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Sinaloa cartel leader ‘El Mayo’ gets life sentence, dubbed ‘world’s single biggest drug trafficker’

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Sinaloa drug cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia was sentenced to life in prison on drug trafficking charges in New York, authorities said.

Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of the Sinaloa drug cartel co-founder Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, were arrested July 25, 2024, by U.S. Marshals at a Dona Ana County private airport in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, a small town bordering El Paso, Texas.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2026/07/20/sinaloa-cartel-el-mayo-sentenced-life-in-prison/90987133007/

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