Mini Lic earning his plea deal, already snitched on 125 Sinaloa cartel members-and chapo?

Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat translated and republished from Rio Doce

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ámaso López Serrano, the Mini Lic , revealed names of more than 100 members (several of high rank) of the Sinaloa Cartel who, whether free or incarcerated, continue to operate, including Ismael Zambada Sicairos, el Mayito Flaco, Ismael Zambada Imperial el Mayito Gordo, and Serafín Zambada Ortiz, Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa el Chino Ántrax, among others.

Father and Son

That information, published by Univisión, would have been one of the agreements for the Mini Lic in a plea agreement in order to be protected by the government of the United States, from his fate of a probable, imminent death.  The danger initiated after the war broke out between his father, Dámaso López Núñez, El Licenciado, against the children of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, for the control of the plaza.

These names and mode of operation, which the Mini Lic had access to, will strengthen the accusations that exist against members of the Sinaloa Cartel, as it not only provides the necessary tools for prosecutors Adam L. Braverman and Matthew Sutton to have the evidence necessary for, to convict those facing accusations by the United States, but that Lopez Serrano himself could provide his testimony against drug traffickers in judicial confrontations.

Right after revealing that information, Mini Lic pleaded guilty to each and every one of the charges for which he was charged in a federal court in Southern California, which is the same court that conducts the trials against el Chino Anthrax, and Ismael Zambada Imperial.

Despite having provided signals, the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) did not specify whether it would strengthen the security of the Mini Lic within the penitentiary, since the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) of San Diego, where the drug trafficker is confined, has strong security measures to protect him from an eventual attack.

"We are analyzing reinforcing that security, but at the moment we have not decided anything," BOP sources told Ríodoce.

Although none of the now enemies of the Mini Lic is in the same prison, as revealed by the BOP page, it was not possible to specify where Chino Anthrax or Serafín Zambada are being held,

However, the information revealed by the Mini Lic can serve to be the downfall of those who currently face  charges or extradition proceedings.

In the case of Chapo, it is unknown if the allegations made by López Serrano include information that could be used against him, or if a confrontation between the Mini Lic and Guzmán Loera would occur, since no one like the Dámaso López could be more detrimental to the capo, having been the operations arm since Guzmán Loera escaped from the prison of Puente Grande Jalisco, in January 2001.

An Examination of the narcojunior

Dámaso López Serrano, the Mini Lic, began in the drug trade thanks to his father Dámaso López Núñez,  El Licenciado,  after the latter helped the Chapo escape from the prison of Puente Grande Jalisco in 2001.

El Licenciado was not a prominent figure. But having helped the capo gave him recognition and support, and soon began to grow in the shadow of Guzmán Loera. Then Lopez Serrano was 13 years old, and he did not have the nickname of Mini Lic, but thanks to the fact that his father started taking him to the events that Guzmán Loera invited him, he began to have contact with the sons of the big bosses, who were referring to him as ‘mini lic” as the son of  El Licenciado. And that's how he earned the alias of Mini Lic.

When he was already of age, his father began to employ him as his assistant, and later as his logistics coordinator, and  eventually, Mini Lic began to amass money and power..

The United States file number 16CR1896DMS identifies him since 2005, when he began coordinating large shipments that belonged to Chapo Guzmán and his father, a job that allowed him to have an income qualifying him as a millionaire, when he was only 18 years old.

It was then when fame began, and luxury cars, banquets, women, and corridos in his honor. His rise had been meteoric, and his fame had already begun to gain him respect, including friendships with “los meros meros”: the children of Chapo and Mayo .

He began to move with armed people and to have his own private security group, that is, his personal assassins.  He was trafficking  methamphetamines and cocaine to the United States, and he was in charge of  the coordination of sending  millions of United States dollars to Culiacán.

He hung out at well-known restaurants located in the Tres Ríos de Culiacán area and he moved with complete freedom in the city.

Everything that begins ends

But the paradise that the Mini Lic had found thanks to his father could not be eternal. Sooner or later it would implode. It was that fateful January of 2017, when his father's boss, Chapo Guzman was extradited to Brooklyn, New York.

His father, who had taken over the business led by his former boss, received a claim from the children of Chapo, who demanded the control of the group, which by an unwritten law, belonged to them.

A settlement of the disagreement was unattainable, unable to solve, it ended in a war that began to swing in favor of the Guzmán children.  When his father was arrested in May 2017, that was the end of the reign of the Mini Lic , and his decision to turn himself over to the United States was to save life.