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(NewsNation) — Mexican officials were not progressive erstwhile 2 cause kingpins from the country, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, were arrested Thursday successful Texas.
Zambada, 76, person of the Sinaloa cartel, and 38-year-old Joaquín Guzmán López, the lad of El Chapo, surrendered to United States authorities without incident. The Mexican authorities didn't larn the arrests happened until aft the fact, erstwhile they got a telephone telephone from the U.S. Embassy, Rosa Icela Rodriguez, the country's Secretary of Security, said astatine a quality conference.
U.S. officials had antecedently offered a reward of up to $15 cardinal for accusation starring to Zambada's capture. One of the astir notorious cause traffickers successful the world, Zambada, on with López, oversaw the taking of “tens of thousands of pounds of drugs into the United States, on with related violence,” FBI Director Christopher Wray, said, adding that the 2 volition present “face justness successful the United States.”
New video from Reuters shows Customs and Border Patrol agents surrounding a backstage pitchy believed to beryllium holding Zambada and López aft it landed astatine Santa Teresa International Jetport.
Because of this, Customs and Border Patrol warned agents determination could present beryllium escalated unit and blowback from Zambada's supporters.
Another fearfulness authorities person is the imaginable for a bloody powerfulness conflict to capable the void present astatine the apical of the Sinaloa cartel.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
