Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was captured by the American justice system on July 25 at a private airport in El Paso, Texas.
The head of the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested while he was accompanied by Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the eldest son of “El Chapo”, who would have tricked him into traveling to the United States.
To date, Details about the capture of the 76-year-old drug trafficker remain a mysterywhich is why the Mexican government has demanded more information about this operation from the US authorities.
Despite the confusion generated by these actions, new data was revealed about the arrest of “El Mayo” Zambada and the way he arrived in the United States on board an airplane.
Initially, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), had reported that The pilot who took both drug traffickers across the border was an American citizen named Larry Curtis Parker.
However, during the last few hours, journalist Peniley Ramírez, who interviewed Parker, assured that he was not the person in charge of piloting the aircraft in which the members of the Sinaloa Cartel were traveling, but he was a man of Mexican nationality.
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According to what was reported in his column El Piloto mexicano, Ramírez released new information about the flight that took “El Mayo” to the United Stateswhich would have taken off from a “fumigation runway” in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
This pilot traveled with the radars turned off to avoid being tracked and when he was near El Paso he established radio contact with Ciudad Juárez to request permission to land.
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Upon landing, and when the authorities arrested Ismael Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, The pilot allegedly “ran out” of the plane; however, he was arrested and deported back to Mexico.
Despite his provisional detention, The identity of the pilot who took “El Mayo” to the US remains a mystery because the American justice system did not take his statements, his name or his personal information.
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