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TonyBombassolo Administrator Posts: 264	The Flores brothers Dec 10, 2023 5:47:39 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by TonyBombassolo on Dec 10, 2023 5:47:39 GMT This fantastic trial transcript from Crowned TV Courts on Youtube documents the trial and how the Flores brothers revealed how they supplied thousands of kilos for the Sinaloa Cartel and El Chapo.
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The entire system was broken when lower level dealers began to flip.

∙ Christine Burgos and Claude McKay inform on Chris 'West Side' Baines. Charles Parker and Craig Smith, cousins of Baines, get 5 and 6 years respectively. Burgos got 1 day.
cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/13-3284/13-3284-2015-02-09.pdf?ts=1423513856

∙ Baines is supplied by Michael 'Fat Mike' King and seperately supplied by Emeterio 'Kentucky' Guttierez who also informs on Baines. Guttierez got 9 years for his help.
chicago.suntimes.com/2018/1/26/18527622/el-chapo-west-side-bust-dea-sinaloa-cartel-chapo

∙ Michael King is supplied by the Flores brothers
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/small-time-chicago-criminals-led-the-way-to-cartel-bust/1860074/

∙ The Flores brothers were supplied, for a time, by Guadalupe Ledezma who they began working with around 2000, as a connection of their fathers
www.courthousenews.com/chicago-born-trafficker-testifies-against-el-chapo/

∙ After Ledezma kidnaps Pedro Flores, the Flores brothers meet El Chapo himself, who was supplying Ledezma.

∙ Chapo has the Flores brothers work with Jose Tirso Martinez Sanchez, who later flips on El Chapo and who was ripping the Flores brothers off
www.cbsnews.com/news/el-chapo-trial-cooperators-tirso-martinez-sanchez-jorge-cifuentes-pedro-flores-mexican-drug-lord/
nypost.com/2020/02/20/sinaloa-cartel-snitch-who-ran-el-chapos-cocaine-train-network-gets-light-sentence/
Tirso was picked up in Mexico 2014-02-02 and extradited 2015-12-17
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/cartel-leader-extradited-mexico-eastern-district-new-york-face-international-cocaine

∙ It is believed Martinez-Sanchez was working with Vicente Carillo Fuentes when the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels were still allies prior to late 2003
www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/mexico-arrests-juarez-cartel-vicente-carrillo-fuentes

∙ Pedro Flores testified that being caught between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels as a customer was the prime reason he flipped

Burgos/McKay < Chris Baines < Fat Mike King < Flores Brothers < Ledezma < Sinaloa

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∙ 2001 - The Flores brothers, being supplied by Ledezma, begin moving product from Mexico > Juarez and then into the US where they move the majority of it in the Chicago area
www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-flores-brothers-drug-cartel-met-20150327-story.html
www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/october-2013/sinaloa-cartel/
∙ 2002 - A drug bust in New York causes supply problems
www.nytimes.com/2002/05/25/nyregion/two-tons-of-cocaine-seized-in-biggest-haul-since-89.html
∙ 2003 - The Flores brothers, still being supplied by Ledezma, are moving 800/1200 kilograms per month via El Paso to Texas route.
∙ 2004 - The Flores brothers move to Mexico due to law enforcement pressure in Wisconsin
∙ 2004-12-?? - Two employees of the Flores brothers are kidnapped and 400 kilograms are robbed from them.
∙ 2005-12-?? - The Flores brothers father is kidnapped
∙ 2009-08-20 - 36 members of the conspiracy are indicted
archives.fbi.gov/archives/chicago/press-releases/2009/cg082009.htm
Full indictment can be found at www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/legacy/2009/08/20/chapo-mayo-indictment.pdf
∙ 2009-12-?? - The twins' father Margarito Flores Sr. foolishly returns to Mexico and pays the price for his son's informing
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2912252/Your-sons-rats-Chicago-drug-running-brothers-cooperation-federal-agents-against-Mexican-cartels-leads-father-s-kidnap-death.html
∙ 2015-01-27 - The Flores brothers are sentenced to 14 years in jail
www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/chicago-twins-cooperation-against-sinaloa-cartel-yields-14-year-prison-terms-new
∙ 2023-02-21 - Genaro Garcia Luna, the former top law enforcement official in Mexico, is convicted at court as further fallout from the Sinaloa trials.
www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ex-mexican-secretary-public-security-genaro-garcia-luna-convicted-engaging-continuing
Prosecutors alleged that Luna received around $274 million in bribes from the cartel from 2001 to 2012, while doing photo ops with US President Barack Obama, US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, and US Attorney General Eric Holder.
theintercept.com/2023/02/21/garcia-luna-verdict/

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People involved in the conspiracy:

∙ Juan Guzman Rocha aka 'Juancho' a cousin of El Chapo
www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/chi-sinaloa-drug-cartel-charge-drop-20141009-story.html
It is believed Rocha was killed in 2022
www.latinpost.com/articles/156777/20220916/sinaloa-cartel-boss-el-chapo-nephew-gunned-down-mexico-chihuahua.htm

∙ German Olivares
∙ Omar Wiwi
∙ El Mayo Zambada
∙ Vicente Zambada
∙ Tomas Arevalo-Renteria
∙ Alfredo Guzman Salazar - El Chapo's son
∙ Alfredo Vazquez-Hernandez - A partner with Jose Tirso Martinez Sanchez, Vazquez-Hernandez plead guilty and got 22 years

www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/11/show_temp-3.pl-1.pdf

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El Chapo's own people would eventually testify about how he handled traitors who worked for the Zetas as well
www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/el-chapo-trial-isaias-valdez-rio-torture-murder-rival-784485/

The Zetas are infamous for their barbaric ways such as the Allende Massacre and the Apodaca prison riot
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/mexico/2021-03-18/allende-massacre-decade-impunity
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apodaca_prison_riot

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