One of El Chapo’s sons duped Ismael « El Mayo » Zambada into boarding a plane on Thursday, telling him they were going to look at property in Mexico, a person familiar with the investigation confirmed to CBS News.
A leader and co-founder of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel thanks to a stunning betrayal by one of the sons of imprisoned Mexican kingpin Joaquín « El Chapo » Guzmán Loera, a source told CBS News.
The arrest of Ismael « El Mayo » Zambada ended more than four decades of his leadership of the deadly criminal organization he founded with Guzmán Loera, who is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado after being of charges including drug trafficking, money laundering and weapons-related offenses.
One of El Chapo’s sons, Joaquín Guzmán López, 38, allegedly duped Zambada into boarding a plane on Thursday, telling him they were going to look at property in Mexico, a person familiar with the investigation confirmed to CBS News. Instead, the plane landed near El Paso, Texas, where Zambada, 76, .
Both men were taken into custody on the tarmac.
