Federal prosecutors in southern California raised Narko’s terrorism accusations on Tuesday against two drug captains in Cenaloa, accusing them of providing material support for terrorism in terms of their alleged efforts to smuggle large quantities of fentanel, cocaine, metamafitamine and heroin in the United States.
The indictment submitted at the Federal Provincial Court in San Diego was the first time that the Sinaloa Cartel coins have been accused of terrorist crimes since the Trump administration has determined the foreign terrorist organization earlier this year.
The indictment was accused of father and son – Pedro Enzunza Norgo, 62, and Pedro Enzzunza Coronel, 33, of violating terrorist laws while managing drugs that arrived from Mexico to Guatemala, Panama and Costa Rica. Prosecutors said that the two men were the leaders of the Beltran Liva faction in the cartel, and they were named in the indictment with five of their subordinates, who were not accused of terrorist crimes.
The 9 -page shipping document did not include any details about how men participated in alleged terrorism. It remains to see whether the issue against them will reveal any evidence that supports terrorist charges that go beyond the administration’s decision to define Sinaloa Cartel as a terrorist organization.
Trump administration officials have also appointed the other criminal mafia as terrorist groups, including Mexican drug gangs such as Gillesco, the new generation Cartel and traditional street gangs such as Trin de Aragoa, which is based in Venezuela, and Salvadwan group known as MS-13.
Over the past few years, general prosecutors, Mr. Inzunza Noriega and his son have traveled tens of thousands of kilograms of fentanel in the United States. In December, they said, Mexican law enforcement officials renewed multiple sites in Senaloa, which was controlled by men and managed by men, Discover nearly 20 million doses of the drug In what was described as a recording attack.
At that time, President Claudia Shinbum of Mexico said that the operations were part of a long investigation and resulted in “the largest group seizure of fentanel beans ever.” She added that the operation had seized more than a ton of fentanel beans of about $ 400 million.
US law enforcement officials have generally supported the idea of appointing drug gangs as terrorist organizations – if only because it gives public prosecutors the ability to accuse defendants in the cartel under strong federal laws that often carry harsh penalties.
But the prosecutors have not yet had to defend such accusations in court and may face a reaction not only from the defense lawyer, but also from the judges who supervise such cases.
Public prosecutors traditionally relied on the drug conspiracy charges to go after the Cartel customers.
Last week, for example, Ovidio Guzmán López, one of the four sons of the former Sinaloa Cartel leader known as El Chapo, explained in court papers on that. Plan for support in July To a sprawling charge known as a continuous criminal institution.
