Subject: “El Mayo” Zambada Fentanyl Kingpin
...arrested.


An alleged Mexican drug kingpin suspected of flooding the United States with deadly fentanyl and who evaded authorities for decades is in US custody after he was apparently lured across the border by federal agents with another alleged leader of his cartel who was helping with his capture, according to a US law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76, the alleged co-founder and leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

Another alleged cartel leader, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 38, was also arrested, he said.

Mexican officials were informed of the arrests but did not participate in the operation.

The pair allegedly oversaw the trafficking of “tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl into the US along with related violence.”

That's what you might call a big f'ing deal.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25...