International Courant
WASHINGTON
The US Justice Division on Thursday introduced the arrests of Ismael Zambada Garcia (El Mayo) and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, each leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.
“The Justice Division has taken into custody two further alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the crucial violent and highly effective drug trafficking organizations on the planet. Ismael Zambada Garcia, or “El Mayo,” cofounder of the Cartel, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of its different cofounder, had been arrested as we speak in El Paso, Texas,” mentioned Legal professional Normal Merrick Garland in a press release.
The 2 males face a number of costs within the US for main the cartel’s legal operations, together with its lethal fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking networks, based on the assertion.
Garland mentioned El Mayo and Guzman Lopez be a part of a rising record of Sinaloa Cartel leaders and associates that the Justice Division is holding accountable within the US.
“That features the Cartel’s different cofounder, Joaquin Guzman Loera, or ‘El Chapo’; one other of El Chapo’s sons and an alleged Cartel chief, Ovidio Guzman Lopez; and the Cartel’s alleged lead sicario, Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, or ‘El Nini’,” mentioned the assertion.
“Fentanyl is the deadliest drug menace our nation has ever confronted, and the Justice Division is not going to relaxation till each single cartel chief, member, and affiliate liable for poisoning our communities is held accountable,” it added.
In 2016, the State Division introduced a $5 million reward for info resulting in El Mayo’s seize, which was later elevated to $15 million in September 2023.
El Mayo co-founded the cartel, based mostly in Tijuana, with “El Chapo,” who was apprehended in 2016 and is now serving a life sentence in a US maximum-security jail for costs together with drug trafficking and cash laundering. After “El Chapo’s” arrest, he assumed management of the cartel.
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