Mexican drug trafficker Ismael ‘The May’ Zambadaco-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel who was arrested by authorities on US soil more than a week ago, will be transferred from Texas a New York to be tried, his lawyer confirmed, Frank Pereza EFE.
The date on which the drug lord will be sent to prison has not yet been set. New Yorkbut it is known that there is already a pending charge against El Mayo in the Eastern District of New Yorkthe same one where his former partner Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Five decades as a fugitive from the ‘Mayo’
Zambada (76 years old), who is currently detained in the border city of The Step and has already had two initial hearings before the Justice, he had been a fugitive for almost 50 years Mexico and was one of the most wanted criminals by USA under a reward of 15 million dollars.
The accusation in New York is one of at least four that The May faces in EUbut it was updated in February of this year and is the only one that mentions the trafficking of fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that has generated a serious crisis of overdose deaths in USA and has become the center of the country’s anti-drug policy.
The Justice Department itself emphasized this charge when it announced the news of the arrest and, as it told EFE a source close to the case, the links of the Sinaloa Cartel with the shipment of fentanyl to EU They put “more pressure” on the authorities to stop ‘The May’.
Capture surrounded by questions
However, the circumstances of the arrest of Zambada are surrounded by unknowns, related to the role that could have played Joaquin Guzman Lopezone of the sons of El Chapo and was transferred to Chicago where he pleaded not guilty to charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.
The lawyer of The May He has maintained that his client “did not come to EU” voluntarily.
“They tied his hands and feet, put a bag over his head and forced him onto the plane,” he said. Pérez a EFEwithout naming those responsible but calling it a “kidnapping.”
An elaborate hoax
According to leaks to several American media, Guzman Lopez was the one who led The May tricked into EU to benefit his brother Ovid Guzmanextradited to US territory in September of last year.
The Department of Justice EUwhich presented the arrest of Zambada and of Guzman Lopez As a blow to the drug cartels, he has declined to provide further information on this case.
The example of El Chapowho managed to escape from the Puente Grande prison (Jalisco, Mexico) and the Altiplano (state of Mexico) in 2001 and 2015 respectively, as well as the border location of The Step worried the Justice Department EU before choosing where to process ‘The May‘, sources close to the case revealed to the newspaper The New York Times. EFE
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