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CRIMEJul 20 · 04:03 UTCWDIV CLICKONDETROITMichael R. Sisak, Associated Press

Former Mexican drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada set to be sentenced to life in prison

Ismael Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, is set to receive a life sentence in a U.S. court after pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges. He and Joaquín Guzmán expanded the cartel into the world’s largest drug trafficking organization, flooding the U.S. with cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine.

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