The sons of infamous drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán reportedly caught a wanted FBI fugitive and handed him over as a "goodwill offering".
David DeWayne Young, known as Khaos, was wanted as part of a massive drug conspiracy case. He is allegedly a member of the Ghostface Gangsters Gang, a whites-only organised crime group that emerged from a jail in Georgia, US, in the early 2000s.
Young was arrested in Hermosillo, Mexico, in March this year in a joint effort between the FBI and Mexican law enforcement. However, now it appears the Sinaloa Cartel may have played a key role in bringing him to justice.
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Speaking to MVS Noticias with Luis Cárdenas, journalist Óscar Balmen claimed he was told by an FBI source that El Chapo's sons, known as Los Chapitos, were involved in Young's arrest.
He said: "As for El Chapo's sons, they knew that an American fugitive was hiding in one of their strongholds. They decided they would score points with the FBI and hand him over as a goodwill offering.
"Giving his [Young's] head on a platter would be convenient for them, because after the surprise arrest and express extradition of Ovidio [Guzmán] they started an operation to remove the label of 'Uncle Sam's priority targets for trafficking fentanyl'."
Ovidio, one of El Chapo's sons, was arrested in January last year and is now awaiting trial in the US. The other sons, led by Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, are accused of flooding the US with deadly fentanyl and remain at large.
Balmen also claimed the sons weren't happy with Young's "anti-Mexican" rhetoric. "They detested it," he said, "so Chapo's sons secretly collaborated to hand him over." The journalist explained someone linked to Los Chapitos gave an "anonymous tip" to the Mexican National Guard.
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