Meanwhile, a son of “El Mayo,” Ismael Zambada Imperial, pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court in San Diego in 2021 to being a leader in the Sinaloa cartel.

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the co-founder of the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel, appeared in an El Paso federal court in a wheelchair, looking far from the drug kingpin who is charged with being the ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada said he was ambushed and kidnapped when he thought he was going to meet the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa, then ...