Alleged Sinaloa cartel leader operating world’s largest fentanyl ring killed by Mexican military

NY Post ^ | 12/01/25 | Caitlin McCormack

[Libloather]

An alleged Sinaloa cartel leader who was wanted by US authorities on suspicion of operating the “world’s largest known fentanyl production network” was killed by the Mexican military on Sunday.

Pedro Inzunza Coronel, better known under the alias “El Pichón,” allegedly attacked members of the Mexican Navy during a drug raid in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, Omar Garcia Harfuch, Mexico’s security secretary, wrote on X.

Harfuch wrote that Coronel “lost his life” during the raid, though the exact manner of his death is unclear.

In May, the US Department of Justice charged Coronel and his father, Pedro Inzunza Noriega, with narco-terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering committed while the pair ran the Beltran Leyva Organization, a faction with the Sinaloa cartel that has since been shut down.

The father-son duo were accused of shipping tens of thousands of kilograms of fentanyl into the US. The Mexican government additionally seized more than 1.65 tons of fentanyl from the faction’s holdings.

It is, to date, the single largest seizure of fentanyl in the world, according to the DOJ.

The indictment was a “first in the nation to charge” that the DOJ said was only made possible through President Trump’s executive order that designated the Sinaloa cartel as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

[Libloather]

Done.

[Steely Tom]

Various US Senators and Congressmen will be most vexed.

[NorthMountain]

Fell behind on his bribes?

[SpaceBar]

They didn’t read him his rights?

[oldasrocks]

Too convenient to believe.

[virgil]

Where’s the body? No body, no death.

[Eccl 10:2]

Yeah, somebody else wanted the position.

[Just mythoughts]

In before RandPaul accuses the Mexican military of a ‘war’ crime...

[fidelis]

The father-son duo were accused of shipping tens of thousands of kilograms of fentanyl into the US. The Mexican government additionally seized more than 1.65 tons of fentanyl from the faction’s holdings.

If there wasn't a demand for it, there wouldn't be a supply of it.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They believe Trump is quite capable of ordering the US military in Mexico and that the military will do so.

You do not need to actually do something as long as they believe you will.

And he has already told the Mexican government that what we seize, we keep.

The Mexican government is left with the choice of either doing the job themselves and keeping what they can grab or of the US coming over the border and doing the same.

They chose the first option.

[Jeff Chandler]

Some Mexican naval officer just got himself in some deep caca.

[beaversmom]

Rand Paul is deeply saddened.

[No name given]

Indeed.

[BipolarBob]

Why did they use violence? Couldn’t they have sent in a social worker to counsel him?
/sarc

[Bobbyvotes]

I sense an injunction coming from a district judge. Only a court can order death sentence, not military.

[bobcat62]

That depends. When we were in Mazatlan in February, there were to factions fighting for control of the Sinaloa cartel. Did the guy who got whacked belong to the more violent faction fighting for control?

[Bullish]

Bravo!! Or whatever they say in Spanish lingo that says that.

[Bullish]

If there wasn't a demand for it, there wouldn't be a supply of it.

The whole of the US society shouldn't be blamed or made to suffer because there's a "demand for it".

[anton]

A simpleton speaks. You must know exactly noting about fentanyl.

[Jeff Chandler]

Did the guy who got whacked belong to the more violent faction fighting for control?

Good point. I need a score card.