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According to journalist Alan Feuer, who cites three sources informed of the matter, Zambada left his hiding place in the mountains and moved to Culiacán because Joaquín Guzmán asked him to help mediate a dispute between two local politicians.
However, it was an ambush and once he arrived he was forced onto a plane and flown across the border to a small regional airport near El Paso, where FBI and Homeland Security Investigations agents were waiting for him.
Before, The Los Angeles Times had reported that Zambada believed he was going to meet with Guzmán and a Sinaloa politician.whose name was not revealed, nor the reasons for the meeting.
‘El Mayo’ will be moved from Texas to New York
On Tuesday it was reported that Zambada will be transferred from the El Paso prison, Texas, to Brooklyn, New York, where there is already a pending charge against him, in the same case for which his former partner Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was sentenced to life in prison.
NEW: The Mexican drug lord Mayo Zambada will soon be moved from El Paso to face prosecution in Brooklyn in the same courthouse where his former partner in crime, El Chapo, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, according to 4 people familiar with the matter.
Story TK.— Alan Feuer (@alanfeuer) August 6, 2024
The move is also due to security concerns, as El Paso is on the border with Mexico. Meanwhile, Guzman Lopez was transferred to Chicago.
Zambada’s lawyer, Frank Pérez, said that his client did not surrender voluntarily in the United States, but was kidnapped by Guzmán in order to hand him over.
The accusation in New York is one of at least four that “El Mayo” faces in the US, but it was updated in February of this year and is the only one that mentions the fentanyl traffickingthe powerful synthetic opioid that has sparked a serious crisis of overdose deaths in the United States and has become the focus of the country’s anti-drug policy. With information from agencies.
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