锡纳罗亚集团头目父子被控毒品恐怖主义：美国首例同类起诉
2025年5月13日，美国司法部宣布，一份起诉书当日在位于加利福尼亚州圣迭戈市的联邦法院（加州南区）启封：锡纳罗亚贩毒集团旗下贝尔特兰·莱瓦组织（Beltran Leyva Organization）的两名关键头目，Pedro Inzunza Noriega 与其子 Pedro Inzunza Coronel，被控毒品恐怖主义、为恐怖主义提供物质支持、贩毒与洗钱。这是美国首例以毒品恐怖主义罪名起诉锡纳罗亚集团头目的案件；同案另有五名该组织头目被控贩毒与洗钱，案号 25cr1505。
司法部长 Pamela Bondi 说：「锡纳罗亚集团是一个复杂、危险的恐怖组织，瓦解它需要新颖、有力的法律回应。他们肆意伤害美国民众却不受惩罚的日子结束了，我们将寻求判处这些恐怖分子终身监禁。」加州南区联邦检察官 Adam Gordon 说，这份起诉书正是司法部及其执法伙伴全力打击锡纳罗亚集团时应有的正义模样。
检方称，贝尔特兰·莱瓦组织是墨西哥最暴力的贩毒组织之一，控制包括 Tijuana 在内的多处地盘，靠枪战、谋杀、绑架与酷刑维持运作。父子二人被指共同经营全球规模最大、技术最复杂的芬太尼生产网络之一，多年来向美国走私了数万公斤芬太尼。2024年12月3日，墨西哥执法部门突袭锡纳罗亚州多处由父子二人控制的地点，查获1,500公斤（逾1.65吨）芬太尼，为全球历来最大的一次芬太尼查获。
这份起诉书直接源于特朗普总统的第14157号行政令：锡纳罗亚集团被列为外国恐怖组织，国务卿于2025年2月20日正式作出该认定。它也是加州南区新设的毒品恐怖主义组（检察官 Gordon 4月11日就职后组建）递交的首份起诉书。案件由联邦检察官助理 Joshua Mellor 与 Matthew Sutton 承办，调查方为国土安全调查局（HSI）与联邦调查局（FBI）。
按起诉书所列，毒品恐怖主义罪最高可判终身监禁、最低刑期20年并处2,000万美元罚金；为恐怖主义提供物质支持罪最高20年；持续犯罪集团等其余罪名最高亦可达终身监禁。司法部强调，起诉书只是指控，两名被告在被法庭定罪之前均属无罪推定。（来源：美国司法部）
Sinaloa Cartel Leaders, Father and Son, Charged with Narco-Terrorism in First U.S. Case of Its Kind
On May 13, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that an indictment had been unsealed that day in federal court in San Diego, California (the Southern District of California): Pedro Inzunza Noriega and his son, Pedro Inzunza Coronel, key leaders of the Beltran Leyva Organization, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, were charged with narco-terrorism, providing material support to terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering. It is the first indictment in the nation to charge alleged Sinaloa Cartel leaders with narco-terrorism. Five other leaders of the organization were charged with drug trafficking and money laundering in the same case, No. 25cr1505.
"The Sinaloa Cartel is a complex, dangerous terrorist organization and dismantling them demands a novel, powerful legal response," said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. "Their days of brutalizing the American people without consequence are over — we will seek life in prison for these terrorists." U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California said the indictment is what justice looks like when the full measure of the Department of Justice and its law enforcement partners is brought to bear against the Sinaloa Cartel.
Prosecutors say the Beltran Leyva faction has been considered one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations to operate in Mexico, controlling numerous territories including Tijuana and sustaining its operations through shootouts, murders, kidnappings and torture. The father and son allegedly worked together to run one of the largest and most sophisticated fentanyl production networks in the world, trafficking tens of thousands of kilograms of fentanyl into the United States over the past several years. On December 3, 2024, Mexican law enforcement raided multiple locations in Sinaloa controlled by the pair and seized 1,500 kilograms (more than 1.65 tons) of fentanyl, the largest seizure of fentanyl in the world.
The indictment is a direct result of President Trump's Executive Order 14157, under which the Sinaloa Cartel was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization, a designation the Secretary of State made on February 20, 2025. It is also the first indictment from the Southern District of California's newly formed Narco-Terrorism Unit, established after U.S. Attorney Gordon was sworn in on April 11. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joshua Mellor and Matthew Sutton and was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the FBI.
Under the indictment, narco-terrorism carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, a mandatory minimum of 20 years and a $20 million fine; providing material support to terrorism carries up to 20 years; and the remaining counts, including continuing criminal enterprise, carry up to life in prison. The Justice Department stressed that an indictment is merely an allegation and that both defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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