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The Trump management is sanctioning El Chapo’s kids and Los Chapitos – a fentanyl trafficking faction of the violent Sinaloa cartel, Fox News Digital has realized.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Los Chapitos, which controls laboratories chargeable for introducing fentanyl in counterfeit drugs manufactured through the Sinaloa cartel and trafficked to the United States.
Gunmen related to the Sinaloa cartel had been concerned within the Oct. 18, 2024, killing of U.S. Marine veteran Nicholas Quets in Sonora, Mexico.
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Nicholas Douglas Quets got here from a robust miliary background. (Quets Family )
Additionally, the Treasury Department designated the 2 sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera: Archivaldo Ivan Guzman Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar.
“Los Chapitos is a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa cartel at the forefront of fentanyl trafficking in the United States,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mentioned Monday. “At the Department of the Treasury, we are executing on President Trump’s mandate to completely eliminate drug cartels and take on violent leaders like ‘El Chapo’s’ children.”
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks throughout a briefing with press secretary Karoline Leavitt on the White House, April 29, 2025. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)
Bessent added that the Treasury Department is “maximizing all available tools to stop the fentanyl crisis and help save lives.”
The Treasury Department on Monday additionally sanctioned a regional community of Los Chapitos friends and companies primarily based in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, that allegedly engages in drug monitoring, extortion, kidnapping and cash laundering.
The Treasury Department coordinated with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to take the motion Monday.
Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine veteran who labored for Pima County, Arizona, on water reclamation tasks, was once shot and killed alongside the Caborca-Altar Highway in northern Mexico on Oct. 18, 2024.
Bundles of blue drugs containing fentanyl intercepted on the border. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Quets’ father, Doug, who served twenty years within the U.S. Army and some other twenty years in federal regulation enforcement, expressed his circle of relatives’s “deep and enduring gratitude to President Trump and his entire Cabinet for unwaveringly using every instrument of national power in the pursuit of justice for our beloved Nicholas.”
“Nicholas Quets was an innocent American and proud U.S. Marine veteran whose bright future was stolen on October 18, 2024, when he was ambushed just south of the U.S. border by a heavily armed cell of the Sinaloa cartel,” Quets mentioned in a commentary. “Cowards in cartel insignia – more than two dozen strong – pursued Nicholas and fatally shot him in the back, through the heart, during a failed carjacking, only after confirming his status as an American.”
Quets added: “This was not just murder – it was a deliberate act of terror against a known American citizen.”
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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is escorted through infantrymen in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016. (Tomas Bravo/File Photo/Reuters)
Quets mentioned the Treasury Department’s designation of the Sinaloa cartel as a overseas 15 may organization was once a “vital first step in honoring Nicholas’ memory and protecting other Americans from suffering similar tragedies.”
“Secretary Bessent’s decisive action to target the Sinaloa cartel’s financial networks strikes at the heart of this transnational threat,” Quets mentioned. “Disrupting their ability to move money, launder profits and bribe officials is essential to dismantling this criminal empire.”
