Prosecutors claim that Los Chapitos also tested illicit fentanyl produced by the Sinaloa Cartel on humans in a slew of new charges.
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By Keegan Hamilton
Nathaniel Janowitz
By Nathaniel Janowitz
EL CHAPO'S SONS JESUS ALFREDO GUZMÁN SALAZAR, IVÁN ARCHIVALDO GUZMÁN AND OVIDIO GUZMÁN LÓPEZ. PHOTOS: DEA
When the Sinaloa Cartel cooks up a batch of fentanyl at a clandestine lab in Mexico, they sometimes test the drugs before shipping them north to customers in the United States. And according to prosecutors in the U.S, those experiments can be gruesome.
“Two of the defendants tested the potency of the cartel's fentanyl on individuals who were tied down,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland, revealing a slew of new charges on Friday against the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, collectively known as Los Chapitos, and their cartel henchmen. “In another instance, those defendants experimented on a woman they had been ordered to shoot. Instead, they injected her repeatedly with fentanyl until she overdosed and died.”
The cartel hitmen, Garland said, also “fed some of their victims dead and alive to two tigers belonging to the Chapitos.”
Garland announced new federal indictments against Los Chapitos and more than 20 alleged collaborators around the world, claiming the group “is largely responsible for the surge of fentanyl into the United States over the last eight years.”
Another time, Garland said, “after an addict died testing a batch of the cartel’s fentanyl, one of the defendants sent the batch to the United States anyway.”
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