AMERICAN RATS: MARGARITO FLORES & PEDRO FLORES
MEXICO/ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
🐁🐁 Flores and twin, Margarito are Mexican-American Rats who netted $227 million for El Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel. Not only were Pedro and Margarito Flores allowed to sell tons of cocaine and heroin while in government employ, upon their return from Mexico after a several year absence from Chicago, the twins orchestrated a massive reverse sting on their drug customers, mostly hailing from cities like Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Phone calls were made to let various junior varsity kingpins around the country that “The Twins” were back in business. Enticing deals were offered- bring enough money for 10 keys and we’ll give you another 40 on consignment, offers no sane drug dealer could refuse. Of course, when the various dealers showed up to the deals in parking lots and side-streets around Chicago, Federal agents were waiting to pounce.
Many of the dealers being set-up by the Flores twins ended up with longer prison terms than the brothers themselves, despite the fact that they would have had no dope to sell without the government facilitating the Flores’ operation, a deep injustice if there ever was one. And on top of that, the brothers were likely still doing deals off-the-record to make money for themselves. At least one shipment — a 276-kilogram load of heroin- made it to Chicago and was distributed on the streets…the Feds claimed they didn’t know anything about it when the story came out during later court proceedings. The brothers claimed they needed the cash to keep the Cartel happy so they could keep working as secret agents.
The key domino that fell thanks to the Flores brothers’ work in Mexico was that of Vicente Zambada-Niebla. Zambada-Niebla was the highest ranking executive of the Sinaloa cartel in US custody until “El Chapo” Guzman’s arrest in 2014 , and his father, known as “El Mayo” is now considered the most powerful single narco-trafficker in Mexico since “El Chapo’s” arrest. During their undercover work, the Flores twins had secretly tape recorded Vicente in Mexico orchestrating the delivery of huge drug shipments, and Zambada-Niebla was indicted. When he was captured and brought to Chicago, “El Mayo’s” son claimed he was immune from prosecution because he, too had been working for the D.E.A., providing intelligence reports on rival cartels in exchange for the FBI and DEA allowing “tons of illicit drugs continued to be smuggled into Chicago and other parts of the United States.”
They worked as a team, and were often simply referred to as “the twins.” They claimed to have turned themselves in because a war had broken out between the Sinaloa Cartel and its rivals, and they feared for their family’s life. It wasn’t the first time, Margarito testified, recounting how he’d been kidnapped in 2004. “I thought I was going to die,” he said of the harrowing experience, during which he was stripped, starved and blindfolded while locked in a cell for 16 days. He was dumped in the desert after his brother Pedro intervened, and forced to walk miles in the dark as wild cats screamed around him.
Flores first met Chapo soon after in May 2005, he testified, after a plane ride to the mountains and a bumpy ride up a long driveway — where he saw a naked man chained to a tree “looking down at us.” The runty kingpin wasn’t particularly impressed with Flores, he recalled, saying Chapo immediately mocked his jean shorts and jewelry.
Before joining with Chapo, Flores ran cocaine, heroin and meth across Chicago and into other major metropolises, including Washington, DC, and Minneapolis. The twins became the prosecutors star witnesses in El Chapo’s trial. Guzmán was found guilty of all counts on 12 February 2019, and was sentenced on 17 July 2019 to life in prison plus 30 years and ordered to forfeit more than $12.6 billion. He is now serving his sentence at ADX Florence, the nation’s most secure supermax prison under Federal Register Number 89914-053. Pedro and Margarito Flores are now in the Federal Witness protection program, their immediate family members were given new identities and $300,000 to pay for living expenses.
WATCH MORE “AMERICAN RATS” EPISODES:
NICKY BARNES AND FRANK LUCAS – Episode 1 (NEW YORK CITY)
https://youtu.be/xmhGFhF3Kqo
ALPO MARTINEZ – Episode 2 (NEW YORK CITY)
https://youtu.be/u4FSS2nxwNg
SAMMY THE BULL GRAVANO – Episode 3 (NEW YORK CITY)
https://youtu.be/Fz1uYkmFIXk
RAYFUL EDMOND – Episode 4 (WASHINGTON DC)
https://youtu.be/OMVULM4UrFc
OSCAR BLANDON – Episode 5 (LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA)
https://youtu.be/-_h-BxmJNRU
WHITE BOY RICK – Episode 6 (DETROIT, MICHIGAN)
https://youtu.be/NmktsLSCAFg
FLORES TWINS – Episode 7 (CHICAGO, ILLINOIS)
https://youtu.be/LHS2EtCG_gU
6IX9INE & DESIREE PEREZ – Episode 8 (SEASON FINALE)
https://youtu.be/r8l9NgVdZkQ
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