US places Sinaloa capo's kin on drug kingpin list

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department announced Tuesday that it has imposed sanctions on relatives of Sinaloa cartel drug lord Juan Jose Esparragoza who allegedly run gas stations, a shopping mall, a housing development and an industrial park in Mexico that invested or laundered drug money.

Six of the people named are wives or children of Esparragoza, alias “El Azul” or “The Blue One.” The department said he had at least two wives.