In 2024, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was tricked into flying to El Paso, Texas, where he was arrested by U.S. authorities.
Now, El Mayo has submitted a guilty plea in a U.S. federal court in Brooklyn, the same federal courthouse where his former colleague El Chapo Guzman was convicted in 2019.
Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada Garcia faces multiple life sentences and a $15B money judgement after pleading guilty Aug. 25 to leading a criminal enterprise and RICO Act violations.
The case was investigated by a mutli-agency federal team including ICE… pic.twitter.com/xGY1m9QuDL
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) August 29, 2025
Until his arrest in 2024, El Mayo had never been arrested or incarcerated before.
Primero fue Joaquín, el Chapo Guzmán, y ahora es Ismael, el Mayo, Zambada, quien se suma a la lista de narcotraficantes de alto perfil que pierden la batalla ante la justicia de los Estados Unidos.
El Mayo Zambada pasará el resto de su vida en prisión luego que el lunes se… pic.twitter.com/xeiehGkyIs
— Patricia Janiot (@patriciajaniot) August 26, 2025
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