Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

MEXICO CITY AP Mexico s measure chief proven Tuesday that family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U S last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration Mexican Safety Secretary Omar Garc a Harfuch validated a statement by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez who was extradited to the United States in had entered the U S Guzm n Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo Joaqu n El Chapo Guzm n was imprisoned in the U S Video presented the family members walking across the frontier from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting U S agents Rumors had circulated last week that the younger Guzm n would plead guilty to avoid trial for several drug trafficking charges in the U S after being extradited in Garc a Harfuch substantiated the family members traversing in a radio interview and reported it was clear to Mexican officers that they were doing so after negotiations between Guzm n L pez and the U S authorities He inferred that was the circumstance because the former cartel boss whose lawyer reported in January he had entered negotiations with U S executives had been pointing fingers at members of other criminal organizations likely as part of a cooperation agreement It is evident that his family is going to the U S because of a negotiation or an offer that the Department of Justice is giving him Garcia Harfuch reported He revealed that none of the family members were being pursued by Mexican officials and that the regime of U S President Donald Trump has to share information with Mexican prosecutors something it has not yet done The confirmation by Garc a Harfuch comes the same day that the U S Attorney General s Office communicated it was charging a number of top cartel leaders with narcoterrorism for the first time since the Trump administration declared a number of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations While prosecutors declined to comment on the video of the family U S Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California and other administrators sent a warning to cartel members repeatedly citing the Sinaloa Cartel by name Let me be direct to the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel you are no longer the hunters you are the hunted You will be betrayed by your friends you will be hounded by your enemies and you will ultimately find yourself and your face here in a courtroom in the Southern District of California Gordon explained Source