A federal judge Texas on Wednesday rejected the US Justice Department’s request to give priority to the case opened in New York about the one of Texas against the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada.
The magistrada Kathleen Cardoneof the El Paso division, denied the request for an initial hearing to inform him of the charges he faces in New York City.
Zambada García, 76, is currently detained in the border city of El Paso, where he has already had two initial hearings before the state’s courts.
The drug trafficker He had been a fugitive in Mexico for more than 40 years and until his arrest on July 25, he was one of the most wanted criminals in the United States with a reward of 15 million dollars.
The US justice system argued that it was necessary for a hearing to take place on the New York charges and that, after the hearing, ‘El Mayo’ Zambada should be transferred to New York, while the defendant’s defense argued that He had already had a preliminary hearing on his charges in Texas, so another hearing was not necessary..
Wednesday’s decision considered that the obligations of said rule have already been fulfilled and that a new appearance is not required.
Why is ‘El Mayo’ Zambada afraid of being tried in New York?
The New York indictment is one of at least four that ‘El Mayo’ faces in the United States, which was updated in February of this year and is the only one that mentions fentanyl trafficking.
In the Eastern District of New York his partner Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán has already been sentenced to life imprisonmentHis son, Joaquín Guzmán López, was arrested last July along with Zambada García, in what the drug trafficker accuses was a “kidnapping” orchestrated by the leader of Los Chapitos.
The judge stressed on Wednesday that the US government can continue trying Other ways to get the transfersuch as dismissing the charges in Texas so that his arrest would be subject to those in New York; however, he warned that such a procedure would take time and that the accused retains his right to object.
