{"id":44317,"date":"2025-08-18T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/sinaloa-cartel-leader-ismael-el-mayo-zambada-set-to-plead-guilty-in-drug-trafficking-case\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:19:44","slug":"sinaloa-cartel-leader-ismael-el-mayo-zambada-set-to-plead-guilty-in-drug-trafficking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/sinaloa-cartel-leader-ismael-el-mayo-zambada-set-to-plead-guilty-in-drug-trafficking-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael &#8220;El Mayo&#8221; Zambada set to plead guilty in drug trafficking case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Former Mexican cartel kingpin <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/el-mayo-ismael-zambada-rafael-caro-quintero-no-death-penalty\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ismael &#8220;El Mayo&#8221; Zambada<\/a><\/span> is set to plead guilty next week in a drug trafficking case that accuses him of ordering torture, plotting murders and flooding the U.S. with cocaine, heroin and other illicit drugs.<\/p>\n<p>A Brooklyn federal judge on Monday scheduled an Aug. 25 change of plea hearing for Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico&#8217;s Sinaloa cartel. The development comes two weeks after federal prosecutors said they wouldn&#8217;t seek the death penalty against him.<\/p>\n<p>Zambada, 77, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/sinaloa-cartel-leader-pleads-not-guilty-ismael-el-mayo-zambada-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">pleaded not guilty<\/a><\/span> last year to drug trafficking and related charges, including gun and money laundering offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Under Zambada and co-founder Joaqu\u00edn <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-miami-attorney-letter-approval\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;El Chapo&#8221;<\/a><\/span> Guzm\u00e1n&#8217;s leadership, prosecutors allege, the Sinaloa cartel evolved from a regional player into the largest drug trafficking organization in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Brian M. Cogan&#8217;s order on Monday didn&#8217;t provide details about Zambada&#8217;s guilty plea and didn&#8217;t list the charges he&#8217;s expected to plead guilty to. The same judge sentenced Guzm\u00e1n to life behind bars after he was convicted on drug trafficking charges in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Messages seeking comment were left for Zambada&#8217;s lawyers. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney&#8217;s office in Brooklyn declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Zambada was arrested in Texas last year after what he has described as a kidnapping in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Sought by U.S. law enforcement for more than two decades, he was taken into custody after arriving in a private plane at a Texas airport with Guzm\u00e1n&#8217;s son, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/el-chapo-son-wont-face-death-penalty-us-joaquin-guzman-lopez\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Joaqu\u00edn Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez.<\/a><\/span> Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez has pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges in Chicago; his brother, Ovidio Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, pleaded guilty last month.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/sinaloa-drug-cartel-leader-ismael-el-mayo-zambada-letter-kidnapping\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Zambada has said he was kidnapped<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Mexico and hauled to the U.S. by Guzm\u00e1n L\u00f3pez, whose lawyer denies those claims.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Zambada presided over a vast and violent operation, with an arsenal of military-grade weapons, a private security force akin to an army, and a corps of &#8220;sicarios,&#8221; or hitmen, who carried out assassinations, kidnappings and torture. Just months before his arrest, he ordered the murder of his own nephew, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 5, prosecutors told Cogan in a letter that Attorney General Pam Bondi had directed them <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/el-mayo-ismael-zambada-rafael-caro-quintero-no-death-penalty\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">not to pursue the death penalty<\/a><\/span> for Zambada.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/15\/c77ad1da-19ad-4ced-93f3-177d3fed0a5f\/thumbnail\/620x465\/887bf6d67aba6c711d62a58c03e500f7\/2025-01-15t165900z-576836223-rc2gacags2no-rtrmadp-3-usa-mexico-drugs-zambada.jpg#\" alt=\"Alleged Mexican kingpin 'El Mayo' sticks with US lawyer who represented son \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/15\/c77ad1da-19ad-4ced-93f3-177d3fed0a5f\/thumbnail\/620x465\/887bf6d67aba6c711d62a58c03e500f7\/2025-01-15t165900z-576836223-rc2gacags2no-rtrmadp-3-usa-mexico-drugs-zambada.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/15\/c77ad1da-19ad-4ced-93f3-177d3fed0a5f\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/0f00e4e23dde1a8a22b42bba6b0de5d5\/2025-01-15t165900z-576836223-rc2gacags2no-rtrmadp-3-usa-mexico-drugs-zambada.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Accused Mexican kingpin Ismael &#8220;El Mayo&#8221; Zambada listens to the court interpreter as he holds his earpiece as the judge questions him about possible attorney conflicts during a hearing at court in New York, Jan. 15, 2025, in this courtroom sketch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Jane Rosenberg\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the July arrests and Zambada&#8217;s allegations of kidnapping,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/culiacan-mexico-hundreds-dead-missing-cartel-fighting\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">horrific fighting erupted<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Mexico between a cartel faction loyal to him and another tied to the &#8220;Chapitos,&#8221; Guzm\u00e1n&#8217;s sons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chapitos have used corkscrews, electrocution and hot chiles to\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/el-chapo-sons-fed-rivals-to-tigers-corkscrews-electrocution-hot-chiles-torture-justice-department-says\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">torture their rivals<\/a><\/span>\u00a0while some of their victims were &#8220;fed dead or alive to tigers,&#8221; according to an indictment released by the U.S. Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, bodies have appeared across Sinaloa, often left slung out on the streets or in cars with either\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/corpses-sombreros-mexico-cartel-violence-sinaloa-leaders-arrested-us\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sombreros on their heads<\/a><\/span>\u00a0or pizza slices or boxes pegged onto them with knives. The pizzas and sombreros have become informal symbols for the warring cartel factions, underscoring the brutality of their warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Mexico sent <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexico-sends-26-cartel-members-deal-trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">26 high-ranking cartel figures<\/a><\/span> to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks smuggling drugs across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Those handed over to U.S. custody include Abigael Gonz\u00e1lez Valencia, a leader of &#8220;Los Cuinis,&#8221; a group closely aligned with notorious cartel\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/brother-in-law-wanted-cartel-cjng-kingpin-el-mencho-sentenced-30-years-us-prison\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jalisco New Generation<\/a><\/span>, or CJNG. Another defendant, Roberto Salazar, is wanted in connection to the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff&#8217;s deputy. Other prominent figures have ties to the Sinaloa Cartel and other violent drug trafficking groups.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Mr. Trump\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-tells-military-to-target-latin-american-drug-cartels-source-says\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">directed the military<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to target drug cartels in Latin America, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News. 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