The US accuses ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, still on the run for the fifth time

A promoter of New York charged this Thursday for the fifth time Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambadafounder and leader of Sinaloa Cartel whose whereabouts are unknown, for the crimes of manufacturing and distributing fentanyl in U.S.

The inspector Breon S. Paz of Eastern District of New York issued this afternoon before a federal court in Brooklyn This fifth accusation, which adds to the previous ones handed down for crimes such as driving a criminal organization, murder, money laundry and various crimes related to drug trafficking.

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According to the prosecutor, Zambada “continues to lead the Sinaloa Cartelone of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world”, and remember that the crimes attributed to Zambada span ten years, from 2014 to 2024.

The charging order qualifies fentanyl as “the deadliest drug U.S have known”And the Sinaloa Cartel as“the biggest drug trafficker fentanyl“for this country.

Although the United States has frozen its bank accounts and other companies, and although it has managed Mexico stop your son Vincent -and then extradited him to the USA in 2010-, ‘El Mayo’ Zambada He was never in prison.

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Furthermore, the Public Prosecutor’s Office increased the reward from 5 to 15 million dollars for anyone who provides information that leads to Zambada’s arrest, information that can transmit to the Department of Justice by phone, email and even social media.

From the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, the famous Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán was arrested in Mexico, extradited and sentenced to life in prison plus thirty years, and the son of ‘El Chapo’, Ovido Guzmanis also detained in a prison Colorado.

Source: Elcomercio

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