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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jul 26, 2024, 01:45 PM Jul 2024

Top Sinaloa cartel leaders, including son of El Chapo, taken into US custody: DOJ

Two top leaders of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel have been taken into custody by United States authorities to face charges for their role in leading the group's vast drug trafficking enterprise, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of "El Chapo" Guzman, were placed under arrest in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, according to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

"Both men are facing multiple charges in the United States for leading the Cartel's criminal operations, including its deadly fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking networks," Garland said in a statement. "El Mayo and Guzman Lopez join a growing list of Sinaloa Cartel leaders and associates who the Justice Department is holding accountable in the United States."

Zambada made his initial appearance Friday morning in El Paso federal court before Judge Anne Berton, according to court records. He was ordered detained pending his arraignment hearing, scheduled for July 31.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-sinaloa-cartel-leaders-including-013414152.html

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Top Sinaloa cartel leaders, including son of El Chapo, taken into US custody: DOJ (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 OP
for the completely uninformed. why are these guys stopdiggin Jul 2024 #1
Read the Yahoo piece. Sneederbunk Jul 2024 #2
answer: tricked into a flight to US territory by way of betrayal stopdiggin Jul 2024 #3

stopdiggin

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3. answer: tricked into a flight to US territory by way of betrayal
Fri Jul 26, 2024, 09:50 PM
Jul 2024

from within the cartel itself.

But thanks anyway.

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