"In his guilty plea, El Chapo's son told the judge how he kidnapped Zambada. After luring him to a meeting, he led him into a room where he was ambushed by several men, who tied him up, put a bag over his head, and loaded him into a pickup truck. They then took him to a nearby airstrip and forced him onto a private plane."
"Guzman Lopez gave him a drink laced with sedatives, and the plane took off with both drug lords aboard. El Mayo had never set foot in prison during his criminal career. In the court statement, the 39-year-old drug trafficker acknowledges that the United States government did not solicit, induce, sanction, approve, or condone the kidnapping. The aircraft in which Ismael Zambada was transported.Cesar Contreras (EFE)"
Ismael El Mayo Zambada built the Sinaloa cartel into a multi-billion-dollar international trafficking empire dealing in cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and other drugs. He remained a fugitive for more than 50 years despite a $15 million bounty, until his arrest in July 2024 at the Santa Teresa airport in El Paso. Joaquín Guzmán López pleaded guilty in Chicago to drug trafficking and admitted to kidnapping Zambada, describing how men ambushed, restrained, sedated, and flew him out on a private plane. The guilty plea states the U.S. government did not solicit or condone the kidnapping, while questions about U.S. involvement persist.
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