Sinaloa Cartel’s co-founder has to face life sentence after a guilty petition

Ismail “L. Mayo” on Monday convicted a criminal venture and racketoring, co-founder of Zamba-Santaloa Cartel.

US Attorney General Palm Bandi announced a petition in Brooklyn, saying that Zamba confessed to a foreign terrorist organization for a lifetime crime with Sinaloa Cartel.

Bondi said, “Thanks to the tireless work of our prosecutors and our federal agents, L. Mayo will spend the rest of his life behind bars. He will die in an American federal prison where he is,” Bondi said. “His guilty petition brings us a step closer to the elimination of drug cartels and our goal of international criminal organizations around the world that are flooding our country with drugs and human trams and killers.”

In the last three decades, Zambada and his comrades earned billions of dollars by importing poisonous drugs such as Fentaenile, Bandy said. Zamba founded Sinaloa Cartel with Joquin “L Chapoo” Gujman.

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While Cartel initially manufactured his businesses through cocaine, it turned into heroin and fenteenile under Zamba.

Bondi said, “He bought Fentaneel forever chemical from China. He made medicines in Mexico and flooded our communities, killing our children.” “El Mayo also ensured that Sinaloa Cartel rely on excessive violence and conducted his drug smuggling business.”

For example, he explained that Cartel used military-grade weapons and directed Hitman to kill his opponents. He said that Cartel also committed “fierce” murders, kidnappings and terrible crimes to maintain discipline within the organization.

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Zamba is also accused of bribing government officials to control corrupt officials and officials, who in turn protected their workers and drug shipments as they traveled from Mexico to America.

“El Mayo’s crimes have been so much that in the last two decades, they have not been reduced from here in the eastern district of New York in less than 16 federal courts across our country. “But under the leadership of President Trump, he has finally been brought to justice.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said that Zamba was first accused by the prosecution filed in the eastern district of New York, the western district of Texas, Columbia district, the northern district of Illinois, the southern district of California and the district of California.

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As part of the petition agreement, Zamba agreed to transfer the western district of the western district in the eastern district of Eastern district for petition and punishment. With that agreement, he is also being held accountable in the eastern district of New York for crimes between the two prosecutions. On January 13, 2026, all other prosecutions will be rejected if Zamba is sentenced.

He faces a compulsory minimum tenure of life in prison to lead a constant criminal venture and maximum punishment of life in jail.

He also agreed for $ 15 billion in sentence.

According to federal officials, the US law sought over two decades for more than two decades, Zamba has been in American custody since July 25, when he landed in a private aircraft in the company of Joquin Guzman Lopez, another fugitive cartel leader outside L Paso.

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Zambada later stated in a letter that he was forcibly kidnapped in Mexico and brought to America by Guzman Lopez, one of El Chapo’s sons.