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Friday, September 13, 2024

"El Mayo" Pleads Not Guilty in New York Federal Court

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat



Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia, 76, a citizen of Mexico, was arraigned this morning in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on 17 counts related to drug trafficking, firearms offenses, and money laundering. This fifth superseding indictment relates to El Mayo’s decades-long leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world and conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl. El Mayo was previously charged with running a continuing criminal enterprise, as well as murder conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana manufacture and distribution conspiracy, as well as other drug-related crimes.

El Mayo was ordered detained pending trial and was transferred yesterday to the Eastern District of New York from the Western District of Texas, following his arrest in New Mexico on July 25.

 
“El Mayo, the co-founder and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, has been charged with overseeing a multi-billion-dollar conspiracy to flood American communities with narcotics, including deadly fentanyl,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “We allege that El Mayo built, and for decades led, the Sinaloa Cartel’s network of manufacturers, assassins, traffickers, and money launderers responsible for kidnapping and murdering people in both the United States and Mexico, and importing lethal quantities of fentanyl, heroin, meth, and cocaine into the United States. Now, El Mayo joins the many other Sinaloa Cartel leaders who have faced charges in an American courtroom for the immeasurable harm they have inflicted on families and communities across our country.”

“For years, Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada Garcia and the Sinaloa Cartel he led manufactured illicit fentanyl and peddled it across our country, profiting off of the pain of countless American communities,” said Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas. “Thanks to the dedicated work of brave Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Agents and their federal partners, the United States is disrupting and dismantling drug trafficking operations across the world, ensuring Cartel kingpins like Mr. Zambada Garcia are brought to justice, and keeping Americans safe from the scourge of fentanyl.”

“For decades, the Sinaloa Cartel has profited from poisoning and killing Americans, and fueling violence on both sides of our southern border,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. “Today’s arraignment of Zambada Garcia is the latest step in a whole-of-government effort to strike back against one of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations and protect our communities from the fentanyl epidemic.”

“Today’s arraignment is another forceful reminder of the FBI’s commitment to pursuing justice for the American lives lost to the violence and trafficking of deadly drugs, like fentanyl, associated with Zambada Garcia and those he directed as a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “The FBI will not stop in our pursuit of those who engage and facilitate the cartel’s sophisticated operations that cause immense harm to Americans and poison communities across our country.”

“Defeating the Sinaloa Cartel is DEA’s top operational priority and today, with the capture and additional charges filed against Ismael Zambada Garcia we are that much closer,” said Administrator Anne Milgram of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “Better known as ‘El Mayo’, Zambada Garcia is the co-founder and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most ruthless and dangerous cartels in Mexico and responsible for the unprecedented drug crisis facing the United States. With Zambada Garcia no longer in power we have struck at the heart of the Sinaloa Cartel’s operations. He may have eluded capture for three decades, but today he is seeing what it means to face justice in America. Let this be a reminder to his associates and others, American lives depend on DEA remaining laser focused on destroying the cartels, their networks, and their global supply chain and that is what we will continue to do.”

“Zambada Garcia’s day of reckoning in a U.S. courtroom has arrived and justice will follow,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York. “If convicted, never again will he deliver fentanyl, cocaine, and other deadly drugs and associated violence into our country or make millions as hundreds of thousands of innocent lives are lost. It is my hope that the countless family members and friends of victims who succumbed to his cartel’s poisons, and the countless members of law enforcement who fearlessly risked their lives fighting this scourge, should take comfort in knowing that Zambada Garcia will be held accountable for his multitude of crimes.”

“Zambada Garcia will now face the American justice system,” said U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe for the Southern District of Florida. “His arrest means that he will now have to face charges for leading the Sinaloa Cartel’s multi-billion-dollar criminal enterprise that funneled drugs onto our streets and violence and despair into our communities. But our work is not done. We will go after the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel and the drug trafficking organizations around the world.”

