Sinaloa in a sentence

A murder victim in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa State and a stronghold of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Cristobal Castaneda, Sinaloa’s undersecretary for public security, told a press conference that police received reports of gunshots at 4:55 a.m. local time (1055 GMT) in an events hall in Culiacan, the capital city of Sinaloa.

The Sinaloa cartel is best understood as a confederation of factions, and the elements in Sinaloa state appear to have regained some stability, though violence in the state remains high.

A passenger waits in an empty terminal at the airport while flights are suspended due to drug cartel-related violence in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Friday, Jan.

A surge in overdose deaths in the US, fuelled by the synthetic opioid fentanyl, has led to increased pressure on Mexico to combat the organisations – such as the Sinaloa Cartel – responsible for producing and shipping the drug.

Banners appeared Monday in northern Mexico purportedly signed by a faction of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel claiming that the gang has sworn off the sale and production of the synthetic opioid fentanyl.

But President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ordered him released after hundreds of Sinaloa Cartel gunmen overwhelmed security forces in the city.

DEA’s top operational priority is to defeat the Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels – the two drug cartels based in Mexico that are responsible for the vast majority of the fentanyl and methamphetamine that is killing Americans.

During her time working with the Sinaloa cartel, Guadalupe worked closely with Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, known as Alfredillo, one of El Chapo’s sons.

Her husband is serving a life sentence at a supermax jail in Colorado for leading the Sinaloa cartel.

He was captured in January after an intense firefight in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa.

Its flagship project is the Panuco-Copala silver gold district located in Sinaloa, Mexico.

Lopez, 33, and his brother, Joaquín Guzmán-López, ran the Guzmán-López Transnational Criminal Organization, a subset of the Sinaloa Cartel, according to the Department of State.

Mexican authorities arrested a man known as the top enforcer for the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Most of the fentanyl trafficked in the United States comes from the Sinaloa cartel, the Drug Enforcement Administration says.

Nayarit, on the Pacific coast, neighbours the states of Sinaloa to the northwest and Jalisco to the south, where the country’s two largest drug trafficking cartels operate.

Since then, though, the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels have cut out the middlemen, making their own fentanyl powder and pills with raw materials from China and India.

The 32-year-old, nicknamed "El Raton" (The Mouse), had allegedly helped to run his father’s operations since the former Sinaloa cartel boss was extradited to the United States in 2017.

The carcass of a dead cow is seen near the drought-affected Sanalona dam in Culiacán, in the northern state of Sinaloa.

The Sinaloa cartel is not known to have a significant presence in Seattle.