The United States Attorney’s Office will analyze the possibility of requesting the death penalty against the founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, El Mayo Zambada, if he is found guilty.
This was confirmed this Friday, October 18, by his prosecutors in front of Judge Brian Cogan, who has accepted that the issue be discussed with a view to an eventual trial.
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In a brief hearing in the court of Brooklyn, New York, Judge Bryan Cogan, who this Wednesday handed down a sentence of more than 38 years to the former Secretary of Public Security, during the six-year term of the former Mexican president, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, for his links to the crime, pointed out the possibility that “El Mayo”, who wore the khaki prisoner’s uniform, could face the death penalty, if found guilty after his trial on various charges related to drug trafficking.
The drug trafficker is accused of 17 crimes, including trafficking in fentanyl – a powerful narcotic 50 times more potent than cocaine –, methamphetamines, marijuana, heroin and charges for large-scale drug trafficking. Also conspiracy to commit murder and direction of a criminal organization.
However, on September 14, he pleaded not guilty to the charges of which the American justice system accuses him.
New audience
Meanwhile, the judge summoned a new hearing for January 15, 2025. In these three months for said hearing to be held, the United States Department of Justice will have to present evidence and arguments to determine whether the sentence that was dictated to him, the death penalty could be applied.
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It should be noted that one day before the trial in the US against “El Mayo” Zambada, Joaquin Guzman “El Güero Moreno” left custody and his brother returned, Ovid “The Mouse”.
The above, according to the records of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from the US, which indicates that “El Güero”, with registration number 08260506, left its custody yesterday (October 16); This change in his prison status does not mean his freedom.
Meanwhile, his brother “El Ratón” (registration number 72884748) returned to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, where he left days before his brother and “El Mayo” appeared in North American territory on July 25.
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