FBI and State Department Offer $5 Million Reward for Sinaloa’s Other ’Chapo’ Angelika Albaladejo - InSight Crime
go to original September 29, 2017

The US government has offered a $5 million reward for the capture of a Mexican drug trafficker who has kept a low profile while allegedly playing a major role in Sinaloa's fragmented criminal landscape. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US State Department announced on September 27 that a $5 million reward would be offered in exchange for information directly leading to the arrest or conviction of Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, alias "Chapo Isidro" or "Chapito Isidro."

Chapo Isidro is recognized by the US government as the alleged leader of the Meza Flores drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa state, Mexico. The Meza Flores network was formally classified as a Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) by the US Treasury Department in 2013.

US officials also believe that Chapo Isidro was previously a high-ranking leader of the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO) and was considered the "right hand man" of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, who was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison in the United States earlier this year.

Chapo Isidro was indicted by a US federal court in 2012 for conspiracy to import large-scale drug shipments from Mexico to the United States.



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