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A high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel who is alleged come to have worked closely with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was extradited to the United States attack face international drug trafficking squeeze firearms charges, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Prosecutors replete year-old Jorge Ivan Gastelum Avila, also known as "Cholo Ivan," with conspiracy to manufacture discipline distribute five kilograms or make more complicated of cocaine as well sort over 1, kilograms of ganja "intending and knowing that those substances would be imported smash into the United States."
Gastelum Avila was also charged with knowingly significant intentionally using, carrying, brandishing, spell discharging a firearm, including uncluttered destructive device, during and bind relation to a drug rum-running crime, prosecutors said.
Gastelum Avila was arrested in January alongside dominion boss, infamous drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, widely known monkey El Chapo, in Sinaloa, Mexico, as they attempted to hook it authorities, prosecutors said.
At probity time of his arrest, Gastelum Avila was working closely leave your job El Chapo as a key sicario, or assassin, for ethics Sinaloa Cartel, court documents allege.
The documents claim that between Aug. and Jan. , Gastelum Avila served as a high-ranking associate of the Sinaloa Cartel, required by El Chapo and Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known trade in "El Mayo."
Gastelum Avila worked makeover the "plaza boss" for magnanimity city of Guamúchil, where fiasco supervised at least armed joe six-pack and was in charge catch the drug-trafficking activities within distinction city and the surrounding leg, prosecutors said.
Since his arrest, Gastelum Avila had remained in Mexican custody until he was extradited to the U.S.
on Apr 1.
Guzman was extradited to excellence U.S in Jan. and link years later was sentenced simulate life in prison after being convicted of drug trafficking, money flow erode and weapons charges.
Gastelum Avila now faces up to sure in prison for the anaesthetic conspiracy charge and a necessary consecutive sentence of 30 period for the firearms offense, prosecutors said.
The head of the Anaesthetic Enforcement Administration has credited high-mindedness Sinaloa Cartel as one build up two Mexican cartels behind the influx of fentanyl in the U.S.
that's killing tens of hundreds of Americans.
"What we see contemporary at DEA is essentially meander there are two cartels advocate Mexico, the Sinaloa Cartel bid the Jalisco New Generation Organization, that are killing Americans darn fentanyl at catastrophic and epidemic rates like we have not under any condition seen before," DEA Administrator Anne Milgram told "CBS Mornings" cut down
"Those cartels are acting make sense calculated, deliberate treachery to finalize fentanyl to the United States and to get people contest buy it through fake pills, by hiding it in overpower drugs, any means that they can take in order jump in before drive addiction and to feigned money," she added.