Alleged Leader of Sinaloa Cartel Faction Indicted in Chicago on Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, and Firearm Charges
A federal grand jury has indicted an alleged leader of a violent faction of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico on terrorism, drug, and firearm charges, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise.
According to the superseding indictment returned yesterday in the Northern District of Illinois, Oscar Manuel Gastelum Iribe, 50, of Sinaloa, Mexico, also known as El Musico, directed the importation of large quantities of fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs — at times in shipments of hundreds or thousands of kilograms — into the United States on behalf of the Beltran Leyva faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
“As alleged, Oscar Manuel Gastelum Iribe led a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel that flooded the United States with fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin and used murder and intimidation to protect its profits,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “The Sinaloa Cartel has been designated a foreign terrorist organization because of the kinds of crimes announced today. This indictment further demonstrates that the Criminal Division will use every tool at its disposal to target cartel leaders, including by holding them accountable for acts of terrorism against our country.”
“Today’s narcoterrorism indictment of El Musico sends a powerful message that this Administration is going to aggressively pursue transnational criminal organizations and hold their highest-ranking members and associates accountable for poisoning the American public with illegal and harmful drugs,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros for the Northern District of Illinois. “The Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office has a proud history going back many decades of prosecuting some of the nation’s biggest and most significant narcotrafficking cartel cases. Building on that tradition, under my leadership, our office will continue to prioritize the investigation and prosecution of violent drug cartels, several of which, including the Sinaloa Cartel, have very deservedly been designated as foreign terrorist organizations. Working closely with other prosecutors and law enforcement partners across the United States, our goal remains unchanged: to disrupt and dismantle the Sinaloa Cartel’s drug empire and bring its leaders to justice.”
“From narcocorridos to narcoterrorist. El Musico famously writes his own lyrics, but his next one will be written from the Bureau of Prisons,” said U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California. “As El Musico once boasted, ‘La vida es curiosa, hoy soy poderoso,’ but soon his ‘Rancho Querido’ will be nothing but a distant memory.”
“This indictment sends a clear and uncompromising message: cartel leaders who flood our streets with fentanyl and arm their networks with machine guns and grenades are not just drug traffickers — they are terrorists,” said DEA Administrator Terrance Cole. “Oscar Manuel Gastelum Iribe and his faction turned cartel violence into a campaign of terror, targeting police, military, and civilians alike. DEA remains relentless in our pursuit of these narco-terrorists, and we will not stop until the Sinaloa Cartel — and every organization like it — is dismantled, its leaders brought to justice, and American families protected.”
“The indictment of El Musico and the dismantlement of the leadership structure of these foreign terrorist organizations are direct results of the unwavering commitment of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and our law enforcement partners to protect the United States,” said Special Agent in Charge Shawn Gibson of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations San Diego. “We remain resolute in our mission to bring all members of these criminal cartels to justice, regardless of where they attempt to evade accountability.”
“As a leader of a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, Gastelum Iribe allegedly directed the importation of cocaine, heroine, fentanyl, and other lethal drugs into the United States and oversaw atrocious acts of violence, including kidnappings and murders, in Mexico,” said Special Agent in Charge Reid Davis of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division. “The superseding indictment against him is the result of years of collaboration among multiple federal agencies and judicial districts. The FBI and our partners will continue to work toward dismantling the Sinaloa Cartel and bringing its violent leaders — including El Musico — to justice.”
After the arrest or death of the faction’s original leaders, Gastelum Iribe assumed a leadership role and conspired with associates to distribute drugs nationwide. including in the Chicago area, using cars, trucks, rail cars, and other interstate carriers. To protect the cartel’s operations, Gastelum Iribe allegedly ordered and carried out violent attacks against rivals, military personnel, and law enforcement, including ordering the murder of a Mexican police officer and two others. Under Gastelum Iribe’s leadership, the faction armed its members with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, explosives, and other weapons, while also engaging in kidnappings, assaults, and bribery of corrupt public officials.
Gastelum Iribe is charged with terrorism, drug trafficking, and firearm offenses. The terrorism charges, which accuse Gastelum Iribe of engaging in narcoterrorism and providing material support and resources to the Sinaloa Cartel, is a result of President Trump’s Executive Order 14157 designating the Sinaloa Cartel as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and the State Department’s subsequent designation of the same in February of this year.
