Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada García, chief of the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested this Thursday, July 25, in El Paso, Texas (United States).
In keeping with the US Division of Justice, Mario Zambada was arrested at an airport within the border metropolis together with Joaquín Guzmán López, son of El Chapo Guzmán. The chief is presently being prosecuted, based on data from El Financiero.
The untouchable drug lord had escaped justice for years. Final February, the Japanese District Court docket of New York charged Mayo Zambada with manufacturing and distributing fentanyl.
Zambada, 76, had already been charged with organized crime, conspiracy to commit homicide, cash laundering and varied drug-related crimes, such because the trafficking of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine to the US, a rustic that was providing a reward of 15 million {dollars} to anybody who offered data resulting in his seize.
“Ismael Zambada García and different leaders employed hitmen who dedicated lots of of acts of violence, together with murders, assaults, kidnappings and acts of torture on the path of the defendant,” the indictment reads.
With the arrest of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, Ismael Zambada García grew to become the highest-ranking chief of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the ‘fourth Chapito’, arrested
The US Division of Justice introduced that Joaquín Guzmán López, son of El Chapo and chief of Los Chapitos, was arrested on Thursday, July 25.
El Güero and/or Güero Moreno have been captured together with Ismael Zambada García in El Paso, Texas (United States). Each felony leaders face accusations of trafficking and manufacturing fentanyl, in addition to different drug trafficking fees.
FBI takes credit score for the seize of ‘Mayo’ and Joaquin Guzman Lopez
By way of an announcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported on the arrest of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael El Mayo Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López.
“Director Wray highlights the arrest of two alleged cartel leaders by the FBI and DEA, because of the energy of our partnerships and shared mission of preserving People secure,” it reads.
First picture of ‘Mayo’ revealed after his arrest
Till not too long ago, only some photographs of Ismael Zambada have been recognized: one revealed within the wished file of the US Drug Enforcement Company (DEA) and the opposite with journalist Julio Scherer, who performed a private interview with him in 2014.
A couple of hours after the seize of the drug lord, his first {photograph} was launched. It reveals the chief of the Sinaloa Cartel together with his attribute mustache and carrying a checkered shirt that reveals a bandage on the correct facet of his chest.
How did Mario Zambada get into drug trafficking?
His story started in Sinaloa. Within the Eighties he was a part of the highest ranks of Mexican drug trafficking. He reached the highest in 1989, when the drug lord, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, the Boss of Bosses, was arrested.
His identify has appeared in US intelligence information for 40 years, the place he’s described as probably the most seen head of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Within the Nineteen Nineties, the Sinaloa felony group consolidated its group as a federation of cartels with three predominant related households: that of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán; that of Zambada; and that of Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, El Azul, who was murdered on June 7, 2014.
‘El Mayo’ and ‘Chapo’, founders of the Sinaloa Cartel
Ismael el Mayo Zambada was probably the most wished felony chief by American justice.
The latest indictment towards the founding father of the Sinaloa Cartel particulars that Zambada led at the very least 84 drug trafficking operations to the US, the primary since 1999.
Final century, Mayo Zambada and El Chapo, sentenced to life imprisonment, based the Sinaloa Cartel. After the arrest and extradition of Guzmán Loera, disputes broke out throughout the felony group with Los Chapitos for the highest of energy.
Regardless of the frictions, which have left lots of lifeless, they’ve managed to coordinate drug trafficking and share routes.
Throughout the drug lord’s years of freedom, he loved safety from corrupt Mexican authorities, based on the US indictment.
Who’re the kids of ‘Mayo’ Zambada?
Till July 25, the kids of Ismael Zambada García had not suffered the identical destiny as their father, who for many years lived on the run.
Concerned within the illicit enterprise, main factions of the Sinaloa Cartel within the operational or monetary half, among the heirs of Mayo have been steadily falling.
Authorities in Mexico and the US have recognized at the very least eight heirs of the Sinaloa drug lord by identify and surname.
Along with his spouse Rosario Niebla Cardoza, El Mayo Zambada had six youngsters: Vicente alias El Vicentillo, who was captured by US authorities in 2009. After a protracted course of and changing into a protected witness within the neighboring nation to the north, Zambada Niebla obtained his launch in 2021. His sisters are Midiam (or Miriam) Patricia, Mónica del Rosario, María Teresa and Modesta, who’re allegedly concerned within the monetary operations of the Sinaloa Cartel.
From his union with Margarita Imperial López, Ismael Zambada Imperial, El Mayito Gordo, was born, launched in 2022 by the US. With Leticia Ortiz Hernández, he would have his youngest son, Serafín Zambada Ortiz.
His half-brother, Ismael Zambada Sicairos, often known as El Mayito Flaco, has been included within the organizational charts of the Sinaloa Cartel because the highest-level chief within the felony group. In keeping with consultants, El Mayito Flaco can be the one to take the place of his father, who’s presently detained in the US.
