The co-founder of the world’s largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization was arrested on U.S. soil this week after being duped by a leader of rival faction inside the cartel.
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76, a top leader and the co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, was lured onto a plane on Thursday by 38-year-old Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of Mexican drug cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, who is locked up in the U.S. for the rest of his life after being convicted on numerous federal charges.
Joaquín Guzmán López allegedly got Zambada to board the plane by telling him that they were going to look at real estate in a different part of Mexico.
However, the Beechcraft King Air plane that they boarded turned north and landed just across the border in New Mexico at a small airport right next to El Paso where both men were quickly arrested by federal…
