El Mayo Zambada is among the most consequential traffickers in Mexico’s historical past.
Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and the son of his former companion, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, had been arrested in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, the U.S. Justice Division stated.
“The Justice Division has taken into custody two extra alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, probably the most violent and highly effective drug trafficking organizations on the planet,” the division stated in a press release.
Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of El Chapo, face a number of prices within the U.S. “for heading the Cartel’s legal operations, together with its lethal fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking networks,” the assertion stated.
The arrest of Guzman Lopez was first reported by Reuters, forward of the Justice Division assertion.
Two U.S. officers informed Reuters that Zambada and Guzman Lopez had been detained after touchdown in a non-public airplane.
Zambada is among the most consequential traffickers in Mexico’s historical past and co-founded the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo, who was extradited to the US in 2017 and is serving a life sentence in a most safety jail.
After El Chapo’s extradition, his legal empire was inherited by 4 of his sons — generally known as Los Chapitos, or Little Chapos — who took over his faction of the cartel and have become a few of the largest exporters of fentanyl to the US.
El Mayo and Los Chapitos have had a fractious relationship since El Chapo’s extradition, and the arrests of the 2 traffickers could set off instability and even violence in Mexico.
U.S. federal prosecutors in February charged Zambada with conspiracy to fabricate and distribute fentanyl, which the Drug Enforcement Administration says is the main explanation for loss of life for People between the ages of 18 and 45.
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