Ice cream arrests Sinaloa Cartel Member with weapons, ammunition: Sources


A member of the Sinaloa cartel was arrested in Texas by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) During the weekend and three guns, two pistols and more than 3,000 rounds were wearing ammunition, Sources Fox News say.

The individual – who comes from Mexico – was taken into custody in El Paso, the sources added. Ice Operations resulted in the US last weekend In more than 1,000 arrests.

The Head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said last year that the US is confronted with the “most dangerous and fatal drug crisis” in its history with fentanyl and methamphetamine that flows across the border – and that the “Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels on the Heart of this crisis ”

“They operate clandestine laboratories in Mexico where they produce these medicines and then use their enormous distribution networks to transport the medicines to the United States,” wrote DEA manager Anne Milgram in her desk Annual assessment of national drug threat.

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Weapons and ammunition found during ice arrestation

Pistols, guns and ammunition found in the weekend after the ICE arrest of a Sinaloa cartel member in El Paso, Texas, say sources.

“The Sinaloa cartel also uses border tunnels to cross drugs to the United States unnoticed,” she added. “Most tunnels are not built by the cartel, but are part of the sewer and water systems of the border cities.”

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Ice Operation in Chicago

Ice agents knock on the door of a home during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday 26 January. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty images)

Last week, alleged Sinaloa cartel cell leader Octavio Leal-Hernandez, who is “considered responsible for trading large amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marihuana in the United States from Mexico,” went into a non-guilty plea During a federal court After his extradition from Mexico, the office of the American lawyers for the southern district of California said.

The arrest of the alleged Sinaloa member comes in El Paso because there are also reports that the Trump administration is pushing ice Increase the number of arrests per day from a few hundred to between at least 1,200 to 1500 people.

Ice agent in Chicago

An ice agent awaits in a vehicle during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, ill., On Sunday. (Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty images)

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With reference to four sources that spoke on condition of anonymity about an alleged internal call with ice officers on Saturday, the Washington Post reported for the first time about the new objective, in which the 1,200 to 1500 daily goals were categorized as “quota”, although a spokesman Fox News of the Department of Homeland Security told: “Goals are the right phrasing.”

Danielle Wallace from Fox News has contributed to this report.