Nicholas Douglas Quets came from a strong miliary background. (Quets Family )
Additionally, the Treasury Department designated the two sons of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera: Archivaldo Ivan Guzman Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar.
"Los Chapitos is a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa cartel at the forefront of fentanyl trafficking in the United States," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday. "At the Department of the Treasury, we are executing on President Trump’s mandate to completely eliminate drug cartels and take on violent leaders like ‘El Chapo’s’ children."
Bundles of blue pills containing fentanyl intercepted at the border. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Quets’ father, Doug, who served 20 years in the U.S. Army and another 20 years in federal law enforcement, expressed his family’s "deep and enduring gratitude to President Trump and his entire Cabinet for unwaveringly using every instrument of national power in the pursuit of justice for our beloved Nicholas."
"Nicholas Quets was an innocent American and proud U.S. Marine veteran whose bright future was stolen on October 18, 2024, when he was ambushed just south of the U.S. border by a heavily armed cell of the Sinaloa cartel," Quets said in a statement. "Cowards in cartel insignia – more than two dozen strong – pursued Nicholas and fatally shot him in the back, through the heart, during a failed carjacking, only after confirming his status as an American."
Quets added: "This was not just murder – it was a deliberate act of terror against a known American citizen."
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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers in Mexico City, Jan. 8, 2016. (Tomas Bravo/File Photo/Reuters)
Quets said the Treasury Department’s designation of the Sinaloa cartel as a foreign terrorist organization was a "vital first step in honoring Nicholas’ memory and protecting other Americans from suffering similar tragedies."
"Secretary Bessent’s decisive action to target the Sinaloa cartel’s financial networks strikes at the heart of this transnational threat," Quets said. "Disrupting their ability to move money, launder profits and bribe officials is essential to dismantling this criminal empire."
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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