David Brooks and Jim Cason
Correspondents
The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, August 16, 2024, p. 15
Chicago. Federal prosecutors requested that Ismael The May Zambada García be transferred to New York to face his judicial process before the same courts where Joaquín was tried El Chapo Guzman and Genaro Garcia Luna.
A federal judge in the Western District of Texas has yet to approve prosecutors’ request in Zambada’s case. If she does, the case will be prosecuted in the Eastern District of New York court, based in Brooklyn.
Zambada faces indictments in five U.S. courts, including one in New York that was updated with new charges in February of this year, adding manufacturing and distribution in the U.S. of fentanyl-containing products, along with previous charges including murder conspiracy, money laundering, running a criminal enterprise, trafficking cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, among others committed between 2014 and January 2024.
When the updated indictment against Zambada was announced, District Attorney Breon Peace stressed that it demonstrates a “firm commitment to bringing him to justice, just as we did with his former co-conspirator.” El Chapo”. DEA Director Anne Milgram stated in February that fenanyl It is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45, and we must continue to hold Zambada Garcia and other cartel leaders, their members and associates accountable for the people they have killed.
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The prosecutors’ request is expected to be approved, as one of Zambada’s attorneys, Frank Perez of Dallas, Texas, had already requested permission from the courts in New York to practice his duties there.