If convicted, Gastelum Iribe faces a mandatory penalty of life in prison. He is not in custody and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
The indictment is the result of a collaboration between prosecutors in the Criminal Division’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, the Northern District of Illinois, and Southern District of California, as well as law enforcement partners from Homeland Security Investigations, FBI, and DEA.
This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations and protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime. Operation Take Back America streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s OCDETF and Project Safe Neighborhoods.
An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
This idiot next song will be titled "I am behind bars for selling drugs". At least he's lucky by being alive. All of his other buddies in Sinaloa are dead meat. Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDeleteLol if you were the real nuff said like me you wouldn't be talking shit on el musico because I am a beltran leyva fan boy! My first post on Borderland Beat with this nickname around 10 years ago proves it. It was about Arturo vs M1.
Delete-The real Nuff Said!!!
I'll seriously doubt it. Nuff of your Sh*t.
Delete7:56 No problem ill search the BB archives and post that article just to shut your ass up!
Delete-The real Nuff Said!!!
Put up or shut up.
DeleteNone of the above comments were approved by ME, The Really Realest Nuff Said!!!
DeleteWould you smash El Tuta's hot wife??
DeleteSinaloans are beating their meat now before they're dead? Old news Nuff.
Deletewell all the filth in Mexico and the U.S. will be finished talking out their little culitos in jail or the morg . DEA is coming for you punk pos. Your days are numbered . ENOUGH SAID !!!
Deletehttps://www.borderlandbeat.com/2015/01/how-to-succeed-in-business-sinaloa.html
DeleteHere it is you know nothing impostor. My first post with my sign-off nuff said. Stop using my moniker.
-The real Nuff Said!!!
Sorry, bud, no sale...
DeleteThe January 8 2015 comment is a far different writing style that ANY of the current nuffies. 🧐😂
I am Nuff Said.
DeleteLook at me!
If you don't believe it too bad. The moderators know it's the same location/IP. Keep clowning yourself!
DeleteThat's a negative, Nuffs
DeleteWe have made a statue of nuffs said...all out of the finest invisible materials.
DeleteWorship of the Golden Calf!
Delete5:43 i would even smash La puta tuta, and you.
Delete@5.54. Even if that was true, just because you copy your hillbilly uncles from the same IP wdn't mean shit. I could pretend I'm SIR and prove it by quoting his earliest ramble. Moderators have better things to do than encourage you copycat kids. The real joke is that any of you WANT to link yourselves to the nonsense Nuff Said says. Anybody who understands anything would be denying any connection.
Delete5:35
DeleteThat post DOES NOT have your sign off.
Plenty of time to write lyrics now you fucking moron.
ReplyDeleteFu too, fool
DeleteYou sound hurt , Músico hurt you without even knowing you bruh.
Delete11:06 Envidioso
DeleteSome of the best music is made behind bars over payphones, facts!
ReplyDeleteNuff said will rat on him
ReplyDeleteIt's tough to get people to rat when they don't know, aren't interested, never were bothered by him, and besides, looks like he's hella murderous.
DeleteHe is Beltran Leyva ,Chapito Isidro people?
ReplyDeleteTo the contrary, regarding this BLO faction, El Musico is said to be the principal boss and holds authority over chapo isidro himself. He was a close and key lieutenant for arturo since the early 90s and apparently inherited most of arturo’s contacts and routes after his death
DeleteDude was 20 in the early 90s how is that even possible
Delete5:09 I read somewhere that he started working for Arturo when he was like 15. They're from the same municipality in Sinaloa
Delete12:57 isn't he arthroscopic brother in law?
Delete1257 I know the real leader of that faction. It is none of the ones that are wanted. The real leader is about 65-68 years old. All i will say
DeleteWell it is cheap to announce an indictment full of incorrect statements to try to get informants to come in.
Delete1257 I am confused about BLO being considered a faction of CDS at this point, unless we're talking about the historical arrangement before the warring started. The only way I could imagine BLO as a "faction" today is if leadership of CDS were in play and they were after control.
Delete12:02 so you want to let the feds know you have vital information. Why put on a target on your back for clout. If you say this here. How do you get being drunk or high? Who have you told already.
