His indictment included 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and that was dropped from the Information he pleaded guilty to.

At the change of plea hearing, he acknowledged responsibility for some unspecified acts of violence for the Sinaloa cartel:

He acknowledged the cartel’s use of violence against rivals to promote business, and further admitted directly participating in and ordering others to commit such violence.

That will bump his guidelines up. The penalty is a mandatory minimum 10 years and maximum of life. If he is cooperating, the Government can ask for a sentence below the 10 years. If he isn't cooperating, he will be stuck with at least 10 years since he won't qualify for the safety valve due to his admission his offense involved acts of violence.

The court docket says his case is related to those of Rafael Feliz-Nunez, aka Changito Antrax, (arrested in Mexico, extradition request is pending) Jesus Quinonez-Flores, aka Chikiyo, and Eliseo Imperial-Castro, aka Cheyo Antrax, as well as the case of Sinaloa Cartel Plaza Boss Alfonso Arzate-Garcia, aka Aquiles, and his brother, Rene Arzate-Garcia, aka La Rana.

Also related: the case of Alfonso Limon-Sanchez, aka Poncho, who is under arrest in Mexico with an extraditon request pending.

The Antrax are allegedly the enforcers for Sinaloa, and in particular, Ismael Zambada-Garcia. El Chino reportedly worked for both, but primarily for the Zambadas. Another related case, according to the Government, is that of Joel Enrique Sandoval Romero, alias "El 19, who was arrested in February, 2014, a few days before El Chapo was captured when police got his cell phone number off the phone of another arrested cartel member, Daniel Fernández Domínguez "El Pelacas", who was arrested earlier in February.

His case is also related to those of Sinaloa co-leader Ismael Zambada-Garcia's sons, Serafin Zambada-Ortiz (who has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing), Ismael Zambada-Imperial, aka Mayito Gordo (arrested in November, 2014, with an extradition request pending), and Ismael Zambada-Sicairos, aka Mayito Flaco, who, like his father Ismael Zambada-Garcia, has not been apprehended.

El Chino Antrax was indicted in December, 2013. He was arrested in the Netherlands the same month, and extradited to San Diego in July, 2014. January, 2014.

In November 2014, Mexican law enforcement arrested Ismael Zambada-Imperial, aka Mayito Gordo; Alfonso Limon-Sanchez, aka Poncho; and Rafael Felix-Nunez, aka Changito.

In May, 2014, while he was in jail in Amsterdam awaiting extradition, El Chino's former girlfriend and the mother of one of his children was kidnapped, tortured and killed in Mexico.

Here's a wedding photo I found on a social media page in Mexico. The woman is not the woman who was killed, but a different woman with whom he also had a child.

While the Government crows about the quantities of drugs and money seized from the Sinaloa cartel, it's pretty clear these arrests, from El Chapo to El Chino Antrax and the Zambada sons, haven't made a dent. The drugs keep coming in from Mexico, while the money goes back. There's still enough of a profit to make it worth their while. It's time for a different strategy.