$10M Reward: Cartel Leader’s Sons – Tiger Feeder Hunt
The U.S. government is aggressively targeting the Sinaloa Cartel, offering a $10 million reward for facts leading to the arrest of El Chapo’s sons, key players in the fentanyl trafficking operations. The focus is on disrupting the “Chapitos” faction, identified as the primary source of this deadly drug entering the United States. Sanctions are in place, adn investigations continue into their alleged involvement in activities, including extortion and money laundering.Read the full story on news Directory 3 for an in-depth report, including the tools the U.S. utilizes to break the cartel. Discover what’s next …
US Sanctions El Chapo sons Over Fentanyl Trafficking,Offers Reward
Updated June 10,2025
The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on two sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the imprisoned leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, and is offering rewards up to $10 million for information leading to their arrest or conviction. Archivaldo Ivan Guzman Salazar and Jesus Alfredo guzman Salazar, believed to be in Mexico, are the targets of these actions.
The Treasury Department’s sanctions target the “Chapitos,” or little Chapos, a Sinaloa cartel faction identified as a primary source of fentanyl trafficking into the United States.The sanctions also extend to a regional network of Chapitos associates and businesses in Mazatlan, Mexico, allegedly involved in drug trafficking, extortion, and money laundering.
Other sons of Guzman, Joaquin Guzman Lopez and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, are currently incarcerated in the United States. Federal prosecutors in Chicago have stated they will not seek the death penalty for Joaquin Guzman Lopez if he is convicted.
According to court documents unsealed in 2023, the Chapitos and their associates have been accused of torturing rivals, using methods such as corkscrews, electrocution, and hot chiles. Some victims were allegedly fed to tigers, either dead or alive.
“Los Chapitos is a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa cartel at the forefront of fentanyl trafficking into the United States,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
david Saucedo, a Mexican security analyst, noted that offering financial rewards and witness protection has become a key tool for the U.S. government. He said that such payouts have provided up to 20% of the information obtained by U.S. law enforcement in major cases against cartel leaders.
“People inside the criminal organization betray their leaders and turn into informants,” saucedo said. “It’s this money, this ambition that authorities in the United States are using to break apart narcotrafficking organizations in Mexico.”
The Sinaloa Cartel, dating back to the 1970s, is Mexico’s oldest criminal group. Fentanyl production has become one of their most profitable ventures, though it is indeed blamed for tens of thousands of overdose deaths annually in the U.S. The trump governance previously labeled the Sinaloa cartel a foreign terrorist organization.
In related news, Jorge Humberto Perez Cazares, 41, a Mexican national, received a sentence of over 19 years in prison for leading an international drug trafficking conspiracy.The Justice Department reported that Perez cazares “used violence to protect his narcotics shipments and worked with a close affiliate of the co-leader of the Sinaloa cartel.”
What’s next
U.S. authorities are expected to continue targeting key members and networks within the Sinaloa cartel to disrupt fentanyl trafficking and other criminal activities.