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San Diego (USA).- The United States Department of Justice filed this Tuesday in a San Diego (California) court charges of narco-terrorism against two leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, which is the first time that terrorism charges linked to drug trafficking have been filed in the country.
The accused are Pedro Inzunza Noriega and his son Pedro Inzunza Coronel, accused of having trafficked tons of drugs to the United States.
Federal prosecutor Adam Gordon highlighted the historic indictment in a press conference. “Today marks the first time charges have been brought against leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel for narco-terrorism and narco-terrorism materials, in connection with trafficking massive quantities of fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin.”
The prosecution considers the narcotics that the Sinaloa cartel traffics to the United States as "materials for committing narcoterrorism."
The charges are based on the executive order of the U.S. president, Donald Trump, who last February designated several Mexican drug cartels, including the Sinaloa cartel, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Gordon said that to combat cartels as terrorist organizations, from the day he was appointed as prosecutor for the Southern District of California, last April 11, he formed a Narcoterrorism Unit that collaborated in the investigation and formulation of the charges filed today.
The official assured that from now on drug trafficking leaders will face "a hunt" from both their friends and their enemies.
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“We are going to pursue them until they finally face their destiny in a federal court in Southern California,” the official stated.
The two defendants, Pedro Inzunza Noriega, known as Sagitario, and Pedro Inzunza Coronel, nicknamed El Pichón, began trafficking cocaine from Colombia to the United States decades ago, according to court documents.
The indictment says that more recently they both engaged in the trafficking of fentanyl and synthetic drugs.
