Criminals Linked to Sinaloa Cartel Arrested in Spain Posted on by Allan Wall
In a recent article I reported on criminals linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel arrested in California.
Now some have been arrested across the pond in Spain, Mexico’s madre patria.
From CBS:
“Spain has arrested 14 people suspected of links to the powerful Mexican Sinaloa cartel as part of a kidnapping and murder probe, police said Sunday [November 17th]. The ring busted by Spanish investigators was mainly made up of Mexican nationals. It was connected to the Sinaloa drug cartel, which is based in northwestern Mexico and has been shaken by weeks of gang infighting.”
“ ‘The dismantled criminal network, which is based in Catalonia, is believed to be involved in the kidnapping and death of a man whose body was found in a wooded area’ in the northeastern Spanish region in August, police said in a statement. The victim, whose nationality was not specified, allegedly worked with the gang and ‘had come from Italy for a meeting with several chiefs.’ The victim’s family in Kosovo reported his disappearance to the police after he was abducted between late May and June. The family received a 240,000-euro ransom request ($253,000) and a total of $32,000 was paid in cryptocurrency.”
“The 14 detained suspects were allegedly involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, kidnapping and murder, the statement also said. The detainees, 11 men and 3 women, are between 30 and 70 years old. The Catalonia-based ring received shipments from Mexico containing clothes soaked with methamphetamine, which they then extracted in a Spanish lab, police added.”
The Sinaloa cartel has a long reach.
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