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Friday, June 24, 2022

“Mayito Gordo” Zambada Sentenced to 9 Years in US Prison

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

After pleading guilty in 2021, Ismael Zambada Imperial, son of "El Mayo" was sentenced in the US to 9 years with credit for time served in both countries.

Ismael Zambada Imperial, better known as "Mayito Gordo," son of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael Mario Zambada García, alias "El Mayo," was sentenced to nine years in prison by Judge Danna Sabraw, of the Federal Court of the Southern District of California, after a hearing held on June 24, 2022, after he pleaded guilty on April 30, 2021, to importing and distributing methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana into the United States.

The son of the Sinaloan capo will be credited with the years served from November 12, 2014, when he was captured after an operation carried out by the Secretary of the Navy (Semar) and the Federal Police (PF), in "El Ranchito de Los Burgos”, located 60 kilometers south of Culiacán, Sinaloa. Therefore, he would only have one year left on his sentence.

"Mayito Gordo" will continue his confinement in the San Diego Metropolitan Detention Center and it was not known if he would be transferred to another prison to serve the rest of the agreed time. The indictment alleges that Zambada Imperial conspired to transport the drug, in addition to laundering and transferring drug proceeds to Mexico, "for the benefit of members of the Sinaloa Cartel and their associates."

Guilty Plea in 2021

Zambada Imperial, also known as "El Buen Chico," pled guilty on April 30, 2021, in the Federal Court of the Southern District of California, in San Diego, accused of importing and distributing methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana to the United States. The son of one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel agreed to give $5 million dollars to the United States Government.

When federal judge Dana Sabraw read each of the accusations against him to "Mayito Gordo" and asked him how he pleaded, Zambada Imperial replied in Spanish "guilty." In their agreement, the federal prosecutors asked the court to consider the time he had been in the custody of the Mexican authorities and stop charging him with money laundering, since, until that moment, he had been imprisoned for almost seven years, both in Mexico, as in California.

However, Judge Sabraw warned that, given the seriousness of "El Mayito Gordo's" crimes, he faced a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and that this would be left to the discretion of the Court. Zambada Imperial accepted "that he ordered violent acts such as members of the Sinaloa Cartel, for the benefit of drug smuggling activities”, as mentioned by the magistrate.

“You admit that you became a leader within the Sinaloa Cartel and were responsible for various aspects of the cartel's operations, specifically you admit in the [guilt] agreement that you coordinated and organized with other members of the Sinaloa Cartel the transportation and the distribution of large quantities of illicit substances, including cocaine, heroin, and marijuana for importation from Mexico to the United States,” the judge said.

According to journalist Keegan Hamilton, "Mayito Gordo" admitted to having sent 450 kilos of cocaine and 90 kilos of heroin, relatively small amounts for a criminal organization the size of the Sinaloa Cartel. 

Extradition in 2019

On December 19, 2019, Ismael Zambada Imperial, better known as "Mayito Gordo" a son of the current leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was extradited to the United States. A day later, on December 20, 2019, "El Mayito Gordo" appeared before the Federal Court of the Southern District of California, in San Diego, California, accused of criminal association for the distribution of narcotics. However, he pled not guilty to the crimes charged against him. In the same accusation, US prosecutors include his father, "El Mayo," his brother Ismael Zambada-Sicairos, and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, "El Chapito," son of Sinaloan capo Joaquín Archivaldo Guzman Loera, "El Chapo."

The extradition of "El Mayito Gordo" took place after serving just half of his sentence in Mexico and after 5 years of trying to avoid being transferred to the US.

Amparo

In mid-December 2019, Patricio Leopoldo Vargas Alarcón, Judge Tenth of Amparo District in Criminal Matters, granted an Amparo to Zambada Imperial, to be transferred from the Federal Center for Social Rehabilitation (CEFERESO) 2 “Occidente,” in El Salto, Jalisco, to a prison in Mexico City.

The federal judge did not order the transfer of the prison, although it did annul the resolution of the Fourth District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters of Zapopan where it was filed 399/ 2015 in May of that same year, with which the appeal was filed by Zambada Imperial was dismissed because the unspecified incident was ruled inadmissible.

"The responsible authority did not pronounce in a sufficient and detailed manner on the grounds, reasons, and circumstances that led it to make the decision to dismiss the appeal outright, there is no doubt that their fundamental rights were violated to the detriment of the petitioner for Amparo. of legality and legal certainty, by not having the certainty of the reason for the action of the responsible execution judge”, indicated the resolution of Vargas Alarcón.

