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Thursday, April 25, 2024

El Chapo

The latest reports on Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera’s Sinaloa cartel and its Chicago ties.

Adan Casarrubias Salgado. The Mexican government blacked out his eyes in the photo.
The Watchdogs
Drug cartel leader 'El Tomate' admits smuggling drugs to Chicago, faces decades in prison
Adan Casarrubias Salgado led the Guerreros Unidos cartel, which has been blamed for the presumed massacre of 43 college students in Mexico in 2014.
By Jon Seidel
 
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted from a plane by federal agents in New York in 2017. The drug cartel leader is serving a life sentence.
El Chapo
El Chapo pal accused of running logistics for Sinaloa kingpin asks for break in 22-year sentence
Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez, 68, was one of the top Sinaloa members to be sentenced in Chicago.
By Frank Main
 
A dealer prepares cocaine for a street sale.
Woman accused of moving cocaine in Chicago for Mexican traffickers extradited to the United States
By Frank Main
 
Oscar Manuel Gastelum Iribe.
El Chapo
Suspected Mexican cartel leader facing drug charges in Chicago sees Treasury Department freeze his assets
Authorities say Oscar Manuel Gastelum Iribe, as head of the Beltran Leyva Organization, conspired to import tons of heroin and cocaine.
By Frank Main
 
This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained in Culiacan, Mexico, in October 2019. Fentanyl is blamed in at least 1,825 deaths in Cook County last year.
El Chapo
Mexico arrests alleged security chief for the ‘Chapitos’ wing of the Sinaloa drug cartel
Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas was being sought in the U.S. on charges of conspiracy to import and distribute fentanyl.
By Associated Press
 
This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained in Culiacan, Mexico, in October 2019.
Group tied to El Chapo’s sons reportedly orders halt to manufacture of fentanyl in Mexico, but experts are skeptical
By Frank Main
 
Pedro Flores (izquierda) y su hermano Margarito Flores fueron alguna vez los mayores narcotraficantes de Chicago hasta que fueron capturados y acordaron ayudar a las autoridades federales a derrocar al capo del cartel de Sinaloa Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
La Voz Chicago
Hermano mayor de gemelos narcotraficantes de Chicago sentenciado por ayudar a lavar dinero de la droga
Armando Flores, hermano de Margaritoy Pedro Flores, admitió haber escondido $2.3 millones de los ingresos de drogas de los gemelos bajo su porche trasero en Texas. Le concedieron “tiempo cumplido” por los 19 meses que pasó en la cárcel.
By Frank Main
 
Pedro Flores (izquierda) y su hermano Margarito Flores fueron alguna vez los mayores narcotraficantes de Chicago hasta que fueron capturados y acordaron ayudar a las autoridades federales a derrocar al capo del cartel de Sinaloa Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.
In El Chapo fallout, older brother of twin Chicago drug traffickers sentenced for helping launder their money
By Frank Main
 
Valerie Gaytán, sentenciada a prisión, dijo en el último episodio del podcast “Surviving El Chapo” (sobreviviendo El Chapo), “Sólo quiero concientizar a otras mujeres que han caminado en mis zapatos”.
La Voz Chicago
Una ‘esposa del cártel’ da entrevista en podcast antes de ir a prisión
La esposa de uno de los gemelos Flores dice en el podcast que su mayor temor es estar sola, lejos de su familia, en prisión.
By Frank Main
 
Valerie Gaytán, sentenciada a prisión, dijo en el último episodio del podcast “Surviving El Chapo” (sobreviviendo El Chapo), “Sólo quiero concientizar a otras mujeres que han caminado en mis zapatos”.
‘Cartel wife’ Valerie Gaytan, whose husband helped bring down El Chapo, warns of ‘fast life’
By Frank Main
 
Valerie Gaytán, derecha, y Vivianna López aparecieron en el programa de CNBC “American Greed” en 2021.
La Voz Chicago
Condenan a esposas de gemelos Flores a 3 años y medio de prisión por lavado de dinero
Los federales señalaron que el dinero se generó “a través de la venta de miles de kilogramos de drogas en los Estados Unidos”.
By Jon Seidel
 