“Today’s arraignment sends a clear message to drug traffickers around the world — we will find you and bring you to justice,” said HSI Executive Associate Director Katrina W. Berger. “The men and women of HSI are working diligently with our partners around the globe to investigate, intercept and halt the flow of illegal drugs into the United States and keep illegal drugs off our streets.”

“The arraignment of this individual is a result of the relentless work of law enforcement partners at all levels to stem the tide of illegal drugs and drug related violence in our country,” said Superintendent Steven G. James of the New York State Police (NYSP). “Strong partnerships are key, and as a result, a dangerous international drug trafficking operation, and the organized crime perpetuated by it, has been shut down. The State Police will continue to tenaciously work in conjunction with our partners to seek out those who deliberately put others in danger.”

First New York Indictment

El Mayo was first indicted in the Eastern District of New York in 2009 and most recently in a fifth superseding indictment in February. As alleged, El Mayo was a co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel together with his co-defendant Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as El Chapo, and together they ran the Sinaloa Cartel together from Mexico until El Chapo’s arrest in 2016. Following a trial, El Chapo was convicted in the Eastern District of New York in 2019 and sentenced to life plus 30 years in prison.

According to allegations in the superseding indictment, from 1989 to 2024, El Mayo led a continuing criminal enterprise responsible for the importation and distribution of massive quantities of narcotics and which generated billions of dollars in profits. To ensure the success of the Sinaloa Cartel, El Mayo employed thousands of people in South and Central America, throughout Mexico and in the United States. Through a complex, layered structure, El Mayo was able to assure transportation routes for the narcotics he sold from source of supply to distribution on the streets of the United States. El Mayo also employed groups of “sicarios” or hit-men, who at his orders carried out kidnappings and murders in Mexico and elsewhere — including murders in the United States — to eliminate anyone who threatened this valuable narcotics pipeline and to retaliate against rivals and those suspected of cooperating with the U.S. government. The billions of dollars generated from the drug sales were then transported and laundered back to Mexico.

As set forth in the superseding indictment and other court filings, the Sinaloa Cartel, under El Mayo’s leadership, expanded its drug business into fentanyl manufacturing and distribution no later than 2012 and is responsible for the distribution of many thousands of kilograms of fentanyl into the United States. El Mayo also allegedly expanded the power and influence of the Sinaloa Cartel by making millions of dollars each year in corruption payments and conducting regular campaigns of brutal violence, including retaliatory murders that were allegedly committed on his orders as recently as just weeks prior to his arrest.

If convicted, El Mayo faces a mandatory minimum penalty of life in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Source DOJ

114 comments:

  1. Dont worry Sr. Zambada, the war will stop soon as Sicario 006 has the master plans for the Metropolitan Jail. He is digging a tunnel as we write. The GPS bracelet was given to MZ at court today. Your breakout and escape to the Sinaloan sierra is imminent.

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    1. Big Nuts Big Brains TrutherSeptember 14, 2024 at 12:41 AM

      The artists rendering is showing Mayo's dye job fading and the grey growing like weeds! Next photo with the dye job finished and the stress of his situation Mayo will look very very old and sickly!

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    2. 12:45 Maybe he'll go bald quickly like Chapo. No rogaine in prison.

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    3. This guy's an idiot... Go play modern warfare

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    4. Why do we let stupid ass comments like these go thru… ?
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    6. Pobre mayo todos los dias se la meten con todo y agaucates.

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    7. @5:55

      You are also scammers and will be reported.

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    8. @1225PM. So why you posting back during your lunch hour if this comment bothers you so much? Sic006 been around a long time posting mamadas and one of the few that has balls to no post anonymous. Everyone who is a regular gets that.

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    9. @4.31. Sounds like you're the one commenting on your lunch hour. Another dude in Amsterdam or India would be commenting while you sleep. OO6 isn't "brave" to post as a number instead of anonymous- if you called yourself 666 you would be just as untraceable to people you might offend who don't like being offended and have more guns than you as if you had commented anonymously. BB knows who you are whatever you call yourself.

