors that were allegedly purchased from a Chinese supplier

Oscar Hagelsieb, former head of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, said U.S. authorities might have offered protection "not only to the sons of El Chapo—they offered it to a lot of people."

At least 17 relatives of 'El Chapo' and son Ovidio Guzmán entered the U.S. last Friday

The former director of Homeland Security Investigations in Ciudad Juarez expects more relatives of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to reach the U.S.

Federal prosecutors call the cartel's drug operations a national security threat, targeting top figures of the Beltran Leyva Organization under terrorism laws for the first time.

The surrender of several relatives of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to U.S. authorities may indicate a rift within the family leading the powerful cartel

Over a dozen relatives of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, including his former wife Griselda López Pérez, entered the United States and surrendered to authorities

Roughly 850 federal judges, along with the entire Supreme Court, will be elected by voters on June 1

Genaro García Luna, a former secretary of public safety in Mexico, could now face a separate civil case in the United States, specifically in Florida

Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, will plead guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges in a Chicago federal court on July 9

The DEA conducted the "largest fentanyl bust" in agency history in a multi-state operation

Former Sinaloa Cartel boss "El Chapo" Guzmán is allegedly providing sensitive information about his former ally "El Mayo" Zambada's operations in exchange for improved prison conditions

Federal sources say the clandestine lab in La Palma belonged to Los Chapitos

A former Sinaloa cartel operative turned YouTube influencer told a Mexican journalist that Los Chapitos and La Mayiza had reached a peace agreement after Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada was captured by U.S. authorities last year.

On top of the hundreds of homicides, more than 1,300 people have gone missing, according to data from Noroeste

A 2024 report revealed that cartels and associated chemical brokers use front companies, money mules and U.S.-based intermediaries to purchase fentanyl precursor chemicals from Chinese-based suppliers

Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada could seek a deal with U.S. authorities to avoid the death penalty as a new hearing approaches

So far this year, five municipal officers have been reported killed in Teocaltiche alone; two of them in March

Federal authorities in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur have arrested seven individuals linked to the Sinaloa cartel, including the alleged leader of the criminal cell

Luis R. Conriquez and his crew had to be escorted out of the venue for safety after enraged concertgoers trashed their music equipment on stage

Less than a week after suspected members of "Los Chapitos" faction of the Sinaloa Cartel stormed a rehabilitation center in Culiacán, killing nine people, five such centers in the city have closed due to fears of suffering similar attacks

Current state Attorney Genera lorge Luis Llaven Abarca revealed that Joaquín "El Chorizo" Flores Hernández was the leader of the local gang known as Karma

Mexican special forces captured Leobardo Garcia Corrales, a close associate of the Sinaloa Cartel founders and for whom the U.S. offered $4 million

Five alleged money launderers for the Sinaloa Cartel were charged with multiple drug trafficking and money laundering offenses.

One of the individuals sanctioned laundered $50 million by using front companies and shell corporations to obscure the origins of the money it moved from the United States.

Members of the National Guard and Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense seized three properties used by a criminal cell to store firearms and drugs

The family of Kiki Camarena, the DEA agent infamously tortured and killed while investigating cartels, is suing three drug lords forty years after the murder

The lawyers of former Mexican secretary of public safety Genaro García Luna are saying communication with their client has been very difficult as he has been in solitary confinement for months

Ovidio Guzmán López was captured and extradited to the U.S. in September of 2023 while his brother Joaquín was arrested last July

President Arévalo launches "Ring of Fire" operation to combat organized crime, as violence from Mexico's Chiapas state spills into Guatemala.