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☆ Ryan James Wedding: Former Olympic snowboarder wanted in US drug trafficking case
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Los Angeles AP —A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed four people, authorities said Thursday. Wedding competed for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, authorities said. Wedding faces separate drug trafficking charges in Canada that date back to 2015, said Chris Leather, chief superintendent with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Wedding previously was convicted in the US of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and was sentenced to prison in 2010, federal records show. Estrada said US authorities believe that after Wedding’s release, he resumed drug trafficking and has been protected by the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico.

Persons: Ryan James, Martin Estrada, “, ” Estrada, Ryan, Adam Pretty, Krysti Hawkins, Chris Leather, ” Leather, Estrada Organizations: Los Angeles AP, FBI, Authorities, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Locations: Canada, Americas, Canadian, Mexico, United States, Colombia, California, Los Angeles, Salt Lake, Park City , Utah, Florida , Michigan, Salt Lake City, Sinaloa

☆ Mexico ex-drug czar sentenced to more than 38 years in U.S. prison over cartel bribes
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Genaro Garcia Luna, who for several years led Mexico’s fight against the country’s violent drug trade, was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 38 years in U.S. prison for accepting bribes from the cartels he was supposed to fight. In announcing the 460-month sentence, Cogan said Garcia Luna should have “some light at the end of the tunnel,” crediting him for his work teaching fellow inmates at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. But the judge said Garcia Luna lived a “double life,” with the harm he caused outweighing his good deeds. Garcia Luna served as Mexico’s public security minister from 2006 to 2012. Before learning the sentence, Garcia Luna said in court that Mexico’s government and criminal groups had smeared him.

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☆ Netflix airing NFL games on Christmas will be the streaming giant's biggest test for its next area of growth
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In today's big story, Netflix's earnings report comes as Wall Street wonders if the king of streaming can keep its crown . Business Insider's Lucia Moses outlined investors' key questions about Netflix ahead of its third-quarter earnings call this afternoon. The NFL is coming to the streamer this Christmas, with Netflix showing two games on the holiday.

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☆ Claudia Sheinbaum to be sworn in as first female president of Mexico, a country with pressing problems
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Mexico City Associated Press —Claudia Sheinbaum will take the oath of office Tuesday as Mexico’s first female president in more than 200 years of independence, promising to protect an expanded social safety net and fight for the poor like her predecessor, but facing pressing problems. Sheinbaum romped to victory in June with nearly 60% of the vote, propelled largely by the sustained popularity of her political mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “So, where López Obrador was charismatic, Claudia Sheinbaum will have to be effective.”He is not leaving her an easy situation. Things with its northern neighbor were already tense after López Obrador said he was putting relations with the US embassy “on pause” after public criticism of the proposed judicial overhaul. López Obrador built a massive new oil refinery and poured money into the state-owned oil company.

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Zambada would later claim that he was “ambushed” and “kidnapped” by Guzmán López and hand-delivered to US authorities. It remains unclear why Guzmán López surrendered to US authorities and brought Zambada with him. Forensic investigators remove a body from the street in La Costerita, Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. “In Sinaloa, there wasn’t the violence that there is now,” the Mexican president said Thursday. Mexican Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said on Tuesday that at least two soldiers died last week during the violence in Sinaloa.

Persons: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, López Obrador, Washington, Ismael “ El, Ismael “ El Mayo ” Zambada, Joaquín Guzmán López, “ El, Guzmán, Zambada, ”, “, Guzmán López, ” Zambada, Mexico Ken Salazar, Eduardo Verdugo, Ruben Rocha Moya, Luis Cresencio Sandoval Organizations: CNN, Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael “ El Mayo ”, US Department of Justice, Gov, Armed Forces, Mexican Locations: United States, Sinaloa, El Paso , Texas, Mexico, ‘, La Costerita, Culiacan, “

☆ Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada: Mexican drug cartel leader set to be arraigned
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the powerful longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in New York on a 17-count indictment accusing him of narcotics trafficking and murder. Zambada later said in a letter that he was forcibly kidnapped in Mexico and brought to the US by Guzmán López, the son of the imprisoned Sinaloa co-founder Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. If convicted on all charges, Zambada, 76, faces a minimum sentence of life in prison and would be eligible for the death penalty. It remains unclear why Guzmán López surrendered to US authorities and brought Zambada with him. Guzmán López is now awaiting trial on a separate drug trafficking indictment in Chicago, where he has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other charges in federal court.

