El Chapo’s Sons Ripped Enemies’ Muscles Out With Corkscrews, Fed Them To Tigers: Feds

Federal law enforcement officials revealed in new court documents some of the sadistic acts of violence that the four sons of former Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman inflicted on anyone who got in their way.

The four sons — Ivan Guzman Salazar, 40, Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 37, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 36, and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33 — who are known collectively as the Chapitos, were indicted by the Department of Justice last week with multiple crimes, including Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances; Continuing Criminal Enterprise; Conspiracy to Import Controlled Substances; Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances for Purpose of Unlawful Importation; Distribution of a Controlled Substance; Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering; Use and Possession of a Firearm During a Drug Trafficking Crime.

Only one of the sons, Ovidio, is in custody, but he has yet to be extradited to the United States. The other three brothers remain on the run.

Prosecutors say that the brothers have their enemies tortured to get information out of them, and that after they have what they need, the victims are sometimes fed “alive to tigers” that the brothers keep as pets on their ranches. One victim was tortured for two hours, having their muscles ripped out with a corkscrew and having hot chilies placed in their open wounds and nose, prosecutors say.

The brothers “use their powerful security apparatus to demolish unsupportive businesses, capture contested territory, intimidate civilians, and attack law enforcement.”

The brothers “lead the most powerful faction of the Cartel and the largest, most violent, and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world.”

The indictment describes in detail how the brothers import the precursor chemicals to make fentanyl from communist China into Mexico and then send them to clandestine labs in Mexico, some of which are large-scale facilities located underground, where the chemicals are manufactured into fentanyl.

“The Chapitos’ sicarios comprise a security apparatus built to commit acts of violence in order to protect the Chapitos’ operation and its leaders, territory, labs, trafficking routes, and money,” the indictment said. “These sicarios regularly use military-grade weapons, including machineguns, to perpetrate violence, including murder, torture, and kidnapping.”

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The cartel is the most dominant drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere and has the largest international operations of any drug trafficking organization in the world, operating in 45 countries.