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Alleged co-founder of Sinaloa cartel, son of El Chapo arrested in US
Two of the most powerful drug lords in the infamous Mexican drug-trafficking cartel Sinaloa have been arrested in New Mexico.
On Thursday, alleged Sinaloa co-founder Ismael Zambada Garcia, aka "El Mayo," and Joaquin Guzman Lopez — the son of the other Sinaloa co-founder, Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka "El Chapo" — were arrested at the Doña Ana County International Jetport in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, about 20 miles northwest of El Paso, Texas.
Journalist Luis Chaparro ... indicated in a recent Substack article that both alleged drug lords had basically turned themselves in.
Back in February, Zambada — who founded Sinaloa with El Chapo in the 1980s — was indicted for allegedly conspiring to make and distribute fentanyl. Despite his deep association with one of the most ruthless drug cartels in the world, Zambada "has never spent a day in jail," the State Department said.
That all changed this week when Zambada, 76, boarded a plane with Joaquin Guzman, 38, believing that the two were headed to inspect property somewhere in Mexico. However, Guzman had reportedly turned on Zambada recently, believing that Zambada was somehow involved in the capture of Guzman's father, El Chapo, who is currently serving life plus 30 years in a supermax prison in Colorado.
According to the New York Times, Guzman "lured" Zambada onto the aircraft "under false pretenses." The plane then headed for the U.S., where federal agents were waiting.
Both Zambada and Guzman surrendered to authorities at the New Mexico airport without incident and were taken away separately. "It seemed like a pretty calm, arranged thing," one unnamed airport employee told CNN. That observation matches reporting from journalist Luis Chaparro, who indicated in a recent Substack article that both alleged drug lords had basically turned themselves in.
Authorities transported Guzman to Chicago but kept Zambada in the area. He appeared at the El Paso Magistrate Courtroom on Friday.
Both face multiple charges in connection with the manufacture of fentanyl, drug trafficking, and "leading the Cartel’s criminal operations," a DOJ press release said.
"Fentanyl is the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced, and the Justice Department will not rest until every single cartel leader, member, and associate responsible for poisoning our communities is held accountable," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram said the arrests of El Mayo and the son of El Chapo strike "at the heart of the cartel that is responsible for the majority of drugs, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, killing Americans from coast to coast."
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Female alleged gangster wanted in connection with gruesome human sacrifices in Mexico arrested in Texas
A woman wanted in connection with several brutal, gang-related murders in Mexico was recently arrested inside the United States.
On February 15, the combined efforts of the FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force, the El Paso Police Gang Unit, County Sheriff's Narcotics Division, and Border Patrol resulted in victory when agents arrested Mexican fugitive Michelle Angelica Pineda, sometimes referred to as La Chely, in a motel in eastern El Paso, Texas. American and Mexican law enforcement officials believe that Pineda, a Mexican national, crossed the U.S. border illegally as part of a drug-trafficking ring perpetrated by the violent street gang Artistas Asesinos, or Artist Assassins.
Inside the motel room where Pineda was arrested, investigators reportedly found a cache of weapons — guns, knives, and machetes — as well as drugs like Xanax, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. Pineda was immediately transported across the border and placed in the care of Chihuahua state officials. She now sits in an unidentified Mexican jail.
Though her alleged leadership role among the Artistas Asesinos may sound bad enough, it's hardly the worst accusation against her. She and her fellow gang members also supposedly murdered five people, dismembered their bodies, and then offered some of their body parts to a Mexican folk saint known as Santa Muerte, or Holy Death.
"Pineda was known for her extreme brutality such as dismembering bodies, removing hearts, and placing the hearts in front of 'Santa Muerte' altars and statutes," the FBI said in a statement.
"Today’s deportation highlights the swift action of our agents and our significant partnerships by successfully taking a violent assassin off our streets and putting her back into the hands of Mexican law enforcement to be tried for her crimes," a statement from FBI El Paso Special Agent John Morales read in part.
Pineda is also suspected of participating in 20 other dismemberment murders in Juarez, which is just across the border from El Paso. One Mexican newspaper, El Heraldo de Juárez, reported that her alleged history of violence dates all the way back to when she was just 13 years old, describing her as a "young woman who grew up surrounded by violence."
Many Catholic leaders in the U.S. and Mexico have denounced Santa Muerte, a skeletal figure often associated with drug cartels, as, at best, "spiritually dangerous," and, at worst, demonic. Prayers to Santa Muerte "should be completely avoided," Bishop Michael Sis of the Diocese of San Angelo, Texas, said in 2017. "It is a perversion of devotion to the saints."
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Texas woman charged with 'harboring' 17 illegal immigrants, including 2 minors, until they 'worked off' thousands of dollars of 'debt'
A Texas woman has been charged after 17 illegal immigrants, including two children, were allegedly found hiding in her home.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas, Manuela Magdalena Jimon Castro, 30, has been charged with "alien harboring." Authorities believe that Castro and a member of her family had joined forces with a human smuggling ring to extort money from illegal immigrants.
The DOJ claimed that it first learned of the operation when a woman in California alerted local authorities that her sister had been held hostage in Texas. The woman claimed that her sister was traveling from Guatemala and had hoped to be granted asylum in the United States. However, just before she crossed the border from Mexico, she was allegedly kidnapped by members of a Mexican drug cartel. She was then taken into the U.S. and transported back and forth between Texas and New Mexico until she ultimately wound up at Castro's home. The unidentified woman supposedly sent her sister a pin of her location in Friona, Texas, before she escaped.
When police conducted a search of Castro's home, they say they discovered 17 illegal immigrants hiding throughout the house. Some were "concealing themselves in the attic, in cupboards, or inside totes covered in blankets," according to a statement from the DOJ.
Police say they also saw an array of mattresses and blankets strewn about the floor, but that otherwise, there was very little furniture there.
When questioned, the people found at the home admitted that they had entered the U.S. illegally. However, they also claimed that they had been held at Castro's home and told that they either paid Castro between $10,000 and $12,000 for "entrance fees" or "worked off" their "debt."
"They indicated that the smugglers had confiscated their cell phones, and only allowed intermittent contact with family members in order to obtain money to pay their 'entrance fees.' Several stated that they believed they had to stay at the residence in Friona until their entrance fee had been paid in full," the DOJ statement adds.
Castro supposedly threatened to deprive them of food and water until the payments were made.
Castro appeared before Magistrate Judge Lee Ann Reno on Thursday. She faces a maximum of five years in federal prison if convicted.
H/T: The Hill
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