ICE Puts $10M on Cartel Fugitive
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is keeping a $10 million reward on the table for information that could lead to the arrest or conviction of Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar. He is described by authorities as a major figure in the Sinaloa Cartel faction known as “Los Chapitos.”
ICE says Guzmán Salazar should be considered armed and dangerous. The agency’s public wanted file lists aliases including “Tocallo” and “Chapito,” and says his last known location was Culiacán, Sinaloa. He is also described as being born in Sinaloa, Mexico, with brown eyes, brown hair, and fair skin.
According to the case details, he faces charges tied to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, running a continuing criminal enterprise, and money laundering. He is also wanted in connection with an HSI investigation in Nogales, Arizona, related to the Sinaloa Cartel.
Authorities say the group took over trafficking networks built by their father, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. Since 2008, the faction has been linked to smuggling cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana into the United States. Investigators also connect the group to violence meant to protect its operations, including murders, kidnappings, and assaults.
One of the most notorious moments tied to the cartel came during the “Battle of Culiacán” in October 2019, when gunmen moved to free a captured associate. ICE says that kind of firepower and organization shows why the group remains such a serious threat.
The reward is part of the Department of State’s Narcotics Rewards Program and is meant to help break up a network officials say has played a major role in fentanyl trafficking. U.S. officials continue to blame cartel supply chains for flooding American communities with a deadly drug that has fueled thousands of overdose deaths each year.
Anyone with useful information can contact HSI Nogales at 520-335-7315 or email [email protected]. The national tip line at 866-DHS-2-ICE is also available. Authorities say tips do not have to come from inside the United States to be useful.
$10M REWARD FOR "CHAPITOS" SINALOA CARTEL LEADER
Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and his three brothers known as the “Chapitos” inherited drug trafficking networks from their notorious father Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.
Guzman Salazar is a fugitive and should be considered… pic.twitter.com/WDSuspB0NF
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) April 14, 2026
The message from ICE is blunt: the hunt is still on, the reward is real, and the pressure on one of the cartel’s most violent figures is not going away.