Justice Department Announces Charges Against Sinaloa Cartel's Global Operation

"Today, the Justice Department is announcing significant enforcement actions against the largest, most violent, and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world - run by the Sinaloa Cartel, and fueled by Chinese precursor chemical and pharmaceutical companies." -Attorney General Merrick B. Garland

"Families and communities across our country are being devastated by the fentanyl epidemic. Today's actions demonstrate the comprehensive approach the Justice Department is taking to disrupt fentanyl trafficking and save American lives." -Attorney General Merrick B. Garland

"Just as we have gone on offense against terrorists and cyber criminals around the globe, the Department is now waging a relentless campaign to disrupt the production and trafficking of fentanyl - before it can reach its victims." -Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco

"Over the last year and a half, the DEA proactively infiltrated the Sinaloa Cartel and the Chapitos network, obtained unprecedented access to the organization's highest levels, and followed them across the world." -DEA Administrator Anne Milgram

"Fentanyl doesn't care about who you are, what you do, what you believe, who you love, or who you might be leaving behind. It doesn't care if your first time using it is your last time...this drug is designed to destroy and devastate, and just like that it can take you." -U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams

"We will continue to aggressively investigate and prosecute individuals from the leaders of the cartel down to the local trafficking organizations who are flooding Chicago with illicit drugs and reaping profit from the destruction that they are inflicting on our communities." -U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Morris O. Pasqual