Delete3:45
DeleteI tell everyone.
You make some good points.
From now on, I'm gonna keep my cards close to my vest 🤫
345 Many in Guasave know. No clout. No alcohol, no drugs, just random stats that a recular Joe like me can pull without dropping millions of tax payer money to do intel. The Money Wheel of the good ol’ US of A.
Delete12.36. They aren't really a faction of Sinaloa, that's DEA doing what it always does- trying to fit 50 fat men under one umbrella to make them easier to indict and prosecute - but they have an arrangement, especially regarding chicago. Those old enmities from the war are long gone, and they have nowhere near the power they used to, so challenging Sinaloa was never an option.
Delete12.02. Pedro Inzuna and his uncle? Lol. You sound like the clowns who said the real boss of Sinoloa was Mayo, oops he got caught i mean the real boss is hiding in the mountains like a ghost. I know his name but my lips are sealed (cos they"re puckered up ready to kiss his imaginary ass).
Delete@12.02. Tell us the third letter of the paternal surname. Just to show you haven't just googled BLO Hierarchy.
Delete@3.45. Dude, he has no vital information. He's talking about Musicos partners in the Inzuna Noriega family, things he googled and misunderstood. He could hire 1000 children to clamber on rooftops with megaphones in every town in BLO territory and every hub to Chicago to yell a script and it would only be annoying for local shop keepers.
Delete1252 No idea about what Mexicans be doing in Chicago. If BLO in Sinaloa is running any part of the show in Chicago now, I'm astounded when they're doing hits on CDS at home. All the gringos in Chicago crime I am aware of, they are fucking fearful of Mexico, their networks start with bikers in Arizona and Sonora, and that looks every bit like it should be Chapitos rackets.
Delete"Un tiempo fui campesino
ReplyDeleteY desde muy niño
Me enseñé a sembrar
(Y esto es Alta consigna)
Fierro pa' Sonora
Un tiempo fui campesino y desde muy niño
Me enseñé a sembrar
Pero todo era tristeza, vivía en la pobreza
Tuve que cambiar
Me convertí en traficante
Primero ayudante de un hombre famoso
Pero cambiaron las cosas, la vida es curiosa
Hoy soy poderoso
Mucho anduve trabajando
Allá por Durango y por Zacatecas
Por muchos otros lugares
Allá por Nogales también Agua Prieta
Esa cárcel de Durango
Hace algunos años fui su prisionero
Pero no pude aguantarme
Tuve que fugarme con mis compañeros
Me gusta tener amigos
Que sean decididos y que me sean fieles
Y cuando estoy con mi gente
Que toque Consigna para estar alegre
Cantando ya me despido
Del rancho querido que me vio nacer
Ese rancho de la palma
Tengo tantas ganas de volverlo a ver"
He won’t be caught this guy has been two steps ahead for a decade trump did nothing his first term when he had a better chance trump did NOTHING first term about the cartels this is another fraud of his to make his supporters happy by the time trump is done on office I bet he doesn’t capture not one new cartel kingpin I bet Ivan and Flacco will still be free
ReplyDeleteNo today is different they are marked as terrorist none of the famous ones will be alive or free by the time Trump leaves or term ends
DeleteI dunno, Trump might drop the big one on them and blast them to those Pearly Gatess of H E double L. Never know, these days. Stay outta boats.
Delete@3.42. He's running out of time to capture people who have only recently lost their top level protection. It takes a couple of years regardless of how they've been designated. It'll effect their business, but not necessarily their freedom.
DeleteEl musico will be singing a different tune once he's settled in at the supermax in Florence.
ReplyDeleteThat's Koo foo
Delete@6.51. For fuck sake, some pompous DOJ suit already made that "joke" in the indictment, and half a dozen of the comments on here are already repeating it. He hasn't even been arrested.
DeleteHey the cartels should run for president here in the usa. The maga Republicans doesn't have any problems with criminals running. This scum should of ran for state senator as a maga Republican 😂 Just throw a lot of hate on minors 😂 Maga loves that
ReplyDeleteTrust me if they were white they 100% could run republican and win
Delete1:07 mariquito rubio is 100 cuban blood...
DeleteBut looks puercorican
Criminals on both sides now in USA. Politician means criminal, sex offender, illegal stock trader, liar.
