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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Feds recommend 17 years in prison for Vicente Zambada, out in 5

BrownTown for Borderland Beat from ChicagoSun

 ‘Unrivaled’ cooperation against drug lords, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors in Chicago are asking a judge to sentence one of Mexico’s most powerful narcotics traffickers to 17 years in prison, giving him a break because of the extraordinary help he gave in providing information about leaders of his Sinaloa drug cartel and their rivals.

Vicente Zambada-Niebla, 44, coordinated trains, ships, Boeing 747s and submarines to move cocaine from South America to Mexico between 1996 and 2008. He also supervised Margarito Flores and Pedro Flores, twins from Chicago who smuggled tons of coke to Chicago. They both got 14-year sentences after they cooperated against the Sinaloa cartel.

Zambada-Niebla moved his family to Spain and Canada, only to get pulled back to Mexico to live and work under the umbrella of his father, the Sinaloa cartel’s shadowy co-leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who remains on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s most-wanted list.


Zambada-Niebla reached out to the DEA to resolve a federal charge against him in Washington. He was arrested in Mexico in 2009. After being extradited to Chicago, where he faced other charges, he eventually began cooperating with federal authorities.

He was debriefed about his knowledge of the inner-workings of the narcotics world more than 100 times. What prosecutors called his “unrivaled” cooperation led to charges against dozens of “high-level” targets and hundreds of their associates in federal courts across the United States, prosecutors said.
Earlier this year, his testimony helped the government convict kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera in Brooklyn. Guzman is expected to get a life sentence.

But Zambada-Niebla — known as El Vicentillo or Mayito — will probably meet a different fate when he’s sentenced in federal court in Chicago on May 30. Even though he faces a potential life sentence, prosecutors have asked Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo to give him 17 years in prison because he testified against Guzman and other cartel bosses.

Because he’s already been in custody for a decade, Zambada-Niebla would, in effect, face about five more years in prison — including so-called “good time” — if the judge agrees with the recommendation by prosecutors.

Zambada-Niebla was charged in 2009 in Chicago in a far-reaching federal indictment against Guzman and his Sinaloa cartel associates. In a call arranged by federal authorities, El Mayo gave his son the go-ahead to snitch on the cartel, according to law-enforcement sources involved in the investigation.

Prosecutors aren’t downplaying the gravity of Zambada-Niebla’s activities. They noted that he passed along messages from his father to assassins in the Sinaloa cartel to carry out multiple killings.

They also said Zambada-Niebla and his family “will live the rest of their lives in danger of being killed in retribution” for his cooperation. They will be under government protection.

“These very real threats to him and his family make a return to drug trafficking next to impossible,” prosecutors wrote.


69 comments:

  1. When he gets out of there, he will be eaten alive by the cartel sacarios.

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    1. I doubt it. Its all a conspiracy he will be fine

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    2. His biggest threat will be the Guzmanes, proven backstsbbers. Only they can get to him other cartels will have a hard time killing this guy.

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    3. Bruh. El hijo del Mayo you really think that’s gonna happen to him. I really doubt it
      He is no small fish

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    4. @ 12:17 Lmao at Guzmanes being backstabbers. What do you call what Vicente did?

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    5. So he rats on his father and his associates but the guzmanes are proven backstabbers not third guy that testified and has been cooperating. Very interesting maybe you looking at a different website and reading different things than me.

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  2. He's 100% a SNITCH... Pues no que muy hombrecito los de Sinaloa?

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  3. Hey Sicario006 you root for a cartel full a snitches, you are probably a snitch yourself??

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    1. So what it's ok to white blow, he got years reduced for coming clean, surely you would that if you were locked up in the slammer.

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    2. 006 is a keyboard warrior and no sicario. He is pure BS. He is no member of GN and spreads troll lies

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    3. Everybody snitches in every cartel dont fool yourself bud.

