Prosecutors purpose to maneuver Sinaloa drug cartel chief Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada’s case to federal court docket in Brooklyn, as Mexico mentioned they’re looking for extra info on the flight that led to the arrests of two suspected drug kingpins on American soil.
Zambada, often known as a high chief and co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, faces prices in a number of U.S. locales. He and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of infamous Sinaloa kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, had been arrested final month after being flown into New Mexico. Zambada has mentioned he was kidnapped in his residence nation en path to what he thought was a gathering with a Mexican official.
Mexican officers mentioned on Thursday they requested info from the U.S. Division of Justice on the flight that ferried Zambada and Guzman from Mexico to the U.S. Mexican officers sought the serial variety of the plane, FAA information, customs and border authorization paperwork, and the advance passenger info doc, amongst different gadgets. Officers mentioned the knowledge has not but been obtained.
Zambada, 76, has to this point appeared in U.S. federal court docket in El Paso, Texas, which is in one of many jurisdictions the place he has been indicted. He has pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy, drug conspiracy and different prices.
Federal prosecutors in Texas requested a court docket Thursday to carry a listening to to take the procedural steps wanted to maneuver him to the New York jurisdiction that features Brooklyn, the place the elder “El Chapo” Guzmán was convicted in 2019 of drug and conspiracy prices and sentenced to life in jail. El Chapo is serving a life sentence in a Supermax jail in Florence, Colorado, which homes quite a few high-profile inmates.
If prosecutors get their want, the case in opposition to Zambada in Texas would proceed after the one in New York.
A message looking for remark was despatched to Zambada’s attorneys.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn declined to remark. Zambada is charged there with operating a seamless legal enterprise, homicide conspiracy, drug offenses and different crimes.
In the meantime, Joaquín Guzmán López, the “El Chapo” son arrested with Zambada, has pleaded not responsible to drug trafficking and different prices in a federal court docket in Chicago.
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Zambada ran the Sinaloa cartel with the elder Guzmán because it grew from a regional presence into an enormous producer and smuggler of illicit fentanyl tablets and different medication to the US, authorities say.
Thought of an excellent negotiator, Zambada has been seen because the syndicate’s strategist and dealmaker, regarded as extra concerned in its day-to-day doings than the extra flamboyant Guzmán.
Retaining a decrease profile, Zambada had by no means been behind bars till his U.S. arrest final month.
He has typically been at odds with Guzmán’s sons, dubbed the Chapitos, or Little Chapos. Fearful that Zambada’s arrest might set off a violent energy wrestle inside the cartel, the Mexican authorities rapidly dispatched 200 particular forces troopers to the state of Sinaloa, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly pleaded with the cartel factions to not combat one another.
Federal authorities mentioned “El Mayo” and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, one of many infamous kingpin El Chapo’s 12 kids, had been arrested close to El Paso, Texas on July 25 with out incident after flying from Mexico.