For its part, the General Coordination of Federal Centers of the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Rehabilitation reported, at the time, that the center where "El Mayito Gordo" requested his transfer did not have adequate infrastructure, nor did it have the level of security to the proper internment of said person.

In addition to the fact that there was no agreement between the Federation and Mexico City, for the granting of the requested transfer. After this response, the authority determined that the unspecified incident did not proceed, so the complainant appealed, but the judge dismissed said legal remedy.

However, Judge Vargas Alarcón pointed out that the Fifth District Court Specialized in the Execution of Sentences did not explain in a clear, consistent, and coherent manner the grounds and reasons that justify said determination. On two previous occasions, Zambada Imperial had requested fundamental rights trials for the same cause. One of them before the Sixth Court specialized in the matter (1740/2014) and another in the Second Court of the same branch (1821/2014). Both were dismissed because the prison authorities denied the claimed act.

US Extradition Granted in 2015

In November 2015, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) granted the US the extradition of the son of "El Mayo," after the endorsement of the Sixth District Judge in Federal Criminal Proceedings, based in the Men's Preventive Prison Oriente, so that “El Mayito Gordo” could be transferred to the country where his brothers Vicente Zambada Niebla, “El Vicentillo,” and Serafín Zambada Ortiz, “Flaco,” are imprisoned, also on drug trafficking charges (at the time).

However, the legal defense of "El Mayito Gordo", as he is identified in the Court of the Southern District of California, promoted an Amparo against the measure, for which he obtained a provisional suspension of the order that would hand him over to the US Government.

In March 2014, the Federal Prosecutor's Office for the Southern District of California filed an indictment against the son of "El Mayo Zambada", along with 14 other drug traffickers, for the crimes of uninterrupted illicit association, conspiracy, and illegal introduction of marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines across the border from Tijuana, Baja California, into California and the US East Coast, in addition to money laundering conspiracy.

After the judge's decision, the SRE endorsed the extradition order, considering that the United States Government had complied with the corresponding guidelines, for which it made arrangements with the United States Government for the delivery of Zambada Imperial.

The scene of "Mayito Gordo's" arrest outside of Culiacan, Sinaloa.

Arrest in 2014

On November 12, 2014, the son of "El Mayo Zambada" was captured after an operation carried out by the Secretary of the Navy (SEMAR) and the Federal Police (PF), in "El Ranchito de Los Burgos", located 60 kilometers south of Culiacán, Sinaloa. In Mexico, "El Mayito Gordo" was sentenced to 10 years in prison for violating the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives.


Sons of "El Mayo".

According to the US, among the accomplices of the son of the Sinaloa capo, who is accused of directing the Sinaloa Cartel cell in charge of drug trafficking to California, are René Arzate García, alias "La Rana", and his brother Alfonso Arzate Garcia, "The Achilles". In addition to his younger brother, Serafín Zambada Ortiz, "Flaco," as well as Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, "El Chino Ántrax".

Known for flaunting his life as a narco-junior on social media, Zambada Imperial is the third son of El Mayo Zambada, who is facing trial in the United States. The first of his children was Vicente Zambada Niebla, arrested in Mexico in 2009 and extradited a year later to Illinois, where his accusation is pending. Vicentillo was sentenced in May 2019 to 15 years in prison, to be served in 2024. However, according to official documents, he is no longer in the custody of the United States prison system, so likely a protected witness.

He was followed by Serafín Zambada Ortiz, alias Sera, who was arrested in November 2013 when he tried to cross the Nogales international bridge on foot into the United States. He was sentenced to five and a half years in prison and on September 11, 2018, he left prison to return to Mexico. His indictment contained only one count of conspiracy to import methamphetamine and cocaine.

Sources Zeta Tijuana, Borderland Beat

78 comments:

  1. Not a lot of time for all those kilos. Did he snitch? You guys say it's in the Sinaloense blood. You all say CDS has No honor, just snitch on their compadres. Weak ass cartel

    ~Changuito Sicario Nuthugger

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    1. Monkey changuito sicario hated snitches.

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    2. Call him what you like , but he basically got a slap on wrist for what he’s done. And I bet as long as El Mayo lives no one will touch him.

