Ismael Mario Zambada García, the former drug lord and top leader of the Sinaloa cartel known as El Mayo, will plead guilty to federal drug charges.

Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...

Brooklyn Federal Court Magistrate Judge James Cho ordered he be held without bail. Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia, the co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in the United States on ...

In this courtroom sketch, Ismael Zambada Garcia, El Mayo, center, is seated beside his defense attorney Frank Perez, left, in Federal court, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Sept. 13 ...

In this courtroom sketch, Ismael Zambada García, El Mayo, center, is seated beside his defense attorney Frank Perez, left, in Federal court, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Sept. 13, ...

In this courtroom sketch, Ismael Zambada Garcia, El Mayo, center, is seated beside his defense attorney Frank Perez, left, in federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Friday, Sept.