LA Port Police Bust Huge Alleged Sinaloa Cartel

If you need to get away and hang around where no one will discover you, the huge, principally uninhabited deserts of Southern California are a good option — if you don’t thoughts excessive heat and brutal situations.

It’s also the right place to operate a clandestine narcotics operation, and that’s precisely what the LA Port Police and other law enforcement companies are accusing members of the infamous Mexican Sinaloa cartel of doing. In a July 28 raid, they found thousands and thousands of {dollars}’ value of crystal methamphetamine, extremely condensed liquid meth, and enormous wads of money.

The Port Police posted the bust to social media Monday:

In a assertion, the division said it was a multi-agency effort — and it wasn’t the only one they’ve efficiently carried out not too long ago:

On July 28, HIDTA 48, DEA Special Response Team, DEA Clandestine Laboratory Unit, Los Angeles Port Police, Hawthorne Police Department, and El Segundo Police Department executed a search warrant on the suspected methamphetamine manufacturing web site. The operation resulted in the seizure of 1,378 kilos of methamphetamine—both crystal and extremely condensed liquid—valued at roughly $12.5 million. Investigators also recovered roughly $80,000 in U.S. currency, and three Mexican nationals accountable for manufacturing the narcotics have been taken into custody.

This major seizure follows another profitable narcotics investigation in Riverside County, where officers recovered 119 kilograms of cocaine, two firearms, and recognized three suspects. In a separate business crimes operation, Cargo Theft Task Force Officers dismantled a subtle theft ring accountable for stealing more than $2 million in Nike merchandise. That investigation led to felony indictments against 12 people.

As our Ben Smith reported in July, we don’t have to fear about at least one cartel menace anytime soon:

Good Riddance: Sinaloa Cartel Kingpin ‘El Mayo’ Will Die Behind Bars

Crackdown? Eight Mexican Drug Cartels Are Designated ‘Foreign Terrorist Organizations’

Who are the Los Angeles Port Police, you may ask? They’re not practically as well-known as the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) or the California Highway Patrol (CHP), but they play a essential function in clamping down on the unhealthy guys attempting to get illicit items, weapons and medicine either in or out of the City of Angels:

The Los Angeles Port Police pressure is a specialised law enforcement company that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week to shield the Port of Los Angeles from threats whether or not by land, sea, air or our on-line world. Comprised of more than 300 sworn officers and civilian personnel, the pressure’s jurisdiction spans 7,500 acres along 43 miles of waterfront.

The Sinaloa Cartel (Cártel de Sinaloa), meanwhile, is one of the most highly effective unlawful drug syndicates in the Western Hemisphere and was shaped in the late Eighties in the Mexican state of the same identify. It was designated a terrorist group by the Trump administration in February 2025 — and that may spell severe bother for these guys, because that official label offers law enforcement vital extra prosecutorial instruments.

The cartels have been at warfare with — and in — the United States for years now. It’s always good to see us taking the combat to them. 

Editor’s Note: The American people overwhelmingly assist President Trump’s law and order agenda.

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