By Andrea Espinoza
Dec 20, 2024, 18:03 PM EST
The son of the infamous Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, Vicente Zambada Niebla, also known as “El Vicentillo” and who was once considered the heir to the criminal empire, known as “The Sinaloa Cartel,” He ended up collaborating with American justice and is now a free man.
Howeverhe glimpses something that could darken his life completely and this is to testify against his own father.if your case goes to trial.
The son of “El Mayo” has been free for a few months under a new identity and in the company of his family, This after entering the Department of Justice’s protected witness program in 2019, this reduced his sentence to only 15 years in prison and avoided life imprisonment, this was noted by “El Semanario Mexicano Proceso.”
As a protected witness, “El Vicentillo” is obliged to testify against his father or any other drug trafficker or criminal, If he refused, he would be confined for life in prison and his immediate family, wife and children would lose all types of protection.
On the other hand, if he is found guilty of the crimes for which he is accused, “El Mayo” Zambada could even be subjected to the death penalty for the thousands of murders of Americans of which he is accused and who died from overdoses with drugs manufactured with fentanyl that he exported to the United States.
“El Vicentillo” was the star witness for the Department of Justice in the trial of Chapo Guzmánfor drug trafficking before Judge Cogan, the same judge who will handle this case who sentenced him to life imprisonment.
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