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    10. Tango tango
      Ivan

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    11. So if they are using IP addresses at borderland, beat to obtain personal identifiable information. That is quite simply fraud. We.
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  2. Chapo Isidro, Caborca Cartel are siding with MZ in this war.

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  3. Mayo and his attorney look like freeze dried chimpanzees in that court drawing.

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    1. Monkey food agrees with him.

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    2. Mayo caga grueso.

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    3. His attorney has a small ass head tho for real… looks like Beetlejuice.

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  4. I mean cholos control 🕹️ their gangs from pelican bay these dude is lucky to be alive he would be like a OG EME General from his prision cell still operating around the world like or hate those are facts only death can stop these dudes Chapo guzman still sending orders to Sinaloa

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    1. Has chapo ordered to stop the world from spinning yet?

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    2. You think the government cares 🤣. They got their headlines already. Budgets are getting raised. The WOD is the gift that keeps giving!

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  5. In my own view, El Mayo's place in history is secure. Doing business to meet demand with supply, outside the law, he was relatively successful in minimizing unintended consequences inherent in any capitalist enterprise. IMHO very successful, given the milieu in which he operated in his later years. Respect is due, however I fear the USA's criminal justice system is no more able to recognize his success than it is to recognize that, as Charles Bowden's work so vividly illustrates, the war on drugs is a war on the poor.

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    1. Your logic might work if he wasn't a murderer, sweetheart.

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    2. 10:23 o for sure he secured a place in history, as been the biggest rat in the game

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    3. Shut the hell up. Fkin sympathizer. you can tell the people who never lost anyone to drug violence or drugs by how they talk.

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    4. Don't quote Charles Bowden. He would have been horrified by that comment, slapped his forehead and blown out his cheeks. Yes, the war on drugs is largely a war against the poor, and most of the violence in Mexico that the media leaps on has nothing to do with drugs, but he had a special hatred for men like Mayo who exploited both sides. He hated Mayo more than all of them.

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  6. Chikity check yourself before you wreck yo self

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  7. Cojidon le dio el chapo Jr al mayo y descojida ya no hay
    Le cobraron Caro la traicion que le hicieron al chapo los zambada. podran zacar a los guzman de culiacan pero mayo Jamas vuelva a mexico

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    1. Yea and now look at the results of that cojidon , se van a cojer a sus hermanos if the dont end up dead or in protective custody like damaso , the war against el MF is a lost cause , they are surrounded and just getting dropped left and right , while the menores are hiding in another state

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    2. 2:27 n there comes cjng trou Nayarit hitting mz while they too busy in culiacan

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  8. They will probably have chapo testify in court against mayo and reduce his life sentence. Just a thought??

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    1. Maybe for extradition to mexico he would

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    2. Chapo is staying put. The US don't like him.

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    3. He will do it just to begeneral population

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  9. Chapo Isidro and Caborca (Caro Quinteros) people along with La Mayiza are the ones mobilizing in CLN and the surrounding rancherias.

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    1. Caborca? LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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    2. 12:27 yeah you read it right Mija.

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    3. 11:26 those photos from caborca should send their guys to Mexico City to defend their own cause they getting mowed down 😂

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  10. I wonder of el chapo guzman found out about the ongoing conflict between the 2 factions already.

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    1. Probably. His lawyer is the proxy between him and what happens with his sons

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    2. Sicario006 ya le fue con el chisme al JGL

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    3. Most definitely, I believe they have access to news

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    4. He doesn't care. He only cares about being free to get his "vitaminas".

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  11. I think he is innocent.

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    1. Mayo is just a poor farmer. Mostly soybeans. He's a victim of bad finger pointing.

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  12. Fate has arrived after all! For all the victims in the fight against narcotics, a great pleasure. Chapo will not testify against MZ, but there are many candidates who would be happy to. We will see who will be the most important witness in the court case. Zambada thought they did a great job when they betrayed Chapo. REVENGE is yet to come and it will be very painful.

