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Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76, the alleged co-founder and leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, was arrested Thursday in El Paso, Texas, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
He said another alleged leader of the cartel, 38-year-old Joaquin Guzman Lopez, was also arrested. Guzman is the son of the cartel’s notorious co-founder and former boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, 69, who is serving a life sentence in a US prison after being convicted five years ago on multiple charges.
Garland said both Zambada and Guzman Lopez face several charges for allegedly running the cartel’s criminal operations, including “deadly fentanyl production and trafficking networks.”
The Sinaloa Cartel, named after the Mexican state where the gang was founded in the late 1980s, is one of the world’s most powerful criminal groups, making billions of dollars each year smuggling drugs into the US and around the world.
The famous cartel boss Guzman, better known as “El Chapo”, was arrested in Guatemala in 1993 on murder and drug charges and extradited to Mexico. However, in 2001, he reportedly escaped from prison in Mexico in a laundry truck by bribing guards. He was arrested again in 2014 but escaped again through a tunnel.
Guzman was arrested for a third time in 2016 and subsequently extradited to the US.
Albania News Agency
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