A man described as the nephew of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán has been arrested, Mexico's top security official said Tuesday.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada didn't know US investigators had exploited a rift in the Sinaloa cartel or that Guzman Lopez was helping with his capture, the official said.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was taken into U.S. custody alongside the son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
A new superseding indictment filed this week against one of the powerhouse players in the illicit drug trade in Chicago brings the story of a father and son's differing paths to the forefront.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33, was charged in April with two dozen others as part of a crackdown targeting a global drug trafficking network run through Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
The wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is set to be released from her California halfway house on Wednesday, according to prison records.
