US Charges El Chapo's Sons and Sinaloa Cartel Members in Fentanyl Trafficking Operation

The US Justice Department has charged 28 members and associates of the Sinaloa Cartel, including three sons of former drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, with orchestrating a transnational fentanyl trafficking operation into the United States. The accused, part of the "Chapitos" network, allegedly facilitated the purchase of precursor chemicals of fentanyl from China, manufactured the deadly drug in Mexico, and then worked to smuggle the substance into the US. Four Chinese nationals and one Guatemalan national were charged with supplying fentanyl ingredients to the cartel.