DEEP DIVE — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a co-founder and chief of Mexico’s infamous Sinaloa Cartel, has entered a not responsible plea to 17 drug trafficking expenses, following within the footsteps of Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of the cartel’s founder, and setting the stage for a high-profile authorized battle this fall hat may reveal the depths of cartel operations. Prosecutors and U.S. officers additionally hope that battle at the very least places a dent within the lethal, multi-billion-dollar visitors in fentanyl, a drug that has been blamed for the deaths of a couple of million Individuals.
Lopez, 38, was arrested in late July, a regulation enforcement coup that drew world consideration on condition that his father is Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Sinaloa co-founder who till his newest seize in 2016 (he had escaped at the very least twice earlier than) was thought-about one of many world’s most harmful criminals.