DeleteThis guy has remained 100% Beltran Leyva ..
ReplyDeleteTrue Sinaloan gangster like Chapito Isidro, Chalo Araujo, Amado Carrillo and of course Mochomo and Botas Blancas … Chapo’s and mayos are scum rat POS that came to power under the PAN administrations, if Fox would’ve never won the presidency the cartel history would’ve been oh so different.
Ya estas grandesito, no mames.
DeleteWould be different like no BLO? Remember blo where chapo and mayo workers so if it was the other way around you would not have blo to idolize
Delete3:41 BLO were always their own faction; Vicente Zambada makes it clear that Arturo made his own decisions and had as much influence as Mayo and Chapo
Delete@3:41, 🧢. They were never their workers. Back in those days, it was families working in unison to make Ferria. BLO had the politicians on lock but Mayo had the DEA on lock. So when they went to war over getting Ivan out of the can, Mayo helped Chapo get BLO out the way because he wanted the frontera anyways, so it was a win/win for him. The problem with BLO was that they didn’t 🐀 and Chapo/Mayo had no issues working with the Law to down their enemies.
Delete@341: El Musico worked only for Arturo, and Arturo had more Plazas than any other Boss. He also died fighting. That's why He's respected. By your logic El Chapo was just a"worker" for MZ.
Delete@7.18. You're embarrassing. When he betrayed half a dozen of the older generation when he was offered a deal with Sinaloa what do you think he did? Stay loyal to your childs definition of the noble Brothers? The fact you call Arturo Botas Blancas tells me everything.
Delete@11.00 am. Arturo was assassinated by Garcia Luna and the sate, and he died desperately trying to negotiate with his protection like the head of the military zone and others who didn't answer. That Barbie evidence- "I'd rather die then surrender"- how the fuck do the same people who know Barbie was working for the authorities and the FBI and wanted to take over his routes believe his version of that phonecall, the only person who says they have proof he wasn't hiding in a closet desperately phoning protection that didn't answer? Having it both ways makes no sense. Why do you yearn for a fat murderous sadistic fuck to have gone out like a BOSS? Arturo didn't have more "plazas" than any other boss, and the myth of his last stand should have died with Garcia Lunas trial and the subsequent revelations. There was a deliberate policy to cover up what we now know- that Luna had to choose, and he chose Chapo and Mayo, but that would only hold up with their protection agreements if Arturo was killed. He knew that if he was captured members of his family would be tortured to take away his blackmail, cripple his networks, and expose his money, leaving him at the mercy of men whose children had been tortured to death. Fuck that noble Scarface myth. He should have died like the kidnapped teenage girls he made hundreds of thousands from, kids that ended up buried in mass graves by his "nephews" Los Zetas.
Delete1153 That's a great summation but you're relying on testimonies and judgments on the public record as settled facts. As we're seeing this year, plea deals being struck where the admissions of guilt are likely fabrications for the sake of demonstrating to one's allies at home that the feds in the U.S. know nothing substantial about activities inside Mexico anymore. It's take the plea and accept the protection and cooperate no further.
DeleteIt was Arturo who boasted ‘La vida es curiosa, hoy soy poderoso", in a song written by El Musico..
ReplyDeleteHe looks like a prime fichera movie
ReplyDeleteRafael “ Mofles” Inclan lol
Lol he looks like a pinche teporocho in a movie with "la corcholata" and "el comanche".
DeleteChillin in Chihuas el Viejon. Talk to a powerful farmer last name “Fal*****”(Guasave) may lead to him.
ReplyDeleteAsk the farmer if he thinks it will rain.
DeleteI bet he will look up at the clouds in the sky before he answers.
Que Verguenzio NYC
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ReplyDelete1226 Stop stealing the comments, princess ass!
Deleteel no period kid se la come
ReplyDeletePut this clown on the first flight to Uganda as a first class deportee
ReplyDeleteTrump will pardon him!!!
DeleteYes, no period kid.
DeleteI used to get bullied in school because I was a bad singer. I started rapping and all of the sudden I started committing crimes.
ReplyDeletethats koo foo
DeleteCriko guy go to sleep 🛌
Delete@11.15. Yeah yeah, and then Suge Night dangled u out of a window. The only crimes you pretend u committed were cooking Mcs like a pound of bacon, and causing brain damage with poisonous mushrooms, but nobody ever believed you.