Valerie Gaytán, derecha, y Vivianna López aparecieron en el programa de CNBC “American Greed” en 2021.
El Chapo
Another ‘cartel wife’ gets 3.5 years for hiding millions in drug money tied to El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel
The feds pointed out the $2.3 million Valerie Gaytan stashed was generated “through the sale of thousands of kilograms of drugs in the United States ... that harmed individuals and communities in countless ways.”
By Jon Seidel
 
Ovidio Guzmán López llegó al Aeropuerto O’Hare el viernes, según la oficina del fiscal federal en Chicago.
El Chapo
‘El Raton,’ son of cartel kingpin ‘El Chapo,’ appears in chains at his arraignment in Chicago
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33, is charged with taking over a ruthless Mexican cartel that trafficked drugs into Chicago and the U.S.
By Andy Grimm
 
Ovidio Guzmán López llegó al Aeropuerto O’Hare el viernes, según la oficina del fiscal federal en Chicago.
El Chapo
‘El Chapo’ son extradited to Chicago to face drug conspiracy charges
El Chapo also faced federal drug charges in Chicago, but was ultimately was prosecuted in federal court in Brooklyn. Now his son will likely be arraigned at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
By Jon Seidel and Frank Main
 
Peso Pluma se presenta en los premios MTV Video Music Awards el martes 12 de septiembre de 2023 en el Prudential Center en Newark, Nueva Jersey.
Music
Peso Pluma concert in Rosemont rescheduled after threats by Mexican drug cartel
Peso Pluma —the first regional Mexican star to perform at the VMA’s on Tuesday night — has not commented on the threat by the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
By Sun-times Staff And Wires
 
Valerie Gaytan (right) and her sister-in-law Vivianna Lopez during a 2021 appearance on the CNBC show “American Greed.”
El Chapo
In El Chapo fallout, one of Chicago ‘cartel wives’ should get stiffer sentence than accomplices, feds say
They say Valerie Gaytan should get five years for laundering drug money from her husband Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro Flores, Chicago cocaine kingpins who helped convict the Sinaloa cartel boss. Her sister-in-law got 3½ years.
By Frank Main
 
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. She has been released from federal custody after completing a three-year sentence.
El Chapo
El Chapo’s wife released from U.S. custody after 3-year prison sentence
The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been released from federal custody after completing a sentence for helping run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.
By Associated Press
 
Vivianna López, esposa de Pedro, y Valerie Gaytán, esposa de Margarito, se declararon culpables a principios de este año de cargos que las acusaban de no haber entregado todas las ganancias del narcotráfico de sus maridos.
La Voz Chicago
Sentencian a cuñada de Pedro Flores a libertad condicional
Los fiscales habían recomendado una sentencia de dos años de prisión para Bianca Finnigan, pero el juez coincidió con la abogada defensora Andrea Gambino en que su clienta tuvo el papel más mínimo en la conspiración.
By Matthew Hendrickson
 
Vivianna López, esposa de Pedro, y Valerie Gaytán, esposa de Margarito, se declararon culpables a principios de este año de cargos que las acusaban de no haber entregado todas las ganancias del narcotráfico de sus maridos.
‘Don’t screw up,’ judge warns sister-in-law of Flores twins who turned on El Chapo, giving her probation
By Matthew Hendrickson
 
Adan Casarrubias Salgado (left), known as El Tomate, and his late brother Mario Casarrubias Salgado, nicknamed El Sapo Guapo, or the Handsome Toad — were Chicago pizza delivery guys who became among the reputed leaders of the Guerreros Unidos Mexican drug cartel. The Mexican government blacked out Adan Casarrubias Salgado’s eyes in the photo.
They were 2 Chicago pizza delivery guys. Then, they ran a Mexican drug cartel, feds say
By Oscar Lopez and Frank Main
 
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