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US Offers $5m Rewards For Information On Drug Traffickers

US authorities on Friday announced rewards of up to $5m each for information that will help authorities capture and convict four Mexican drug cartel leaders.

Gatekeepers News reports that the wanted drug cartel leaders include Aureliano Guzman-Loera, the brother of imprisoned capo Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

Guzman-Loera and three brothers from the Salgueiro-Nevarez family were indicted in the United States of conspiring to traffic marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl.

In a statement on Friday, the US State Department spokesman Ned Price said the quartet has been “charged in US indictments for violation of US drug laws, to include international conspiracies to distribute marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl.”

The highly dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl is “responsible for more than 63 percent of the 96,779 drug overdose deaths in the United States between March 2020 and 2021,” Price added.

Gatekeepers News reports that the four men operate under the umbrella of the federation of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficking groups, which El Chapo led until his most recent capture and imprisonment in 2016.

Fehintola Ambali-Salam

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