It comes just two days after the wife of 'El Chapo' was released from a federal prison in Texas after serving a three-year sentence for helping to run her husband's drug operation.
/ CBS/AP, to the United States on Friday to face drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
January's arrest set off similar violence that killed 30 people in Culiacán, including 10 military personnel. An image from video provided by the Mexican government shows Ovidio Guzmán López at the moment of his detention, in Culiacán, Mexico, in October 2019. Mexican security forces were forced to release the son of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin"El Chapo" Guzmán that day after his gunmen shot up the city..The capture came just days before President Biden visited Mexico for bilateral talks followed by the North American Leaders' Summit.
The indictment unsealed in Manhattan said their goal was to produce huge quantities of fentanyl and sell it at the lowest price. Fentanyl is so cheap to make that the cartel reaps immense profits even wholesaling the drug at 50 cents per pill, prosecutors said.