A Mexican drug lord, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a top leader and co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, may be heading to trial in New York City after prosecutors filed a request to move him from Texas. Zambada, 76, has been indicted in multiple U.S. jurisdictions and faces charges including racketeering conspiracy, drug conspiracy, murder conspiracy, and other crimes.
Zambada, who was arrested in the U.S. last month along with a son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He has appeared in federal court in El Paso, Texas, and prosecutors are seeking to transfer him to New York, where the elder Guzmán was previously convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2019.
