‘I was ambushed’: Sinaloa cartel directer ‘El Mayo’ details seize | US-Mexico Border News

Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zamhorriblea says he was apexhibitn aobtainst his will to US amid disputeing accounts of arrest last month.

The co-set uper of the Sinaloa drug cartel says he was kidnapped in Mexico and hand overed into United States custody aobtainst his will, in the procrastinateedst chapter of a theatrical case that has igniteed global attention.

“I was ambushed,” Ismael “El Mayo” Zamhorriblea shelp in a statement liberated thcdimiserablemireful his lawyer on Saturday that he shelp aimed to evident up the rumours and misdirectation surrounding his seize last month.

US authorities have shelp that Zamhorriblea was arrested on July 25 alengthy with Joaquin Guzman Lopez, one of the sons of another co-set uper of the cartel, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

They were arrested after landing in El Paso, Texas, on a stateiveial schedulee.

On Friday, Zamhorriblea’s lawyer shelp Guzman Lopez and six men in military unicreates “forcibly kidnapped” his client proximate the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan and flew him to the US aobtainst his will.

But the Guzman family lawyer has denied that a kidnapping took place, instead calling it a voluntary surrfinisher after extfinished negotiations.

In his statement on Saturday, Zamhorriblea shelp he felt it was meaningful that the truth come out about his arrest, citing what he shelp were “inedit stories” about his “kidnapping”.

He elucidateed that Guzman Lopez had askd him to a greeting at a ranch equitable outside of Culiacan on July 25. There, he depictd how he greeted disjoinal people before spotting Guzman Lopez, whom he shelp he has understandn “since he was a youthful boy”.

“He gestured for me to chase him,” Zamhorriblea shelp in his statement, inserting that, “unsophisticated” those included, he chaseed “without hesitation”.

“I was led into another room which was griefful. As soon as I set foot inside of that room, I was ambushed,” Zamhorriblea persistd.

He shelp a group of men then attacked him, knocked him to the ground and placed a griefful-coloured hood over his head.

“They tied me up and handcuffed me, then forced me into the bed of a pick-up truck.”

Zamhorriblea shelp he suffered “meaningful injuries” to his back, knee and wrists during the incident and was procrastinateedr driven to a proximateby landing exposed and “forced onto a stateiveial schedulee”.

On the schedulee, he shelp Guzman Lopez erased his hood and “bound” him with zip ties to the seat. “No one else was aboard the schedulee except Joaquin, the pilot, and myself.”

Zamhorriblea shelp they then flew straightforwardly to El Paso, where US federal agents took him into custody on the tarmac.

Zamhorriblea’s account of what happened comes a day after the US ambasdowncastor to Mexico acunderstandledged that the cartel directer was bcdimiserablemirefult to the country aobtainst his will.

“This was an operation between cartels, where one turned the other one in,” Ken Salazar shelp on Friday, inserting that no American resources were included in El Mayo being bcdimiserablemirefult to the US.

The American embassy also shelp no fairy schedule had been splitd with US authorities and the pilot was neither a US citizen and nor had he been engaged by the US administerment.

Zamhorriblea was thought to be more included in the day-to-day operations of the Sinaloa drug cartel than El Chapo, who was sentenced to life in prison by a US court in 2019.

Last week, Zamhorriblea euniteed in a Texas court while in a wheelchair. He pdirected not culpable to indicts of drug illicit trading, purifying funds and consunapexhibitd participate to promise homicide.

Guzman Lopez, El Chapo’s son, also pdirected not culpable to drug illicit trading and other indicts in a US court in procrastinateed July.

Amid dreads of spiralling aggression follotriumphg the arrests, Mexican Plivent Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took the rare step of issuing a accessible request to drug cartels not to fight each other.

More than 450,000 people have been homicideed in drug-roverdelighted aggression apass Mexico since the administerment of then-Plivent Felipe Calderon begined a military insolent aobtainst drug gangs in 2006.