The son of Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and his former partner Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman were killed Thursday in Elpa, Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said. Suo was arrested.
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The son of Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and his former partner Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman were killed Thursday in Elpa, Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said. Suo was arrested.
“The Department of Justice has detained two additional individuals accused of being leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel, one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world,” the department said in a statement stated in the statement.
The statement said that Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of Zambada and “El Chapo,” faces multiple charges in the United States “for leading the criminal activities of the drug cartel, including its deadly fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking network.”
News of Guzmán Lopez's arrest was first reported by Reuters before the Justice Department's statement.
Two U.S. officials told Reuters that Zambada and Guzman Lopez were detained after landing on a private plane.
Zambada is one of the most influential traffickers in Mexican history and co-founded the Sinaloa drug cartel with El Chapo. life imprisonment.
After El Chapo's extradition, his criminal empire was inherited by his four sons, known as Los Chapitos or El Chapo, who took over his faction in the drug cartel and became the largest fentanyl exporter in the United States One of the businessmen.
Relations between Mayo and Los Chapitos have been tense since El Chapo's extradition, and arresting the two traffickers could spark instability and even violence in Mexico.
U.S. federal prosecutors in February charged Zambada with conspiring to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, which the Drug Enforcement Administration says is the leading cause of death in Americans ages 18 to 45.