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Los Chapitos Indictment Reveals Torture Techniques & Victims

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat


According to the recent indictment against Los Chapitos; rival drug traffickers, law enforcement officers, and members allied with other factions were among those interrogated and tortured at the Navolato, Sinaloa, ranch owned by Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar. 

Some of their victims were "fed dead or alive to tigers," according to the indictment recently released by the U.S. Justice Department.

The Justice Department accused the cartel members of running "the largest, most violent, and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world." U.S. prosecutors also detailed the brutal methods of torture and executions used by the cartel to extend their power and intimidate enemies.


Torture Techniques

At the ranch of Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar, "Los Ninis" would bring in for interrogation individuals they captured, including rival traffickers, workers loyal to other factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, and officials who refused to facilitate their operations. Once the information was obtained from these captives, typically through torture, these individuals were killed - either by or at the direction of Los Chapitos themselves. 

Victims were kidnapped, waterboarded, and/or electrocuted, and other torture methods even included a PGR agent being repeatedly stabbed with a corkscrew and hot chili peppers smushed into his wounds. 

The indictment goes on to allege that El Chapo's sons used electrocution and waterboarding to torture members of rival drug cartels as well as associates who refused to pay debts.


While many of these victims were shot, others were fed dead or alive to tigers belonging to Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán Sálazar, "Alfredo," the defendants, who raised and kept the tigers at their ranches as pets.

Fentanyl "Testing"

“Two of the defendants tested the potency of the cartel's fentanyl on individuals who were tied down,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “In another instance, those defendants experimented on a woman they had been ordered to shoot. Instead, they injected her repeatedly with fentanyl until she overdosed and died.”

Another time, Garland said, “after an addict died testing a batch of the cartel’s fentanyl, one of the defendants sent the batch to the United States anyway.”

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said that the agency decided to take action against Los Chapitos because they are the biggest outfit in the game. In the spring of 2022, Ovidio Guzmán stated that he was working to centralize all fentanyl manufacturing in Sinaloa, effectively establishing a monopoly for the Cartel over the fentanyl market in Mexico. As part of that effort, the Cartel is trying to make the most potent fentanyl and sell it in the United States at the lowest price.

“We decided to proactively target the criminal network that is most responsible for the fentanyl flooding our communities,” Milgram said. “We looked at our data and the answer was clear. Most of the fentanyl in the United States comes from the Sinaloa cartel.”

Captured Los Zetas

Starting around 2014, the three charged brothers began manufacturing fentanyl at a clandestine laboratory in Durango, Mexico that had previously been used to produce methamphetamine.

In May 2017, three members of the rival Los Zetas Cartel were captured by the defendants in the mountains near the border between Sinaloa and Durango.

On the orders of Los Chapitos, members of Los Ninis tortured the victims using electrocution to gain information about Los Zetas alliances with other rival cartels. At this time, BLO and Damaso Lopez were at war with Los Chapitos following the extradition of their father "El Chapo".

On May 27, 2017, Ivan shot the Los Zetas victims and they were fed to the tigers kept on the ranch.

Kidnapped & Tortured PGR Agents

Federal prosecutors alleged that two of El Chapo's sons, Ivan and Jesus Alfredo, were involved in the capture, torture, and murder of two Mexican federal law enforcement officers in 2017. 

One of the PGR officers was kidnapped as he was leaving the Culiacan airport in his car and interrogated before being shot in the head the following day by Ivan and Jesus Alfredo. 

"Los Ninis" kidnapped the other officer and also brought him to the Navolato ranch owned by Ivan. "For approximately two hours, members of Los Ninis tortured Victim-5 by inserting a corkscrew into Victim 5's muscles, ripping it out of his muscles, and placing hot chiles in his open wounds and nose" before being shot dead by Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar, the indictment alleges.

That officer was tortured in front of El Chapo's sons by cartel members of "Los Ninis" including "El Nini" and "Panu." Nestor Isidro Perez Salas, "El Nini" and his subordinate Jorge Humberto Figueroa Benitez "El 27" are leaders of the "Los Ninis" security group and fentanyl operations working for Oscar Noe Medina Gonzalez, also known as "Panu" who controls their security for the state of Mexico.

That victim and his fellow slain officer were then dumped near a motel off Mexican Federal Highway 15 outside Navolato, near the ranch, federal prosecutors said. It was revealed during the SEDENA leaks that Los Chapitos had infiltrated the Sinaloa State Police.

Control of Culiacan

In Culiacan and many other parts of Sinaloa, the Cartel exerts control through the Chapitos and even requires the payment of "taxes," not only for permission to traffic drugs other than fentanyl, but also on goods like beer, toilet paper, and electronics. Firearms are carried openly in the city by traffickers and sicarios loyal to Los Chapitos but prohibited for individuals who are not affiliated with them.

Of the three of "El Chapo's" sons charged, only Ovidio Guzmán López has been captured. He was arrested in January in Sinaloa, Culiacan.

"Death and destruction are central to their whole operation," DEA chief Anne Milgram Milgram said Friday, calling the Chapitos and the global network they operate "a network that fuels violence and death on both sides of the border."

Sources DOJ, VICE, Riodoce

46 comments:

  1. These dudes are walking dead men. Once the DOJ wants you that much publicly, it's only a matter of time.

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    1. Yeah and long before the DEA bruhaa has died down their replacememts are doing exactly the same thing and X billion USD in federal tax funding later the cycle repeats.

