2 Sinaloa Cartel Kingpins are arrested in El Paso Texas.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

4.4 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

2 Sinaloa Cartel Kingpins are arrested in El Paso Texas and detained The arrest in the United States of two top leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel came after what initial accounts suggest was a dramatic betrayal that saw one of the men, a son of the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, lure the other under false pretenses onto a plane that delivered them both into the hands of American law enforcement. One of the operatives taken into custody, Ismael Zambada García, was arguably the most powerful criminal in Mexico, a septuagenarian kingpin who helped to found the Sinaloa cartel with El Chapo decades ago and remained at large even after his partner was extradited to the United States and convicted at a trial in New York City. The other was one of El Chapo’s own sons, Joaquín Guzmán López, who with his brothers had inherited a large swath of their father’s illicit business moving massive amounts of cocaine and fentanyl into the United States, Europe and elsewhere. The two men were arrested at a small local airport outside of El Paso, Texas, on Thursday afternoon after their Beechcraft King Air plane landed there on a flight from Mexico, U.S. officials said. Mr. Guzmán López had persuaded Mr. Zambada García to join him on the flight by saying they were going to look at real estate, officials said, but the plane instead headed north across the border. (NY Times)

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome to police off the cuff.
0:13.4	Real Crime Stories.
0:14.2	I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:21.4	You know, folks, we hear all the time, especially from politicians, especially in
0:26.0	conversations in Congress, about the huge fentanyl problem coming in from Mexico and the
0:33.0	cocaine problem, the drug problem, the cartel problem, the gang problem, all of those things. But yesterday,
0:40.3	something was done about it. However, it smells of political, of a political stunt in a way,
0:50.3	because the person or persons who were arrested are these two individuals to see on
0:55.7	the screen. And they're called Cinaloa Cartel Kingpins and they were arrested in El Paso, Texas.
1:05.0	And the person on the left is Ishmael El Mayo Zimbada.
1:09.5	And he founded the Cinellooa cartel with El Chapo,
1:14.2	who is the gentleman on the rights father,
1:18.0	Joaquin Guzman Lopez.
1:20.5	El Chapo is his father.
1:22.7	So it would seem, you know, obviously to arrest them and be, without having to worry about extradition,
1:31.5	they arrested them right in Texas.
1:34.6	They, uh, and there was, apparently, from what I understand, there was a betrayal from
1:41.0	Joaquin-Gusman Lopez against Ishmael El Mio Zimbada.
1:46.1	He lured him onto the plane, a private plane, a different destination in the United States
1:53.2	under the guise of looking at real estate.
1:57.9	And instead, once they got into El Paso, federal agents swarmed and placed them both under arrest.
2:05.2	And according to, I'll read you some of the information we have from, well, there you look on the screen is Ishmael Zimbada Garcia.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.