Angel Families Share Pain, Urge Crackdown on Cartels and Fentanyl

Angel Families Share Pain, Urge Crackdown on Cartels and Fentanyl

PHOENIX—Patricia Quets of Arizona said she once believed that if she worked hard and raised her children right, her family would remain untouched by cartel violence in Mexico. “I was wrong,” Quets said. On Oct. 18, 2024, her son, U.S. Marine Nicholas Quets, 31, was driving his F-250 with Arizona plates to Rocky Point, Mexico, when he encountered a Sinaloa cartel checkpoint. What followed, she told lawmakers in Phoenix on May 28, was a seven-mile…