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    4. Leave Sicario 006 alone, this is his brother your talking about🤣

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    5. Whoa whoa whoa @ 10:07. Don’t you dare bad mouth the realest cat on BB. 😂😂😂😂😂 sorry couldn’t hold it in.

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    6. @ 2:06 you and 006 are Trolls with the flower power special forces jaja. Go read some poems with ALMO with your delusions

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  4. 10:07 LOL . Isnt that the nature of the cartels ? When you say Mexican drug cartel you said a whole lot of things that goes along with that name . Honorable is not one of them .

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  5. WWhy is everyone so butthurt lol

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    1. I don't see anyone being butthurt in the comments.

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  6. Just shows you all the cds nut huggers out there Snitchaloa doing what they do best then you have ever one talking shit about the trevinos but look at them 40 42 and kike none of them snitched they’ve took there prison like men that’s why soo many people joined zetas to fight for them

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    1. @10:53 That Type of mindset will get you nowhere

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    2. 10:53 that's the life he had but didn't want to follow his dad footsteps. Scary narco junior, mayo raised him too soft

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  7. So it was Mayo all along

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  8. Pobrecito 😫 the fact that he moved his fam to Spain and Canada showed that he really tried to get away from that life, I don’t understand why his dad didn’t just give him money and let him go live his life. Why teach your children bad ways 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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    1. his family was moved to the U.S. by the U.S. and the wife given 1M "to begin a new life" they are in witness protection, just as he will be

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    2. although the spoiled whinny narco is an ass, he honestly never wanted to be in the life. sort of like mochomo, who I named "The reluctant narco" but he refused to rat ojut anyone and will never leave prison alive

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    3. Who gave her the million dollars??

      I hope they can retake their relationship where they left it and be very happy. He is a little spoiled baby but I dont think he’s as bad as the majority of narcos.....

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    4. Sad, very sad!

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    5. Waste of taxpayer dollars IMO.

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    6. El Mochomo was the last of a dying breed. Kept his mouth shut and took it like a man.

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    7. But wasn’t he accused of calientando la plaza de TJ? He supposedly was killing a bunch of cops there etc and was sent by his father to do so?

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    8. @ chivis why would you even put mocohomo in this .he is not relevant to this piece of garbage. Mochomo took a life sentence like a man .we mochomos/H's/Flores within the circle associates dont rat out are own people nor flee .We Die in the line of fire and face are mistakes como dicen Con
      Huevos De Toro

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    9. I bet he will be out by 2021

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    10. Killing Arellanuses is not heating up the plasa,
      it means earning up the tolido,
      Chente earned his place, daddy did not give it to him, unlike his little brothers and el mini lic. His daddy did not give him what he stole from the government either.

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  9. You know CDS are kings when every comment is haters lol.

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    1. Not really, most are facts.. cds are rats and now cjng took their #1 spot without snitching.

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  10. La Buena vida.

    Turruruu
    EL JUAN CAMANEY

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  11. Puro Cartel De Sinaloa. Arriba El Señor Chapo Guzman y su compadre El Mayo Zambada .Gente Nueva Special Forces montiors this website please refrain from making negative comments about CDS ,our leaders ,our people or the state of Sinaloa !

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    1. Not funny this time 👎🏻

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    2. 😂😂😂 they can monitor these nuts!

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    3. Say it louder for the people in the back Sicario006🤣

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    4. Puro Troll. This is 006 armband patch 🌈

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  12. Funny... You guys buy this BS about him wanting to leave this life... This guy ran all ops for the Zambadas until he was caught... Even now his gente await his return... His dad is old and sick... The only reason el viejos word carries weight is because everyone knows El Vicentillo is coming back and you better not cross him... This fulano is one of the most blood thirsty iron fist cartel heads to have ever existed... Ask his sisters what happened to their husbands...

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    1. Can’t you tell us what happened to their husbands??????

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    2. he’s going to be living in the United States under the governments eye for the remainder of his life

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    3. 2:23 y porque no nos dices tu
      y nos ahorras el pinche viaje, GUEY?
      why don't you tell us and save us the facking trip, Guey?
      --La pinche neta, al Vicentillo le falto matar un guey, tu...