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    1. All the victims lmao you go Superman! Business is good with or without zumbada sorry the drug war is never gonna end. Cope harder lame

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    2. Ovidio cough cough

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    3. Not the same betrayal, Chapo was caught because of his lack of care, awareness and for being reckless. Mayo never betrayed him, not the same as turning you in as to already being inside and flipping on you. Everybody does that, only player who never said he would do it is MOCHOMO. The Menores, kidnapped MAYO to save Ovidio because he was going INSANE inside. If Mayo would have been caught by the authorities and then had OVIDIO or his godson testify against him to save themselves, that would have been different. Of course MF want's revenge for what they did to his dad and so do alot of other of his socios.

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    4. We'll see if the rules apply to thee but not me. I'll bet people end dead in mexico that are innocent but related to someone with dirty hands. Sucks to be mayo, sick and nearing 80 and on deaths door but he's where he put a lot of people.

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    5. Ovidio is testifying 100%. If they give Chapo better living conditions then I will also bet he will testify. Mayos going from master splinter to being on the recieving end of the kind of snitiching he okayed. Simple case of you made your bed you lay in it.

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  13. Drugs bring so much money , they will never stop.

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    1. They benefit the government of course it will never stop

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  14. El Raton & Guzman Lopez both have court on the same day & same Federal building on the last day of Sept. The Chicago Fed building allocates 25 free entry tickets for the general public for the 1st 25 people in line, get there early, if you want to see them personally.

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  15. Word on the streets is that Mayo Flaco is hiring Haitians from Ohio to eat Chapitos dogs and cats .

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  16. Did they draw him with his pampers pulled all the way up?




    RIP Gilbertona

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  17. MF forces killed at least 11 CJNG sicarios in Nayarit


    https://youtu.be/q9py52b9toQ?si=yXkLknWvSv1y2mbS


    https://youtu.be/i_pgeLlyrNg?si=pHRQ1WJ2HgkZv9DV


    El 8 alleged leader of Cartel de Caborca killed in CDMX


    https://youtu.be/aBTReU3urEs?si=OTemD-FMxPTyUppA



    Allegedly Memo or G3 flipped to MF side in Durango.


    https://youtu.be/MdW_MF26-I4?si=kXPxvgiRyUcu5xfS




    😎




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  18. G3 El Memo gave up his position of plaza boss (for Chapitos) of Tamazula Durango to Mayo Flaco to avoid war.

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    1. Source: el mexa news.... LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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  19. El MayoZambada is addicted to cocaine for years according to writer Annabel Hernandez.

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    1. His nose should be enough to let you lnow he is feen

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  20. Mayo turned himself in so he could spend his final days with his sons!!!!

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  21. at 2.57 i now drugs importers an rats micro pushers doing a lot of money.......the problem is you never will have peace like a normal person and enjoy a POZOLE.or few beers near the beach in mazatlan,

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  22. America again sticking their nose into another countries affairs. How many people are sitting in Americans jails from Mexico and nothing has stopped, Americans need drugs and look to the southern border for their fix. America was hoping to get $14b from MZ, this is all about American greed. The war on drugs is BS, it’s just an extortion racket created by America. Free all Mexican nationals sitting in American prisons.

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    1. 10:59 AM
      Lmao keep crying in your safe home in the U.S

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  23. ya pa acabarla kamala harris,dice que combatira al CDS...era lo que yo pensaba y despues iran por las jaliskas....y los gringos se llevaran hasta hecho el guacamole............te digo salio vacilona la plebe.......

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    1. Pues ovio que primero acava con las Gilbertonas que estan peleando entre ellas y luego va por las Jaliskas, eso es tan ovio como que tu tambien eres una Gilbertona 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  24. Gauno arrested breaking news 📰

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    1. King of the gay parade perhaps

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    2. 12:22 you are King of not using periods. 🤣

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    3. This is how sad this guy is,he is posting then answering his own questions,the perios ghoul is creepin

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    4. 3:40 and you continue forgetting your periods, such a slow dumb butt.

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  26. wasting are tax dollars let mexico prosecute him

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    1. Stupid nino, they Mexico won't prosecute him, they set him free, like Cienpedos.

