Mexican Cartel Are Now Shooting At US Drones On The Mexican Border

Alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel shot at a drone operated by a private United States security firm at the Mexico-U.S. border, video footage appears to indicate.

Jaeson Jones, a border correspondent with Newsmax, presented what he described as exclusive footage of the incident.

The Newsmax broadcast earlier this week introduced the footage with a graphic entitled “War At Our Doorstep,” with anchor Jenn Pellegrino beginning by saying, “Mexican cartels are at war with the U.S. government and the Biden Administration refuses to do anything about it.”

“What you are seeing is a Sinaloa Cartel base 300 meters inside Mexico from the U.S. border,” Jones told Pellegrino in an interview after the footage aired. “… These cartel members were literally shooting into the U.S. at this drone.”


The video shows what Jones called “Chapitos’ people” on the top of a “flat mountain,” as confirmed to him by one of the drone’s operators. Jones identified the drone operators as employees of an unnamed private security firm.

“Los Chapitos” is a nickname for the sons of imprisoned drug lord and former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán who are themselves alleged active cell leaders in the Sinaloa Cartel. One of these sons, Ovidio Guzmán, was arrested on January 5 by federal authorities and has been charged with cartel-related illegal activities.