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    4. Why don't you just tell us!!!

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  13. I wonder if other Sinaloa Cartel leaders are mad at El Mayo because of his son's snitching?

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    1. Independents know everything is for a reason as they continue thriving.

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  14. He was set te be out soon but he's so scared of mencho that he asked the judge to give him a few extra year and Hopefully his dad brings back vieja escuela.. true story, I heard it from sicario 006

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  15. Just visited Hawaii. As you drive out of the airport there’s a manta that reads Sinaloa Tortillas. In front of a business of course. I wonder what additional white flour substance their bringing in to Honolulu?

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    1. That’s my boys shop, leave him alone and respect the people who work and live clean!
      Cuauht and his family worked day in and out to be where they are now.

      Next time your in town go to his shop and ask for him he’s a really down to earth dude.

      -the guy who knows nothing

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  16. He gave up, what he was told. If there ewas beef between the Zambadas, and Guzman's, one or the other would've been dead or caught. VZ didn't add much to Chapo's trial, he wasn't even necessary. Everyone else he gave up we're deemed expendable.. If he truly gave "unrivaled" coop, then CDS would be crippled. They are still there. What other Narco family in the world, could pull off a I'm sure highly tracked phone call? They would've known EXACTLY where Mayo was...nothing happened. Why?? Chapo was worth that much? Crazy game.

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    1. U are so correct. His cooperation did nothing more than agree to a slap on the wrist. Added with a hefty price to pay US government for lienenci.

      What many here don't know is that; while in custody he tried obtaining information on the whereabouts of the twins family members. Resulting with the relocation of the Twins in-laws. A recorded conversation by government from a drug dealer in custody facing drug charges in Chicago. Turned out to be a devastating blow to this individual due to his agreement / cooperation with federal prosecutors.
      Given a hefty sentence for passing such information pertaining to Mayito. A voided plea agreement by federal prosecutors for this individual.
      While no added charges were applied to Vincentillo for his role of conspiracy to kill those associated with the twins.

      The way I see it Granderojo, he got a sweet deal (Vincentillo). While the other for his slickness turned out to be the opposite (40+ years).
      There are no true friends in this game.

      Saludos

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    2. He is a rat and live out the rest of his life scared and running like one

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  17. ...yea king snitches

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  18. It’s all a chess game. Vicentillo is actually the most powerful the world will witness!. in the next 5 years or so.. El Niño is the next big boss/nightmare/devil and the US is helping set it all up!.....

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    1. You got it all wrong , he’s a coward

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    2. If he’s got half a brain, he will get out and enjoy the fortune which he has amassed. Maybe move product here and there low key and keep it moving. He’s been out of the mix for too long, is too well known to do anything big and it’s a different game than when he went in. It’s men his turn now. If he were to get caught again it would be an embarrassment to the US justice system. Which NO NARCO is above

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  19. Arriba la mochomera

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    1. Arriba La Mochomera, there will be other appeals, judges, courts and juries, and a life to fix a few broken things, who knows, even a few intractable US politicians may end up as roomates of a few Mexican narcos pa que aprendan a tocar corneta antes de hacer la tlalacha y despues de hacer el pruno...

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  20. This pic is from 2010 when he was extradited? He looks so good I wish we had a recent one 🤤

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  21. Hey, parnas, if you see Emiliano Salinas hijo de su pinche madre, I mean hijo de Carlos Salinas de Gortari, he is wanted in New York for being a co-founder of NXIVM, traffick of persons, slavery and exploitation...
    His partner in Canada has been in prison for a while, among his first victims were daughters of Canadian Seagrams, Clare and Nancy Bromfman...
    Emiliano Salinas wife senora Paleta has left him, some say.
    Daddy Salinas is worried his dinero can't save emili.

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    1. I will be on the hunt for him. Along with sicario

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