Bondi won't seek death penalty for cartel boss 'El Mayo'

(NewsNation) — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi will not question the decease punishment for 2 accused Mexican cause traffickers, though some men person suspected heavy connections to convulsive transgression cartels, the U.S. Justice Department announced connected Tuesday.

In documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York connected Tuesday, officials alerted the tribunal that the Justice Department would not question the decease punishment for Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Rafael Caro Quintero per Bondi's authorization.

Zambada is accused of co-founding the Sinaloa Cartel alongside convicted cause kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Zambada was arrested past year alongside Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a lad of his erstwhile partner, adjacent El Paso, Texas.

Caro Quintero was extradited to the U.S. successful February with a radical of 28 different suspected cartel members arsenic portion of the biggest handover by Mexico of cause trafficking suspects successful 10 years, Reuters reported connected Tuesday. Caro Quintero was arraigned successful New York earlier this twelvemonth aft being released from Mexican custody.

Caro Quintero, the erstwhile person of the Guadalajara cartel, was down the sidesplitting of a U.S. DEA cause successful 1985 and had been connected the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

Both Caro Quintero and Zambada person pleaded not blameworthy to U.S. cause trafficking charges.