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CNN —Alleged Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, in a statement released by his attorney, reiterated the claim he was “ambushed” and “kidnapped” by a son of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán and hand-delivered to US authorities. In a room with a table topped with fruit, Zambada said, Joaquín Guzmán gestured for the cartel boss to follow him to a dark room nearby. He said he was driven to a landing strip and forced onto a private plane, where Joaquín Guzmán removed his hood and bound him to a seat using zip ties. One version has Joaquín Guzmán duping Zambada to orchestrate their arrest, US law enforcement officials have told CNN. Zambada is expected to be transferred to New York from Texas, one official told CNN.

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The same Chinese brokers who were laundering fentanyl proceeds were now heavily involved in marijuana trafficking across the U.S. as well. Over the past decade, Chinese organized crime groups in the U.S. quietly became the dominant money launderers for Mexican cartels. Since 2023, federal prosecutors have charged at least 31 people linked to Chinese groups accused of laundering cartel drug money. In the ensuing months, the team began to understand for the first time how the Chinese became the Mexican cartels’ go-to money launderers. The Chinese money brokers then arrange for the cartels to receive the equivalent amount in pesos or cryptocurrency in Mexico.

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☆ Mexican Drug Lord Appears in Court After His Kidnapping to the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Alan Feuer | Erin Coulehan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ismael Zambada García, one of the founders of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, appeared in court in Texas on Thursday, one week after he was kidnapped by his former business partner’s son and flown across the U.S. border into the hands of American agents. The appearance in Federal District Court in El Paso for an initial hearing was routine as a legal matter, but it also represented a consequential moment in the history of the drug war. It was the first time that Mr. Zambada García, a wily drug lord who had managed to evade capture for decades, was brought before a judge to be held accountable for what prosecutors have described as a nearly 50-year career of drug dealing, murder and corruption. Last week, that career was cut short when Mr. Zambada García, who is 76 and known as El Mayo, was lured from one of his mountain hide-outs to the Mexican city of Culiacán, which has long served as a stronghold for the Sinaloa cartel. Instead, he was ambushed, muscled onto a plane and flown across the border to a small regional airport near El Paso.

Persons: Ismael Zambada García, Zambada, Zambada García, El Organizations: Court Locations: Sinaloa, Mexico, Texas, U.S, El Paso, El Mayo, Mexican, Culiacán

CNN —Alleged Sinaloa cartel cofounder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada appeared Thursday in federal court in Texas for his latest hearing since his arrest a week ago in an intrigue-packed case centered on one of the world’s most powerful and deadly drug trafficking organizations. He was arrested the prior day in El Paso alongside Joaquín Guzmán López, the 38-year-old son of infamous cartel boss and founder Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The scene outside the courthouse in El Paso showed a heavy security presence, with federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling the perimeter. Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman’s assertion raised new questions about why Guzmán López flew to Texas if he had no cooperation agreement with American authorities. “Joaquín Guzmán López forcibly kidnapped my client,” attorney Frank Pérez said in a statement.

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CNN —Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of the former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is set to appear in federal court in Chicago Tuesday, just days after he was taken into American custody in a stunning arrest full of international betrayal and intrigue. The court appearance comes after Guzmán López, 38, and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the cartel’s alleged co-founder, were arrested Thursday by US authorities in El Paso, Texas. US law enforcement officials told CNN the arrest came after Guzmán López duped Zambada and orchestrated their arrest. “Joaquín Guzmán López forcibly kidnapped my client. Details on the operation were also highly restricted within the US government until Zambada and Guzmán López were taken into custody, the source said.

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☆ After Dramatic Surrender, Son of El Chapo Pleads Not Guilty to Drug Charges
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Alan Feuer | Robert Chiarito | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A son of El Chapo, the jailed Mexican drug lord, pleaded not guilty to federal drug conspiracy charges on Tuesday, five days after taking a dramatic private flight across the border and surrendering himself and his father’s former business partner to U.S. officials at an airport near El Paso. At a hearing in Federal District Court in Chicago, the son, Joaquín Guzmán López, faced an American judge for the first time since he was charged in that city last year with serving as a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel. Included in the same indictment were his three brothers, his father and Ismael Zambada García, his father’s onetime partner in crime. On Thursday, federal officials said, Mr. Guzmán López kidnapped Mr. Zambada García after luring him down from one of his mountain hide-outs to the Mexican city of Culiacán, which has long served as the urban stronghold for the Sinaloa cartel. After the two men's bodyguards clashed, the officials said, Mr. Guzmán López forcibly put his captive onto a private plane and flew him over the border and into the hands of U.S. federal agents.

