Sinaloa Senator Enrique Inzunza Cazárez, who’s dealing with drug trafficking and weapon expenses, was taken into custody in San Diego by the Drug Enforcement Administration, a number of Mexican information shops reported on Saturday.
The Division of Justice and the DEA’s San Diego discipline workplace didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Inzunza Cazárez, 53, who’s amongst 10 present and former Sinaloa officers who had been indicted by the US District Courtroom Southern District of New York on April 29, is claimed to have turned himself in to federal authorities in southern California.
He’s accused of narcotics importation conspiracy; possession of machine weapons and damaging units; and conspiracy to own machine weapons and damaging units.
Inzunza Cazárez, a member of the ruling Morena social gathering, has held workplace since August 2024 and beforehand served because the Secretary Normal of Sinaloa beneath Governor Ruben Rocha Moya, who was additionally indicted and stepped down Could 2.
In accordance with the 34-page superseding indictment, the Sinaloa Senator conspired with the Sinaloa Cartel faction Los Chapitos – which is run by Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s sons, to import medication to the US.
Inzunza Cazárez is accused of assembly with Los Chapitos leaders “and agreed on particular plans for the federal government in Sinaloa, beneath Rocha Moya, to help and defend the cartel for favors from the cartel that, in flip, assist the defendants and different corrupt officers in energy.”
The Division of Justice alleged that Inzunza Cazárez and businessman Enrique Diaz Vega, who as soon as served because the state’s Secretary of Administration and Finance from November 2021 to September 2024 and turned himself in to authorities in Arizona on Friday, assisted Los Chapitos leaders in putting in dishonest officers to guard that cartel faction’s drug trafficking operations and acted as middlemen between El Chapo’s sons and Rocha Moya.
Forward of the June 2021 elections, Diaz Vega offered Los Chapitos the names and addresses of Rocha Moya’s opponents in order that the cartel “may threaten and pressure these opponents to drop out of the gubernatorial race.”
After Rocha Moya took workplace, he and Inzunza Cazárez held a gathering with Los Chapitos leaders and acknowledged that they helped ship a triumphant marketing campaign, based on the court docket doc.
In return, the indictment indicated that “Rocha Moya would be sure that the Chapitos had management over the Sinaloa State Police, which might enable the Chapitos to hold out its drug trafficking operations with out the chance of interference by state legislation enforcement.”
Inzunza Cázares’ attorneys reportedly held talks with the Division of Justice for his voluntary give up and to develop into a authorities witness, Mexican newspaper El Common reported Could 2.
“A drug trafficker who surrenders and provides info primarily falls beneath the class of a cooperating witness,” a Division of Justice supply advised the outlet.
Nonetheless, Inzunza Cázares shut down the report the identical day.
“Completely false,” he wrote on X.
Adela Piriz Castellano, who heads the social help and household welfare company in Macuspana, Tabasco, credited President Donald Trump for Inzunza Cázares’ apprehension.
“He was arrested following formal expenses by the US Division of Justice, which hyperlinks him to drug trafficking and the Sinaloa Cartel,” she wrote on social media. “TRUMP: THE BEST PRESIDENT FOR MEXICO”
