DEEP DIVE — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a co-founder and chief of Mexico’s infamous Sinaloa Cartel, has entered a not responsible plea to 17 drug trafficking expenses, following within the footsteps of Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of the cartel’s founder, and setting the stage for a high-profile authorized battle this fall hat might reveal the depths of cartel operations. Prosecutors and U.S. officers additionally hope that battle at the least places a dent within the lethal, multi-billion-dollar site visitors in fentanyl, a drug that has been blamed for the deaths of multiple million Individuals.
Lopez, 38, was arrested in late July, a regulation enforcement coup that drew international consideration on condition that his father is Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Sinaloa co-founder who till his newest seize in 2016 (he had escaped at the least twice earlier than) was thought of one of many world’s most harmful criminals.
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