Federal prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York informed the court and defense attorneys for "El Mayo" on Tuesday that "the Attorney General has authorized and directed this Office not to ...

The fifth superseding indictment was filed against Ismael Zambada Garcia or "El Mayo", 76, is the current top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel that controls a majority of the illicit drugs sold in ...

A status conference was held in the drug cartel case against Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1 at a federal courthouse in El Paso.

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

FILE - In this courtroom sketch, Ismael El Mayo Zambada, center, is seated beside his defense attorney Frank Perez, left, in federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept. 13, 2024.

Ismael Zambada, right, the reputed leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, appeared in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, Aug. 1, accompanied by his attorney, Frank Perez of Dallas.

Brooklyn Federal Court Magistrate Judge James Cho ordered he be held without bail. Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia, the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in the United States on July 25.

In this courtroom sketch, Ismael Zambada García, El Mayo, center, is seated beside his defense attorney Frank Perez, left, in Federal court, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 ...

Mexican authorities are considering bringing charges against those who handed over the country’s most-wanted drug lord and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia, to ...

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