Gucci, Coca Cola, Lacoste, or the CR7 allusive to soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, These are some of the brands that the Sinaloa Cartel has used to classify their packagess of cocaine.
This was revealed by the Mexican journalist Humberto Piaggett in a 2021 investigation, presented in the Ciro Gómez Leyva news space, in which he reported on the various labels used by the Sinaloa Cartel to classify cocaine.
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And it is that the drug business of said group is large. The Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City recently presented a report on arrests and seizures of members belonging to criminal groups in Sinaloa and Sonora, the central point of drug distribution, mainly cocaine, to other areas of Mexico and the United States.
The report indicates that since 2020, 2,160 160 kilos of cocaine have been seized in various events, which has a special badge.
This is how the drug is classified and the brands used for that purpose:
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How is it classified?
The group makes use of templates and presses to classify cocaine shipments according to their purity and the investor participating in the purchase of the drug.
Among the brands they use are a crown, a deer’s head, the Gucci and Louis Vuitton brands, the 777 for good luck, the 666 – number of the beast – or CR7 alluding to Cristiano Ronaldo.
Types of brand according to cargo
‘$$$’ or ‘Tiger’
According to the chronology of arrests and seizures made by the SSC, on January 13, 2021, Marcos Antonio Munguía Villareal and Rodolfo Moreno Calderón were arrested in the Polanco area, Miguel Hidalgo Mayor’s Office.
The Munguía Villarreal Family is identified as one of the main generators of violence in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa because, according to data from the SSC, its members are responsible for the sale and trafficking of drugs to the United States, such as “Crak y Cocaine”, as well as executions for criminal rivalry.
In addition, Marcos Antonio’s trips to Mexico City were to agree on the purchase of cocaine, a drug that they tested for purity and to verify if it was useful for the production of “Crack”.
The seized cocaine had some labels with peso signs or the legend ‘TIGRE’ for identification.
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‘Lacoste’ and ‘Horseshoe’
On January 18, 2021, the overturning of a truck on the Río San Joaquín median in the Miguel Hidalgo city hall, uncovered a double bottom in which a total of 1,200 kilos of cocaine were hidden.
The main feature of the cocaine partitions was labels with the ‘Lacoste’ and ‘Herradura’ tequila brands.
‘Toyota’, ‘Prada’, ‘Nissan’ and ‘Coca-Cola’
On February 4, 2021, during a review in the Fraccionamiento Coapa Super neighborhood of the Tlalpan mayor’s office, the Ministry of Citizen Security managed to arrest two members of the Sinaloa Cartel, who possessed 800 kilos of cocaine.
The ‘frames’ of this seizure had labels from car brands such as Toyota, Nissan and Coca Cola. There is also the clothing brand Prada or the Master Series event, an annual freestyle competition in Spanish.
Other brands used are:
-LDA Deportivo Alajuelense
-Lexus
-Battle of the Red Bull Roosters (freestyle competition)
-Hummingbird
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‘Gucci’ and ‘CR7’
On May 5, 2021, the SSC secured a property in Prolongación Bosques de Reforma of the Cuajimalpa de Morelos mayor’s office, where members of the Sinaloa Cartel such as Gilberto Pérez “El Mex” were located.
The man had images on his cell phone of pressed cocaine packages with brands such as Gucci or the acronym CR7 (Cristiano Ronaldo).
The brand they use the most for the USA.
In particular, the Gucci brand logo is frequently used on the drug trafficked by the Sinaloa Cartel into the United States.
The United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has carried out various operations to trace and find the origin of drug packages with the Gucci logo.
In 2020, he reported the arrest of 27 people as a result of Operation Tripwire, an investigation that tracked down drugs bearing the said logo, identified and dismantled the organization’s operations from California and Arizona to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“The DEA Pittsburgh District Office, the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General, and our other law enforcement counterparts dismantled an international cocaine drug trafficking organization operating in Los Angeles, Tucson and Mexico,” Jonathan A. Wilson, special agent in charge of the DEA’s Philadelphia Field Division, said at the time.
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