Sinaloa

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, right, and Attorney General Merrick Garland speak about announced April 14, 2023, against several leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, a transnational drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico, and several of its facilitators across the world. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Mexican cartel targeted by Biden administration in multiple fentanyl indictments

BY: - April 14, 2023

WASHINGTON — As illicit fentanyl seizures reach record numbers, the Biden administration on Friday announced “government-wide efforts” to counter narcotics trafficking, including criminally charging members of the Sinaloa Cartel operating out of Mexico and sanctioning Chinese producers of the chemicals used to make the synthetic drug. The Department of Justice unsealed indictments alleging fentanyl trafficking, […]