Mayo Zambada will be transferred from Texas to New York

he is a drug dealer Mexico Ishmael “El Mayo” Zambada, the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel who was arrested by authorities on US soil more than a week ago, will be transferred from Texas to New York to face trial, his spokesman confirmed last night This March. a lawmakerFrank Pérez, EFE.

The date on which the cap of the a drug sent to New York, but it is known that a accusation pending against “El Mayo” in the Eastern District of New York, the same one where his associate Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was sentenced to life in prison.

Zambada (76 years old), who is currently arrest in the border city of El Paso and there have already been two listeners letters before the Justicehas been a fugitive in Mexico for almost 50 years and was one of the most wanted criminals in the United States under a reward of 15 million dollars.

The accusation in New York is one of at least four that face “El Mayo” in the US, but it was updated in February of this year and is the only one that refers to drug trafficking. fentanylthe powerful synthetic opioid that has created a serious crisis of overdose deaths in the United States and has become the centerpiece of the country’s anti-drug policy.

Possession Division from Justice He emphasized this accusation when he announced the news of the arrest and, according to what a source close to the case told EFE, the links between the Sinaloa Cartel and the deportation fentanyl The US put “more pressure” on the authorities to stop “El Mayo.”

However, Zamabada’s detention situation is surrounded by unknown, related with the part he might have played Joaquín Guzmán Lópezone of the sons of “El Chapo” and who was transferred to Chicago where he pleaded not guilty to the charges of drug trafficking and money burning against him.

he is a lawmaker of “El Mayo” has insisted that his client “did not come to the United States.” voluntarily.

“They tied his hands and feet, put a bag over his head and forced him to get on the plane,” Pérez told EFE, without identifying those responsible but describing him as ” abduction.”

According to leaks to several media AmericansGuzmán López was the one who lured “El Mayo” to the US to benefit his brother Ovidio Guzmán, who was extradited to US territory last September.

he is Division from Justice of the US, which led to the arrest of Zambada and Guzmán López as a blow to the drug trafficking cartels, has refused to provide more information on this case.

he is example of “El Chapo”, who arrived run away of Puente Grande prison (Jalisco, Mexico) and the Altiplano (Mexico state) in 2001 and 2015 respectively, as well as the disturbing El Paso border situation of the Division from Justice from the United States before choosing where to sue ‘El Mayo’, as revealed by sources close to the case to the New York Times.