Feds try to cut down El Chapo's family tree to cut off Chicago's drug flow

Source NBC Local
Original Load Date April 15, 2026, 11 p.m.
Last Updated April 15, 2026, 11 p.m.
Original URL https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/feds-try-to-cut-down-el-chapos-family-tree-to-cut-off-chicagos-drug-flow/3923344/

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The Sinaloa Cartel has owned and operated Chicago's primary illegal drug franchise for decades. With drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in the Colorado Supermax prison, two of his sons run the criminal organization from Mexico while under indictment here in Chicago. And now, the government is offe...