Persons: El Chapo, Joaquín Guzmán, Ismael Zambada García, Guzmán López, Zambada, —, Zambada García, N.M Organizations: Federal, Court, U.S Locations: Mexican, El Paso, Chicago, Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico, Santa Teresa

☆ El Chapo’s Son Abducted Fellow Cartel Leader to the U.S., Officials Now Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Alan Feuer | Natalie Kitroeff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the hours after the arrest of Ismael Zambada García, the last remaining godfather of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, U.S. officials gave their early understanding of the mystery at the center of it all: How did a fugitive who had evaded capture for decades end up being delivered straight into their hands? Mr. Zambada García, the officials said, had been lured by a son of his former partner in crime, the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, onto a private plane that flew him without his permission over the border. But after a fuller vetting of the account of El Chapo’s son, Joaquín Guzmán López, with people who had knowledge of it, American officials have since come away with a different and more dramatic version of what took place in Mexico. Mr. Zambada García, one of his country’s most wanted men, had come down from a hide-out in the mountains last week and was ambushed in the Mexican city of Culiacán at what he thought would be a friendly meeting with Mr. Guzmán López, according to three federal law enforcement officials who spoke anonymously to discuss sensitive details of the case. Mr. Guzmán López then forcibly flew Mr. Zambada García in a Beechcraft King Air turboprop across the border, where he was apprehended by U.S. federal agents, the officials said.

Persons: Ismael Zambada García, Zambada García, El, El Chapo’s, Joaquín Guzmán, Guzmán, Guzmán López, Zambada Organizations: Beechcraft King Air Locations: Sinaloa, U.S, Mexico, Mexican, Culiacán

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the cartel’s alleged co-founder, and Joaquin Guzmán López, son of former boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, were arrested Thursday by US authorities in El Paso, Texas. “I’m looking forward to seeing Joaquin and working on the case with him,” Lichtman said in an email, adding he’d appear in court with Guzmán López. “Joaquín Guzmán López forcibly kidnapped my client. Details on the operation were also highly restricted within the US government until Zambada and Guzmán López were taken into custody, the source said. “Ismael Mario Zambada Garcia is the long-time leader of the Zambada Garcia faction of the Sinaloa Cartel,” according to the US State Department.

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☆ El Chapo son Guzman allegedly forcibly kidnapped Mexican drug lord
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Rafael Romo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The attorney for Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the alleged co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, says his client “neither surrendered nor negotiated any terms with the U.S. government,” but was instead kidnapped. Zambada’s attorney forcefully denied any suggestion previously raised by Mexican officials that his client may have surrendered of his own volition or willingly come to the United States as part of a deal. “Joaquín Guzmán López forcibly kidnapped my client. CNN has reached out to Mexican officials for comment regarding Zambada’s attorney’s kidnapping claim. The arrests of Zambada and Guzmán López mark a major development in decades-long efforts to capture and prosecute alleged cartel bosses.

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☆ The alleged Mexican drug cartel bosses arrested or extradited in recent years
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Karol Suárez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Federal agents arrested two Mexican alleged cartel bosses on Thursday, including Joaquin Guzmán López, the son of infamous cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in one of the biggest victories for US law enforcement in recent years. Zambada is a co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel. He faces charges in the US for conspiracy to import and distribute drugs, along with his brother Joaquín Guzmán López. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López (July 2024)Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was arrested on Thursday, July 25, 2024, in El Paso, Texas, alongside Joaquín Guzmán López, 38, son of El Chapo. Zambada is considered by US authorities to be the current leader of the Sinaloa cartel.

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Details are still emerging about what led last week to one of the most significant and stunning cartel busts in recent memory. Joaquín Guzmán López, one of the sons of convicted cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, duped Zambada and orchestrated their arrest, officials told CNN. At the time, Zambada told Proceso that fear about being captured weighed on him constantly. Now that Zambada and Guzmán López are in US custody, authorities are ready to make the case against them. But is it going to create a collateral effect or have an impact on drug trafficking?

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It sounded like a story ripped from a narco thriller: One of the biggest drug lords in Mexico was lured onto an airplane, flown across the border and presented to American federal agents by the son of his former partner in crime. As improbable as it may seem, that is exactly what appears to have happened on Thursday evening, when a Beechcraft King Air turboprop landed at a small municipal airport outside El Paso, and off stepped one of the most wanted men in Mexico: Ismael Zambada García, a founder of the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel. Mr. Zambada García, known as El Mayo, had for decades evaded capture by both Mexican and American officials, living a life of luxurious simplicity in the mountains of Sinaloa — despite the $15 million U.S. bounty on his head. But in the end, U.S. officials said, he was betrayed by an unlikely foe: a son of his closest criminal ally, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous drug lord known as El Chapo, who is now serving a life sentence in an American federal prison.

