Sinaloa Cartel leader ‘El Mayo’ sentenced to life in U.S. prison
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Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who co-led the Sinaloa Cartel for nearly four decades, has been sentenced to life in prison and ordered to forfeit $15 billion. Zambada, 76, was sentenced Monday in the Eastern District of New York after pleading guilty to leading a continuing criminal ent…
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Amir said that over the course of three decades, Zambada employed torture and murder, including the killing of his own nephew, to flood the U.S. with cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and other drugs.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is set to be sentenced in a U.S. court Monday to life in prison, a punishment guaranteed by his guilty plea last year to drug trafficking charges. Zambada’s sentencing in Brooklyn federal court is the culmination of the U.S.
Joseph Nocella Jr., US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, speaks to the press outside the federal courthouse in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on July 20, 2026, following the sentencing of Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
Ismael Zambada Garcia, known as "El Mayo," will be sentenced Monday in Brooklyn federal court after he spent much of his life as one of the most, if not the most, prolific and powerful drug traffickers in the world.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada ordered torture and plotted murders as he Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán grew the Sinaloa cartel into the world's largest drug trafficking organization, prosecutors said.
Case against Ismael Zambada García, who helped co-found and lead the violent Sinaloa cartel, unfolded in New York The Mexican drug kingpin, Ismael Zambada García, known as “El Mayo”, was sentenced in a US federal court on Monday to life in prison, after a plea deal last year in which he admitted to…
Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court to life in prison. At his sentencing on Monday, he called for an end to the brand of brutal violence he used for decades to grow…
Elderly Mexican drug lord “El Mayo” — who took over “El Chapo’s” notorious Sinaloa cartel — apologized for his reign of brutal violence Monday before being handed a life sentence.
Ismael Zambada García, better known as El Mayo, used an army of hit men and widespread political corruption to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States.
Sinaloa cartel cofounder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced on Monday to a mandatory life sentence in federal prison after admitting he spent more than five decades helping build one of the world’s largest drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. U.S. District Judge Brian M.
By Aaron Katersky Ismael Zambada Garcia, known as "El Mayo," was sentenced Monday to life in prison on drug trafficking charges that accused him of being one of the most prolific and powerful narcotraffickers in the world, according to federal prosecutors in New York City.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the longtime co-founder and former leader of Mexico's notorious Sinaloa cartel, has been sentenced to life in federal prison without the possibility of parole, bringing one of the most consequential U.S. prosecutions against a cartel boss to a close.
Two years after notorious Sinaloa cartel members Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada says he was "abducted" from Mexico on a private plane bound for the U.S. with "El Chapo's" son, the elderly narco was hit with a life sentence in Brooklyn Monday
On Monday morning, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada went before U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan, who handed down the life sentence. The sentence was anticipated ahead of time following his August 2025 guilty plea, where the Mexican drug lord admitted to multiple drug trafficking conspiracy charges linked to…
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a co-founder and longtime leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was sentenced to life in U.S. prison by a federal judge in Brooklyn.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel and one of the world's most notorious drug traffickers, was sentenced to life in a US prison.
Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as "El Mayo," was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay $15 billion for his role as a co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel.
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