WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 16th August, 2018) The US and Mexican governments are establishing a joint team that will be based in Chicago to investigate and target drug lords and cartel financing, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Brian McKnight said during a press conference.
"In coordination with the Mexican government we will continue to investigate members of cartels who manufacture and transport drugs into Chicago and elsewhere within our nation� working together on high value targets, [and] cartel members who oversee these organizations," McKnight said alongside Mexican Federal officials at the press briefing in Chicago on Wednesday.
McKnight added that the bi-national effort will include an enforcement group based in Chicago that will also be aggressively attacking the cartels financial infrastructure by denying revenue going back down across the border that elevates the cartels power in Mexico.
The joint effort will also help break up the street gangs in the United States. These Mexican drug cartel organizations have stretched their influence around the world and have caused unseen levels of violence throughout Mexico, the official said.
The announcement came at the DEAs headquarters in Chicago following strategy meetings with leaders from the Mexican Attorney Generals Office and Mexican federal police, the Chicago Tribune reported.
