US targets Sinaloa cartel leaders after El Mencho killing in Mexico

The United States is offering rewards of up to $5 cardinal each for accusation starring to the apprehension and/or condemnation of Sinaloa Cartel Tijuana Plaza bosses René Arzate-García, aka “La Rana,” and his brother, Alfonso Arzate-García, aka “Aquiles.”

The manhunt to bring the Arzate-García brothers to justness is successful coordination with the San Diego Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Office for the Southern District of California.

The siblings, according to the DEA, person controlled the Tijuana Plaza for the Sinaloa Cartel for the past 15 years, “maintaining authorization done violence, strategical alliances, and heavy section influence, including governmental and constabulary corruption.”

They are categorized among cardinal figures trafficking deadly illicit fentanyl into the U.S. and sustaining cartel operations successful Tijuana, the astir populous metropolis of the Mexican authorities of Baja California.

Last year, the Trump medication designated the Sinaloa Cartel arsenic some a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), and classified fentanyl arsenic a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

In 2014, the Arzate-García brothers were charged successful the Southern District of California with cause trafficking offenses successful abstracted indictments and person been fugitives since then.

On August 9, 2023, the duo was designated by the Department of the...