Mexican authorities continue delivering blows to the Sinaloa cartel organigram with key arrests to high-profile leaders. This time around, a special operation conducted by members of the National Guard and Mexico's Secretariat of Defense (SEDENA) among others, captured Joel "N," also known as "La Morsa" on Jan. 27 in the Benito Juárez borough, near Mexico City's downtown area.
Authorities say La Morsa is "responsible for the production and confection of fentanyl" in the municipality of Elota, Sinaloa. Besides his role as a fentanyl producer, authorities say he is linked to Aureliano Guzmán Loera, the older brother of Sinaloa cartel co-founder Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
