The United States Government offers a five million dollar reward for the capture of the four children of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The sum applies to each of those indicated.
The Department of State reports this reward for anyone who collaborates with information that leads to the arrest or conviction of the four sons of the capo, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Ovidio Guzmán López (recently arrested by the Mexican authorities), Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Joaquín Guzmán López.
Brother of ‘El Chapo’
The United States accused Aureliano Guzmán Loera, brother of “El Chapo” of violating drug laws, and offered five million dollars for information leading to his capture, the State Department reported.
Aureliano Guzmán Loera, brother of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is accused of association to distribute marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl.
One of the Justice Department’s indictments concerns trafficking in fentanyl, responsible for more than 63 percent of the 96,779 drug overdose deaths in the United States between March 2020 and 2021.
Guzmán Loera, alias “El Guano”, was linked in 2016 to an attack that occurred in Culiacán, which left soldiers dead.
Emma Colonel
The wife of “El Chapo”, Emma Coronel Aispuro, was sentenced at the end of 2021 to 3 years in prison for having supported the Sinaloa Cartel to traffic drugs to that country.
In June of that year, Coronel Aispuro pleaded guilty to three crimes: illicit association to traffic cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and marijuana; money laundering, and participation in property transactions belonging to a drug trafficker.
Prosecutors say that Coronel Aispuro benefited financially from her husband’s criminal activities. Colonel Aispuro has been in jail since she was arrested in February 2021 at Dulles Airport in Virginia.
As part of his plea agreement with prosecutors, Coronel admitted to acting as a messenger between Guzmán and other members of the Sinaloa cartel while he was held in Mexico’s Altiplano prison following his 2014 arrest in the United States.
Guzmán used those communications to plan his 2015 escape from prison, north of Toluca, through an underground tunnel built by the cartel that led to his cell’s shower room.
Joaquin Guzman Loera, ‘El Chapo’
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was sentenced in 2019 to life imprisonment by a United States federal court, on drug trafficking charges. He is currently being held at the ADX Florence prison, nicknamed the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” located about 185 kilometers south of Denver.
These inmates are typically confined for 23 hours a day in solitary cells, each with a narrow window just over four feet high and angled upward so that only the sky can be seen.
The Department of Justice offered a reward of 5 million dollars for any information that would help capture the drug trafficker and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Guzmán, who was being held in a Ciudad Juárez prison, was extradited to the United States in January 2017. The capo was recaptured on January 8, 2016 in his native state of Sinaloa after the controversial escape that he starred in on July 11, 2015 from the Altiplano prison, in the State of Mexico.
