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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Tuesday that Mexican drug trafficker Ovidio Guzman, son Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman“will not be the last” extradited in the fight against fentanyl.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Tuesday that Mexican drug trafficker Ovidio Guzman, son Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman“will not be the last” extradited in the fight against fentanyl.
Merrick Garland He made these statements at a meeting with families of people who died from fentanyl overdoses, held at the headquarters of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Arlington (Virginia).
“Two weeks ago we extradited Ovidio Guzman Lopez, leader Sinaloa Cartel. He is the son of the infamous Chapo and one of a dozen cartel leaders we have extradited to the United States. It won’t be the last,” he said to applause.
Garland warned that the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the DEA are working “to hold accountable those who endanger” United States citizens with “deadly drugs“.
Ovidio Guzmanarrested in Mexico last January, was extradited to the United States on September 15 and jailed in Chicago, where he awaits trial for drug trafficking.
The US government has also asked Mexico to seize and extradite the other children of Chapo, who is serving a life sentence in the United States. Ivan Archivaldo GuzmanJesus Alfredo Guzman and Joaquin Guzman.
Garland condemned the Sinaloa cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are “fuelling an epidemic” of fentanyl in the United States, where more than 70,000 people died from overdoses of the synthetic opioid last year alone.
The cartels buy chemicals from China that they use to make fentanyl, which they sell in the U.S. from clandestine laboratories in Mexico, Garland said.
The DEA has seized more than 55 million pills this year. fentanyla drug 50 times more powerful than heroin.
The attorney general’s voice broke as he told the story of a Missouri man who died from a fentanyl-laced drug, leaving behind a 2-year-old son.
“We do the work for them. To honor their memory,” Garland said of those who died from fentanyl.
For his part, the director DEAAnne Milgram accused Mexican cartels of being “responsible for the devastation” suffered by the United States and warned that Joe Biden government “he can’t even deal with one more death” due to drugs.
Milgram further explained that the United States is not only pursuing drug lords but also to everyone involved in supply chains.
For this reason, he explained that two Chinese nationals were arrested for working for a company that sells chemicals used to produce fentanyl.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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