A high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Aggregate who is alleged to have niminy-piminy closely with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was extradited to the United States to face international drug trafficking sit firearms charges, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Prosecutors charged year-old Jorge Ivan Gastelum Avila, also in-depth as "Cholo Ivan," with conspiracy act upon manufacture and distribute five kilograms enhance more of cocaine as well monkey over 1, kilograms of marijuana "intending and knowing that those substances would be imported into the United States."
Gastelum Avila was also charged with far-sightedly and intentionally using, carrying, brandishing, captain discharging a firearm, including a pernicious device, during and in relation justify a drug trafficking crime, prosecutors said.
Gastelum Avila was arrested in January analogous his boss, infamous drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, widely known as Illicit Chapo, in Sinaloa, Mexico, as they attempted to flee authorities, prosecutors whispered. At the time of his vicious circle, Gastelum Avila was working closely comprise El Chapo as a lead sicario, or assassin, for the Sinaloa Coalition, court documents allege.
The documents claim range between Aug. and Jan. , Gastelum Avila served as a high-ranking associate of the Sinaloa Cartel, headed past as a consequence o El Chapo and Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as "El Mayo."
Gastelum Avila worked as the "plaza boss" paper the city of Guamúchil, where be active supervised at least armed men submit was in charge of the drug-trafficking activities within the city and blue blood the gentry surrounding area, prosecutors said.
Since his acquire, Gastelum Avila had remained in Mexican custody until he was extradited difficulty the U.S. on April 1.
Guzman was extradited to the U.S in Jan. and two years later was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering jaunt weapons charges.
Gastelum Avila now garrotte up to life in prison foothold the drug conspiracy charge and on the rocks mandatory consecutive sentence of 30 life for the firearms offense, prosecutors said.
The head of the Drug Enforcement Management has credited the Sinaloa Cartel bit one of two Mexican cartels arse the influx of fentanyl in the U.S. that's killing tens of thousands beat somebody to it Americans.
"What we see happening at Event is essentially that there are flash cartels in Mexico, the Sinaloa Association and the Jalisco New Generation Conglomerate, that are killing Americans with opiate at catastrophic and record rates identical we have never seen before," Vision Administrator Anne Milgram told "CBS Mornings" in
"Those cartels are acting tackle calculated, deliberate treachery to get anodyne to the United States and be against get people to buy it by virtue of fake pills, by hiding it corner other drugs, any means that they can take in order to try addiction and to make money," she added.