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  27. Chapo betrayed Beltran, zambada betrayed chapo, chapo betrays mayo

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  28. Another video on the Sinaloa war . Head found inside a pizza box .


    https://youtu.be/kMLZL2MRJCg?si=58I6TQE4WPDHMWf_



    😎

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  29. This pretty much confirms what Mayonnaise said in the letter, that Cuen was at the meeting
    https://www.noroeste.com.mx/culiacan/geolocalizan-telefonos-de-escoltas-de-el-mayo-y-cuen-en-huertos-del-pedregal-informa-periodista-CY8526589

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  30. Damn, did fent slow down at all. Lol just a government trophy. While other cartels and c d s continue to flood us with fent. Big win USa.

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    1. And if they didn't arrest you would be complaining they're not doing enough, it's damn if they do and damn if they don't.

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  31. @2:57 I wanna see the money.

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  32. Mis contactos en Amatlan de Cañas Nayarit estan reportando que el CJNG liderado por la firma varela y sus soldados de origen colombiano les estan dando una vergizza a los chapos en los municipios de la frontera entre nayarit y sinaloa como que se estan aprovechando de la guerra en sinaloa pa ayudar al MF chapo isidro en fumigar a la chapiza alv

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    1. Connor stupid as fuck that's the mz faction in Nayarit u stupid maffacka

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    2. 12:31 take it easy fool, go back to school and learn to use periods
      I love Connor.♥️

      Rubio NYC

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    3. Connor is a fuckin clown who bends over for CJNG

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    4. 12:31 No se alebreste mi Gilbertona, sean Chapos o Mayos el CJNG les esta poniendo una verguiza a esas Gilbertonas

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  33. Yo here we go yo here we go oacho cuaco mocoso loco coco foco Choco krispie, taki tiki, pipa gimmie gimmie

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  34. These politicians try to take credit when in reality this was the betrayal of the century and Mayo basically fell in your laps.

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  35. Mi got huevotes, mi gots mi huevos take a look at mi LADO oh oh otro lado oh oh simon simon

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  36. El mayo zambada tambien le puso dedo a Caro quintero

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  37. LFM, being the feria stacking juggernauts that they're, been capitalizing on this nortena conflict. Michocanos have stacked so much feria from this that they've started sending feria to they're relatives in the US so they can stack it over there. Sinalocas are clapping each other while michocanose are growing. Just like mi compa Sol kept telling you reddit ninas. Sol was what kept this website balanced. Now it's just connor la nalgona de redwood, sic006 the 5'2" cod content creator, and these longaniza huggers pretending to be nortenas with they're Guerrero tortillas and shiken san'wish always commenting made up unrelated shit. Fucken miss Sol.




    -Semper Fi-

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    1. Just suck his dick already

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    2. Ya dale las nalgas al joto tecato de Sol Vendido .

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    3. Aquí andamos Semper Fi pero en otros rollos. No le hagas caso a estas pinches pulgas feas que te rodean. 😂

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    4. No senor ~~~ takis

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    5. Sol is back to blocking comments. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    6. Fi Fi and his LFM rant's and raves.

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  38. Que rollo con en Markitos se lo llevaron o nomás los carros?

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  39. The US will not return El Mayo to Mexico even if there is overwhelming evidence he was kidnapped. Since he was not extradited he can face the death penalty, a condition that would prohibit his extradition from Mexico. The Americans still sabre rattle threats of sending in US troops to save their citizens from the scourge of fentanyl when all evidence suggests Mexico delivers less than 15% of all US fentanyl and that is provided by many organizations in Mexico other than the Sinaloa cartel. It is a pretext all still the attempt to cover up that the CIA killed KiKi. The real conversations with Mayo and his lawyers is how much of the assets will remain for the family for how much information Mayo doe not reveal.

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  40. Mayos never done time right? Hes probably doing some terrible jailing in New York right now. Dude is probably in shock.

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  41. solecito look like loquito.......que pasa plebe

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  42. El Mayo with Diddy in New York jail

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