UNITED STATES.- A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted Jesus Omar Ibarra Felixan alleged head of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexicofor crimes related to drugs, weapons and material support for terrorism.
The Prosecutor’s Office stressed that Ibarra Félix is not detained, and an arrest warrant has been issued against him.
Who is Jesús Omar Ibarra Félix?
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Ibarra Félix, 49 years old and who is a fugitiveled an armed group known as Chuta’s Special Forces (FECH), who would have participated in armed conflicts in support of the faction of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera of the Sinaloa Cartel, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization formerly led by Guzmán, according to the indictment.
DATE would have provided armed security to Guzmán Loera’s four sons, known as “los Chapitos,” who assumed leadership of the cartel after Guzmán’s arrest in 2016.
A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, subsequently convicted Guzmán Loera and sentenced him to life in prison.
According to the accusation, between 2016 and 2026 Ibarra Félix supplied machine guns to the Chapitos and conspired with them and others to import methamphetamine and fentanyl from Mexico into the United States.
One of the alleged co-conspirators, Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, worked with Ibarra Félix in implementing armed security. A Meza Flores He was charged in 2019 in the District of Columbia and is currently on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.
In addition to leading the FECH, Ibarra Félix would have served as “plaza chief,” supervising drug trafficking operations in his assigned region near Ahome, Mexico, between 2016 and 2025.
The defendant, also known as El Chuta, faces charges of terrorism, drugs and weaponswith penalties that could reach life imprisonment in federal prison.
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