Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced charges against members of the Sinaloa drug cartel and Chinese and Guatemalan citizens accused of supplying precursor chemicals required to make fentanyl.

The Justice Department has charged 28 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation.

Joaquin Guzman was sentenced to life behind bars for a massive drug conspiracy that spread murder and mayhem for more than two decades