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☆ U.S. arrests Mexican drug lord 'El Mayo' and El Chapo's son in Texas
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and the son of his former partner, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, were arrested in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department said. Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and the son of his former partner, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, were arrested in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department said. Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of El Chapo, face multiple charges in the U.S. "for heading the Cartel's criminal operations, including its deadly fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking networks," the statement said. The arrest of Guzman Lopez was first reported by Reuters, ahead of the Justice Department statement. Two U.S. officials told Reuters that Zambada and Guzman Lopez were detained after landing in a private plane.

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☆ What We Know About the Sinaloa Cartel Arrests
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Andrés R. Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The United States arrested two of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers on Thursday and accused them of being responsible for the growing presence of fentanyl in the country, where it has devastated communities. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García, 76, and Joaquín Guzmán López, 35, were taken into custody on Thursday, according to the Justice Department. The two men lead the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the biggest criminal organizations in Mexico responsible for a wave of violence that has left a painful scar on Mexico in the past three decades. Here’s what to know about the arrests and the cartel:

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☆ US nabs a cartel leader after El Chapo's son tricks him onto a flight across the border: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Justice Department arrested two cartel leaders Thursday. One, El Chapo's son, worked with authorities to trick the second, leader El Mayo, onto a plane, according to CNN. At his trial, El Chapo argued El Mayo was the real boss behind the cartel. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Cofounder Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as "El Mayo," and Joaquin Guzman Lopez — the son of the cartel's other jailed cofounder, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman — were arrested in Texas and are facing multiple charges related to manufacturing and trafficking fentanyl, Garland said.

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☆ Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, co-founder of Sinaloa Mexican drug cartel, in US custody, source says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Fidel Gutierrez | Sahar Akbarzai | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder and alleged current leader of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, is in US custody, according to a diplomatic source with direct knowledge of the case. Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of cartel co-founder Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and another alleged leader of the cartel, is also in federal custody, said Attorney General Merrick Garland. The Sinaloa Cartel, named after the Mexican state where the gang was formed, is one of the most powerful drug-trafficking groups in the world, known for trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin into the United States. The latest indictment against Zambada, one of the most notorious drug traffickers in Mexico’s history, was in February. It charged him with conspiring to manufacture and distribute a substance containing fentanyl, according to the US Justice Department.

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American law enforcement has arrested two top leaders of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most dominant criminal groups in Mexico, the Justice Department said on Thursday. The two operatives, Ismael Zambada García and Joaquín Guzmán López, are among the most powerful drug traffickers in Mexico and command massive transnational cocaine and fentanyl businesses that move narcotics into the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Both men were in custody in El Paso, Texas. Mr. Zambada García, who is known as “El Mayo,” has been pursued by the U.S. government for years and has been charged in several federal indictments stretching back more than two decades. He has never been imprisoned, unlike his top ally, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, who was extradited to the United States, convicted in Brooklyn federal court in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison on drug conspiracy charges.

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☆ Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada: US operation to capture Sinaloa cartel leaders had the help of one of the captured men: a son of ‘El Chapo,’ official says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Emma Tucker | Polo Sandoval | Evan Perez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76, the alleged co-founder and leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. Another alleged cartel leader, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 38, was also arrested, he said. But Zambada didn’t know US investigators had exploited a rift in the Sinaloa cartel and Guzman Lopez was helping with Zambada’s capture, the official said. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, left, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, after they were arrested by US authorities in Texas, the US Justice Department said Thursday. “Ismael Mario Zambada Garcia is the long-time leader of the Zambada Garcia faction of the Sinaloa Cartel.

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☆ 19 bodies found in abandoned truck in the violence-heavy Mexican state of Chiapas
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Abel Alvarado | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —At least 19 bodies were discovered on Monday in an abandoned truck in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, according to the state’s attorney general. Five of the bodies had gunshot wounds and all were wearing dark clothing and tactical vests containing ammunition, authorities said. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador attributed the deaths to cartel violence and said some of the victims were migrants from Guatemala. Well, drug trafficking and the trafficking of migrants, meaning human trafficking, it’s a route,” Lopez Obrador said Tuesday during his daily press conference. Violence has been on the rise in Chiapas as cartels fight for control of lucrative routes for smuggling migrants and drugs.

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