US Offers $8 Million Reward for Cartel Leaders Johnny and Jose Hurtado Olascoaga

Cartel Leaders Targeted by US Government

• 🎯 The U.S. government is offering a total reward of $8 million for information leading to the capture of two brothers, co-leaders of the Nova Familia Michoacana cartel.
• 💰 The reward is split, with $5 million for Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga and $3 million for Jose Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga.
• 📍 Both brothers are believed to be fugitives currently residing in central Mexico.

Nova Familia Michoacana Cartel Activities

• 💊 The cartel is known for flooding American communities with drugs such as methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl.
• 🚁 They also employ weaponized drones to attack rivals and Mexican security forces, and for delivering drugs.
• 💸 The cartel's leader sister, Adita Hurtado Olascoaga, faces charges for money laundering drug profits through clothing stores from the US back to Mexico.

Government Designations and Sanctions

• आतंकवादी Earlier this year, the Trump administration designated the Nova Familia Michoacana cartel as a foreign terrorist organization.
• ⚖️ This designation expands the tools the federal government can use to dismantle the cartel's international drug trafficking empire.
• 🏦 The U.S. Treasury has announced economic sanctions against the cartel's leaders and their siblings.
• 📜 The brothers have been charged by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Georgia with crimes related to the manufacture, distribution, and importation of massive quantities of drugs into the United States.