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, ...

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 on Friday, Sept.

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 ...

The fifth superseding indictment was filed against Ismael Zambada Garcia or "El Mayo", 76, is the current top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel that controls a majority of the illicit drugs sold in ...