SoylentNews
SoylentNews is people
https://soylentnews.org/

Title    Mexican Drug Cartel Bosses-Turned-Informants Sentenced in Chicago
Date    Friday January 30 2015, @01:25PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the 5100+-days-of-free-meals-and-accommodations dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/01/30/0430215

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The twin brothers Pedro and Margarito Flores, bosses of the Chicago operation of Mexico's notorious, $2 billion Sinaloa drug cartel, were sentenced to serve 14-year sentences by a US District Court judge on Tuesday, under tight security. The judge noted that he would have given them both life sentences had it not been for their secret cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Agency, which led to the indictments of cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and numerous others. The brothers were apprehended by Federal agents in Chicago in 2008, but agreed to become Federal informants in exchange for reduced sentences. They wore wires as they flew to Mexico for secret meetings with Guzmán's lieutenants, and took occasional phone calls in Chicago from Guzmán himself, which were recorded by Federal agents.

As recently as 2013, Sinaloa is reported (by Bloomberg, as referenced by BusinessInsider) to have been supplying 80 percent of the cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine on the streets of Chicago, by the DEA's reckoning. And Chicago and Los Angeles were the two principal distribution hubs of the Sinaloa cartel in North America (map sketch here from BusinessInsider); Chicago supplied wholesalers in New York City, Washington DC, and other major cities in the eastern half of the US.

Guzmán was indicted by the US in 2009, but remained a fugitive until his arrest in Mexico in 2014. So far, Mexico has resisted requests for extradition to the US, preferring that Guzmán face justice in his home country.

Links

  1. "Sinaloa drug cartel, were sentenced to serve 14-year sentences" - http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/01/27/twins-who-ran-2-billion-drug-ring-get-14-years-after-snitching-on-sinaloa/
  2. "agreed to become Federal informants" - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-flores-brothers-cartel-sentencing-met-0127-20150126-story.html
  3. "referenced by BusinessInsider" - http://www.businessinsider.com/the-north-american-network-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-drug-empire-2015-1
  4. "here" - http://www.businessinsider.com/the-north-american-network-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-drug-empire-2015-1
  5. "arrest in Mexico" - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-drug-cartel-kingpin-behind-the-arrest-of-pubic-enemy-number-one/
  6. "resisted requests for extradition" - http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/01/27/mexico-ag-captured-drug-lord-chapo-guzman-to-stay-put

© Copyright 2024 - SoylentNews, All Rights Reserved

printed from SoylentNews, Mexican Drug Cartel Bosses-Turned-Informants Sentenced in Chicago on 2024-03-28 10:06:34