This Is How ‘El Mayo’ Ended Up In A Jet At A U.S. Suburban Town
Many have said that Zambada knew that violence was not good for business, so he stayed away from it. But his grand son has a different scope.
EL PASO, Texas.— The guys in the fancy shirts and expensive shoes sat across all of them: at the other side of the room -of a yet unknown place in Sonora-, was mythical Sinaloa Cartel founder Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, two of the sons of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán: Joaquín Guzmán López and Alfredo Guzmán, and several other men under the wing of the remaining factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. The offer was simple: want to keep enjoying whats left of your money and probably get a chance to live free in the U.S.? Or, stay here, where things are about to get uglier, and probably get killed or arrested…
Only two of them agreed. The rest went back into the shadows of Sinaloa to never say a word about that meeting. The future of Alfredo, Iván and ‘Mayo Flaco’, the sons of the two Sinaloa Cartel founders is to be killed or jailed.
The white King Air with a black and red tail flew across the dry, empty desert up to a small suburban town in New Mexico: Santa Teresa -in Dona Ana County, right next to El Paso, Texas. It is a few minutes after 2 pm. Before one DEA and one FBI agents opened the stairwell of the plane, El Mayo had one last request: he didn’t want to go looking weak. He asked everyone there not to say he turned himself in, but rather that he was either captured, kidnapped or tricked. The agents agreed and helped him and Joaquín down.
Before they landed, one of the agents on board told Zambada he was going to be put either in New York or D.C., and Joaquín was going to Chicago. The agent then signed a document under “Rule 5”, which is a legal procedure to move a criminal under custody from one state to another. The agents, Zambada and Joaquín knew beforehand they were hiding to the U.S., and exactly where will they face justice. No tricks.
Zambada, wearing a plaid shirt, descended first. Then Joaquín. No one said a word. They were taken into different rooms to get processed while the airplane stayed on the tarmac. Agents searched the plane throughly. Zambada’s biometrics confirmed his identity, so did Joaquin’s. At around 8pm on the same day they were both being flown out to their new destines where they will face justice.
The Deal
“My grandfather was very sick, as you knew. And his life was coming to an end. All he ever wanted was to have the opportunity to see V (Vicentillo Zambada, ‘El Mayo’s’ eldest) and MG (Mayo Gordo, another Zambada’s son) at least once again,” one of Zambada’s grandsons tells me on a private message.