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Abstract
Sinaloa Carter is a syndicate of criminals involved in drug-trafficking. It is mainly involved in the distribution and smuggling of Mexican Marijuana, Mexican and Southeast Asia heroin, Colombian cocaine and methamphetamine in the Univted States of America. Sinaloa Cartel is heavily involved in clashes with other cartels over the dominancy issues over routes as well, which has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives. Law enforcement strategies and statures can be applied to eradicate the strengths of this cartel, which may be done by checking money laundering, systematic tracking and weakening the alliances. The persons proved guilty of these crimes can be punished according to the “Controlled Substances Act”.
Introduction 4
Discussion 4
Background and Crimes Committed 4
Law Enforcement Strategies, Tools, and Federal Stature 6
Conclusion 8
References 9
Organized Crime
Introduction
Organized criminal organizations are local groupings, national or transnational organizations which have centralized command. They are run by criminal s who are engaged in illicit activities which are done to attain monetary gains. Sinaloa Carter is one of such organized criminal organization which is a syndicate of criminals involved in drug-trafficking. It operates in the states of Mexico including Durango Baja California, and Chihuhua (Benson & French, 2008). These parts of Mexico is the main producer of marijuana and opium. It is considered to be the biggest Drug Cartel in the world. Myriad law enforcement strategies and statures can be applied to eradicate the strengths of this cartel including checking money laundering, systematic tracking and weakening the alliances. They can be penalized according to the “Controlled Substances Act”.
Discussion
Background and Crimes Committed
According to the report published by the Attorney General of United States, this cartel is mainly held responsible for the distribution and import of cocaine and heroine of 200 tons between the years 1990 and 2008 (Madsen, 2009). With a presence in 17 states of Mexico and important centers in Tepic, Mexico City, Zacatecas, Toluca and Sinoloa, it is regarded as one of the largest drug-trafficking cartel. Sinaloa cartel is mainly involved in the distribution and smuggling of Mexican Marijuana, Mexican and Southeast Asia heroin, Colombian cocaine and methamphetamine in the Univted States of America.
It is highly considered that Herrera Organization is the main body that transfers large quantitities of cocaine to Guantemala from South America on Sinaloa Cartel’s behalf. The cocaine from here is further transported to the northern part of Mexico, which transfers it to the United States. Accoding to the United Staets Drug Enforcement Administration in 1980s, it believed that Sinaloa Cartel is a drug trafficking organization with the largest operations in Mexico. It was believed to be in close alliance to Juárez Cartel, which was formed in the wake of a partnership by Tijuana and Gulf Cartel. Sinaloa Cartel works in close alliance with various other cartels.The group has been involved in the trafficking through US and Mexican Border.
Beltrán-Leyva brothers in 2005, who was previously associated with the Sinaloa Carted came in high dominance with the traffficking of drug across Arizona’s border. With this this cartel attained a dominace in the region with new branches including The Milenio, Sonora, Jalisco, and Colima. January 2008 marked a new epidamic in the region with the division of major warring factions (Grayson, 2011). This started a new era in gang war with a gang considering others as enemies. This resulted in brutal murders with bodies dissolved in acid or beheading. Their scenes were sometime captured in video and relesased in Internet to spread fear amongst the gang members.
Sinaloa Cartel is heavily involved in clashes with other cartels over the dominancy issues over routes. Clashes with the Tijuana Cartel with Sinaloa Cartel is examplary. In the year 1992, the cartel members attacked the members of Tijuana Cartel at a disco club and they killed nine of their members. The criminals associated with this crime from the Sinaloa Cartel escaped form the site with the assistance of reknowned gangster, David “D” Barron (Watt & Martínez, 2012).
Law Enforcement Strategies, Tools, and Federal Stature
Historically lethal operations against the drug cartel have proved to enhance its overall strong holds. These sort of police actions create violence in the surrounding where these organizations operate. Targetted operations done by police should be complimented by intelligence and strategic operations. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which comes under the Office of Foreign Assets Control that further comes under the umbrella of the Department of Justice should target the money laundering to enforce drug cartel control. Their strategy shoud include tracking enforcement by analyzing money movements that occurs nationally and internationally (Longmire, 2011). This will heavitly assist them to create intellligence for targeting, identifying and procecution of the drug trade’s command and control system.
Big cartels like Sinaloa increases their strenghts by their association and partnership with various other small cartels. They strategically asist the big cartels in those areas which these cartels lacks basic strenghts. The law enforcement agencies should target these smaller cartels and they must persecute them. This in result will assist in weakening the abilities of Sinaloa Cartel. This will provide a strategic dent to their overall control in routes and supply chain.
Special millitary forces should be assigned on specific area of the war on drugs by making concrete reformation in departmentalization, training procedure and by integrating this system in the bureaucratic system at large, which will undermine the level of fear created by these cartels in the society. This will greatly reduce their morale and efforts.
Their families, lieutenants, and their leaders can be invovled by giving them some rewards so they may report the transactions related to finances and various properties that are linked with the trafficking of drugs. Officials can also infiltrate these people to get a proper access to their logistics and the map of their movements. Since these organizations works in groups, we may involve state and ferderal police to have targetted operations on their places, which are the most violent. We must delink every kind fo support or colloboration that Sinaloa Cartel receives from police, authorities and citizens. A US-Mexico bi-national structure of rewards can be offered to the people that assist in identification and detention of the cartel lords. An international colloborative tracking system should be constructed to get insights about their operations.
As already expounded that Sinaloa Cartel, which has a wide cross national network must be identied, tracked and persecuted by the movement of financial resources. The initial step in this regard is of the identication of the organizations and individuals who are highly suspected to be a part of drug trade in Mexico. The person to be suspected may be the official from Mexico who moves large chunk of amount and have various sort of businesses in U.S. Local individuals can be incentivised to identify members of the Sinaloa Cartel group.
Data acquired from the previous process will be forwarded to all the respective agencies and departments who are working for identify drug cartel finances. The access to the database should also be provided to the intermediaries of money laundering and financial institutions. This database should be systemized so it makes things available and updated. This database should be shared with international and Mexico financial institutions and governements. This will work as an excellent effort which is highly similar to the National Security Council Resolution.
After the list has been distributed to the financial institution, it should utilize its power and must work to freeze the accounts that are doing money laundering. Specific information should be forwarded to the law and enforcement agencies to they can capture people invovled in it. The persons proved guilty of these crimes can be punished according to the “Controlled Substances Act”.
Conclusion
Sinaloa Cartel is the leading drug cartel of the world that have alliances, reach and access across the a major part of the illegal drug market. Best enforcement strategies and tools to investigage and persecute this cartel is through systematic financial tracking with the collaboration from different financial authorities and law enforcement agencies. A US-Mexico bi-national structure of rewards can be offered to the people that assist in identification and detention of the cartel lords.Weakening the alliances of this organization with other small cartels will also assist us in prosecution through the “Controlled Substances Act”
References
Benson, M., & French, J. L. (2008).Organized crime. New York: Chelsea House.
Grayson, G. W. (2011). Threat posed by mounting vigilantism in Mexico. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.
Longmire, S. (2011). Cartel: the coming invasion of Mexico's drug wars. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Madsen, F. G. (2009). Transnational organized crime. London: Routledge.
Watt, P., & Martínez, R. (2012). Drug war Mexico: politics, neoliberalism and violence in the new narcoeconomy. London: Zed Books.
