The date on which the drug lord will be sent to New York has not yet been set.but it is known that there is already a pending accusation against El Mayo in the Eastern District of New York, the same where his former partner Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was sentenced to life in prison.
Zambada (76 years old), who is currently detained in the border city of El Paso and He has already had two initial hearings before the courts, he had been a fugitive for almost 50 years in Mexico and was one of the most wanted criminals in the United States with a reward of 15 million dollars.
The New York indictment is one of at least four that El Mayo faces in the U.S., but it was updated in February of this year and It is the only one that mentions fentanyl trafficking.the powerful synthetic opioid that has sparked a major overdose crisis in the United States and become the focus of the country’s anti-drug policy.
The Justice Department itself emphasized this charge when it announced the news of the arrest and, according to a source close to the case told EFE, the links between the Sinaloa Cartel and the shipment of fentanyl to the US. They put “more pressure” on the authorities to arrest ‘El Mayo’.
Nevertheless, The circumstances of Zambada’s arrest are shrouded in mysteryrelated to the role that Joaquín Guzmán López, one of El Chapo’s sons, may have played. He was transferred to Chicago where he pleaded not guilty to the drug trafficking and money laundering charges against him.
The date on which the drug lord will be sent to New York has not yet been set, but it is known that there is already a pending indictment in the Eastern District of New York. https://t.co/9a7NMsWTHz
— EFE News (@EFEnoticias) August 7, 2024
El Mayo’s lawyer has maintained that his client “did not come to the U.S.” voluntarily.
“They tied his hands and feet, put a bag over his head and forced him onto the plane”Pérez told EFE, without naming those responsible but describing it as a “kidnapping.”
According to leaks to several American media, Guzmán López was the one who deceived El Mayo into going to the United States to benefit his brother Ovidio Guzmánextradited to US territory in September of last year.
The U.S. Justice Department, which presented the arrest of Zambada and Guzmán López as a blow to drug cartels, has declined to provide further information on this case.
The example of El Chapo, who managed to escape from the Puente Grande prison (Jalisco, Mexico) and Altiplano (state of Mexico) in 2001 and 2015 respectively, as well as the border location of El Paso worried the US Department of Justice. before choosing where to prosecute ‘El Mayo’, according to sources close to the case revealed to The New York Times.
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