DeleteHe lived his life how he wanted and will die how he lived ! He’s swimming in money and can care less if there looking for him, some people aren’t scared of death . El Musico is one of them . Plus throw a couple million at Trump he’ll pardon his worst enemy .
ReplyDeleteNo one knew who this guy was till he started to put his name on songs telling he is the boss of chapo isidro. Another moron that wanted to be famous instead of being in the shadows. He got his wish now.
ReplyDeleteOvidio and Joaquín Jr. snitched on him, this indictment is out of Chicago where Joaquin is currently singing like a canary
Delete@4:18, Thank you Ocran Leaks.
DeleteI'm pretty sure the Flores twins probably provided some info as well. He's mentioned more than a few times in the podcast series that discussed the twins rise and fall. El Musico is one of the few left who the twins worked with that aren't dead or in prison. When they mention him, they talk about him being part of Chapo's factio. Of the CDS- they did mention him as being a part of the BLO.
DeleteHe’s on an old 2009 indictment out of Chicago that the Twins are named in and probably provided a lot of info
DeleteHe’s FNU LNU aka El Musico
I think
Correct nobody knew of him until they started speaking about him if im correct they prob didnt even know his govt name....
DeleteIvan Guzman is the king
ReplyDeleteVato works for Ivan the king
ReplyDeleteWrong. Arturo Beltran-Leyva was His boss. And now, He's one of the 3 Leaders of the "Empresa Guasave". So Chapo Isidro is His boss, if anyone..
DeleteYour wrong Ivan runs the 🎪
Delete@10.47. Chapo Isidro has no real power beyond his fiefdom. I'm always amazed that his myth still prevails. A Military Mastermind for delegating to Gato, then forcing his bosses (he was a thug, not a businessman) to eventually slither back to the old Sinaloa families with their tails between their legs. He'll always have his mob in the mountains, but pretending he has a fifth of the power that Ivan has, even today, is a joke.
DeleteWrong . Chapo Isidro is the one in charge of protecting the plaza fighting and commanding all the hit squads but the financial arm is without a doubt Musico . While Sagitario is also a high ranking trafficker . They all support each other . No one is above .
DeleteSol anyone seen Sol?
ReplyDeleteYou sponsor people to stay in USA?
My name is Alberto I'm wanting to become US citizen, I have clean record, no felony.
I'm in the construction trade.
I have been in US, 12 years.
Self deport, then we will talk later
Delete5:36 Go back to school, learn your periods and will talk later.
DeleteThe Feds talk so crazy with them press releases. He ain’t even in custody and yet they act like he’s in MCC. How many indictments does ole boy from Aguililla have? He ain’t been caught yet either.
ReplyDeleteEarly retirement and free housing for the rest of his life. The Fed is too nice to these narcobangers.
ReplyDeleteFuck all of the nuff said all are a bunch of imbeciles.
ReplyDeleteHere's one musician who will learn how to toot the flute in an American federal penitentiary..
ReplyDelete(Note to readers:
American prisons are segregated by gender, so El musico will be beheind bars only with other males) 🥹😉😂
Yeah charlie Kirk was cool.
ReplyDeleteHis last tweet was about how Taylor Swift should "submit" to her husband.
Poor foo didn't even live long enough know that the 'ho wasnt even married!
NuuffSaaid!!!!!!
1:52 520 ft shot, almost failed,
DeleteNot nice to be a provocateur on College Campuses all over the US, i resent that Utah University will be sued now for billions of dollars...
1:17 am
DeleteTrump nutt hugger , is not alive.
he is gone. Thank Trump, he had his same views.
1:17 am
DeleteVete a dormir no hay Galletas.
Hate to say it but most likely was Mayo who snitched on him . When asked of any other bosses operating at his level . Mentioned musico , chapo Isidro and Sagitario
ReplyDelete@10.03. LOL. El Musico, Chapo Isidro and Inzuna have been on the DEA radar for YEARS dude, there is nothing that Mayo could tell them considering they'd infiltrated BLO more than 15 years ago. Nothing to do with Mayo. Besides, Mayo is saving his best bombshell for later: that Amado Carrillo Fuentes wasn't planning on building a flight school...
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