Last Updated: January 19, 2026

Juan Carlos MORGAN HUERTA

Aliases

Cacayo

Nationality

Mexico

DoB

1974-09-25

Address

Campillo 86, Piso 2, Loc. 214, Nogales, 84030, Sonora, Mexico

Reg. ID

MOHJ740925HSRRRN00, C.U.R.P.

Official reason

As a Nogales, Sonora-based “plaza boss” for the Sinaloa Cartel, Juan Carlos Morgan Huerta (a.k.a. “Cacayo”) (Morgan Huerta) manages cartel operations in Nogales and oversees the trafficking of multi-ton quantities of drugs—to include cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and illicit fentanyl—from Mexico into the United States. Morgan Huerta utilizes tr...

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1887

Date of listing

2023-11-07

Program information

Authority

US

Program

Executive Order 14059 of December 15, 2021 Imposing Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in the Global Illicit Drug Trade

Regime

OFAC-horizontal

Target State

Drugs

Measures

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry

Official Information

President Biden signed a new Executive Order (E.O.) to modernize the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s sanctions authorities used to combat the illicit drug trade. This E.O. will provide the Treasury Department with new tools to tackle changes in the global illicit drug trade that substantially contributed to over 100,000 American overdose deaths i...

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/17/2021-27505/imposing-sanctions-on-foreign-persons-involved-in-the-global-illicit-drug-trade