The indictment claims a range of torture methods, including electrocution, waterboarding, corkscrews, and hot chilies, were used.
They tortured and killed people who posed a threat. That includes law enforcement officers and members of rival drug cartels. Anyone who refused to pay the gang was also targeted.
Federal officials also detailed how the Chapitos tested the potency of the fentanyl they allegedly produced on their prisoners.
Some of their victims were fed to tigers, which belonged to Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, it alleges.
In another shocking description, the prosecutors accused two of El Chapo’s sons of being involved in the capture and murder of two Mexican federal law enforcement officers in 2017.
One of the officers was interrogated and killed while the other was tortured in front of El Chapo’s sons by the cartel’s hitmen.
El Chapo founded the Sinaloa cartel which is the largest mover of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana trafficked into the US. El Chapo is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison in Colorado.