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    2. Idk i don’t understand if they are feeding ppl to their tigers why throw anybody’s out to be found? I’m sure they have pigs also that can devour a human body. So why not feed all Victims to the animals and keep things quiet. They can hid signs of torturing ppl and keep from getting the attention of bodies being found. Idk a lot of there information it just doesn’t make sense. Im not saying there innocent of course not but why not just stay with truth instead of creating legends.

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    3. And what about the bones. Tigers and lions don’t eat bones. Pig and hogs do but the cats don’t. So you’re feeding them ppl then have to go inside and collect and remove all of the evidence of bones?

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  2. When they killed those zetas members, their cartel was already falling apart too at that time

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    1. Something tells me they weren’t even Zetas; likely were BLO guys… 🦉

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    2. 9:46; Really? And on what basis does this fantasy derive from?

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  3. And to think they were once good kids.

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    1. They did not have a chance
      to avoid recruitment. Their only
      choice is to die and have their families persecuted, flee to Lost Estados Unidosm or join a cartel. Well, they could also become a Catholic priest but even
      that might not protect them

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  4. EL Panu has higher rank than 09 El Nini ?

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    1. All of them work for el panu, el panu is in charge of the operations of the whole cartel and only reports to Ivan and Alfredo

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    2. Nini le reporta al Panu

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  5. At Chapo's trial they had a similar witnesses, but the Justice Department must have high cooperators, who are really motivated to talk

    This must be the kind of thing where those guys are flying out of Colom or somewhere, and the federal agents just take them aside, and say this is what we want from you

    Would assume it's inner circle only on Ivan's ranch, or maybe high level distributors were present, like the Twins used to be.

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  6. El CDS mantiene todo tranquilo y no se mete con inocentes ni viola niñas y son unos angeles! Dichos de mama vergas de los chaputitos y mayatitos 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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  7. Fuckk they are probably on sicario 006 tracks .. se la quieren meter a Sinaloa

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  8. Que apenas pusieron a ivan en el 3rcer mas buscado de la DEA segun un reported que esta publicado en la revi PROCeso

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  9. El panu and El nini are done the security of the operation and the total security of the Brothers Where in their hands the way the DEA infiltrated All the way to the bosses means they can't be trusted for the job and when you no longer useful you become a liability to the Bosses it's just a matter of time before IVAN replaces the whole organization or risk annihilation of the whole Guzman family the pressure for now is not gone be intense since AMLO is in power but I'm betting they would live till change of president if ovidio Guzman is extradited

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    1. The Chapitos are done not just the security.

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  10. Chaputos are doneski bro

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  11. I have a feeling there star witnesses is Emma Cara De Plastico Corronel. Seems like there days are numbered. Hopefully they make an example put of the punks. They were way outa control especially taxing on alcohol sales. No mamen

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    1. Someone very close to them is feeding American authorities a lot of info.

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    2. They have the pegasus software, as soon something gets digital, its known to the government on both sides of the border.
      US pressure is increasing, despite what AMLO says and they will fall at some point. Stuff sold to the north was never considered a problem for the mex.gob. but with increased use of meth and fent in mexico things get hot.

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    3. Meth and fent are a big driver of the violence we see. Especially the hyper violent squads anthrax , grupo elite, rusos = meth violence

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  12. When Usa finds them they should just drone strike them save alot of effort.

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  13. Is this Ivan’s Tiger or just a random picture of a Tiger?

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    1. I wonder the same. There's some videos out there of Nini's white tiger and some footage of Ivan's lion cub inside his bathroom..

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  14. Good article Socalj

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    1. Yes bro they can say whatever the fuck they want,fuck chapos either way more rats

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  16. CARTEL DE LOS SAPOS

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  17. The king of cocaine and fentanyl

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    1. King of going down more like it. Time and time again history has shown us fathers make the fortunes and the sons lose the fortunes.

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    2. Should've just stuck to the perico

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  18. Once the US singles you out... Your pretty much done

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  19. Damaso and Mini Lic would have been able to provide a lot of the foundational structure from 2014-2017

    But they weren’t on those ranches after 2016, and I doubt Emma has ever been to those places especially after 2016

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    1. If fentanyl is as profitable as the reports suggest surely they can afford some new ranches with better security

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    2. Ivan is worth 14 billion, more successful than his dad

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    3. If I had his fentanyl cash flow I would have construction crews on standby building me ranches lol

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  20. Imagine raising your kids to be like this.

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  21. For all you Cartel Nuthuggers heres your fake idols, marked evil men for the rest of their miserable lives!!!

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  22. If your working with cds be careful they about to start turning in folks, wholesalers to customers!! Theyve done it before theyll do it again!!!🐀

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  23. The feds are everywhere here in Phx I wonder if had anything to do with E1 ?

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  24. This guys are the biggest rats and or frogs in the game 🐭🐸

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  25. Why is nobody talking about chapos son also named Joaquin Guzman Lopez ? He was murdered in wa state , b local officials and its why he wasn't most recently indicted

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    1. Joaquin is not on this particular indictment but that doesn't mean he's not on any other secret or not-secret indictment. I'm pretty sure he hasn't been murdered and lives in Sinaloa like the rest of them. You might be confusing him with Edgar Guzman Lopez who was murdered in 2008. Not in wa state though, I highly doubt anyone with their profile would step foot in US soil.

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