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    3. he had no big role on cartel, and i really doubt he compromised his dad organization. However he could provide info about their enemies, politicians, and other key people. By the other side, his half brother, V Zambada Niebla is another story...

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  2. Another son of The KingRat®(KR) who has benefitted from the multi decade cooperation the SNITCHaloa Cartel has had with the DEA. If the Arzate Garcia brothers are captured and extradited they will not receive the same lenient sentences as all the Zambadas have, in fact they maybe killed before being turned over, since both MZ and MF are also accused in the same indictment but the KR is getting old and doesn't want to have the same fate as the recently deceased "chessplayers" GJRO. He will not allow MF to be exposed to a non negotiated sentence since it's difficult to predict what the mafiosos reaction in Sinaloa would be to his demise and the return of JVZN to take leadership of the Zambada faction.
    "El más chingón de todos"😝

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    1. 👋👋👋👍👍👍

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    2. What state are you from
      And cual mas chingon de todos en que

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    3. 11:41 que quisiste preguntar al ultimo?

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    4. @11:41 así dice una canción del MZ

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  3. Fat snitch ass piece of shit!

    Anyone heard of Vicente Zambada complaining about his razor 🪒 not being sharp enough to shave. Chivis brought this up once on post. These kids are a bunch of fresas

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    1. You guys are so naive and quick to take jabs at ppl without even having a clue as to how the world works .. in the US you have what’s called the Federal Bureau of Prisons, they’re purpose is to mandate certain standards when it comes to almost every aspect of the prison including inmates quality of life while incarcerated. Therefore surveys are conducted amongst prison staff and inmates, giving inmates the opportunity to voice concerns or complaints. It’s not like Vicente is constantly crying and complaining to authorities about some dull shaving blade, he was probably asked and his answer was recorded and became public. Trust me your probably a millennial or worse, your soft ass would find something to complain being in that situation 😂

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    2. @5:51
      Keep defending this lame, you queer!

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    3. 5:51 whats softer than complaining about a dull shaving blade? Ill answear the question, people who defend a snitch jahajajaja

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    4. I'm not saying is good to be in jail but compared to Mexico jail in the USA you're in the glory.

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    5. 5:51 i aint no millenial, and wven the millenias now a days are harder than any zambada, 🤣😂🤣 i dont know what worse, zambadas snitching asses or people who deffend them snitching

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    6. This blog is full of kids that have no clue and whats with all the emojis! Need some type of age regulation

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    7. 10:10 come on!! just admitt you are a snitchloa

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    8. 10:10 🤣🤣 pinche vato, te molestan los imojis? O la verdad de que los sinaloas son snitches?

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  4. Dam really my homie got 12 yrs for 2 pounds of G and a couple of priors

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    1. That's cause your homie was well connected with CJNG and probably one of Menchos lieutenants. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    2. I doubt that this happened in AZ in 2013 so it was salazares most likely and you need to stfu fucking pussy

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    3. "well connected" with CJNG?? Mencho? Thats not even a "connection"

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  5. For shure does snitchloas

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  6. He should be out VERY SOON

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  7. Why do sinaloans snitch so much? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    1. Its in their blood snitching and envy is strongly in their genes

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  8. A la verga, ya puedo dormír tranquilo con esta noticia de una persona que ni conozco.

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  9. How strange him and his brothers are all bosses and got short sentences for moving tons but they hit chapo with life 🤔 difference chapo kept his mouth shut .

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    1. 🤦 chapo got life cause he wanted to jump his bosses (DEA), he was snitching on everybody and felt untouchable, was making so much noise that they didnt even wanted to hear his snitching anymore, if you even followed his trial he snitched on peña and felipe, but USA didnt do shit cause come on mexico and usa are in it together, if they had followed his snitching it would of have uncovered a lot of shit and mexico and usa dont want none of that, so yea he is one of the biggest snitches there is and was

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    2. 9:32 Arturo Beltran Leyva's revenge from hell, genarco Garcia Luna did not expect the pay back for betraying El Barbas to rob his operation, same with El Chapo, FECAL and EPN next.

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    3. Lmao he said Chapo kept his mouth shut, LMAOOOO

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    4. When he had that clown kill that guy he made a mistake

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    5. If you think chapo didnt snitch you are living in a different reality

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    6. "El Chapo, ya no es el Chapo, solo el sabe quien es el.... por que al verdaaadero chapo..... no lo vooolveran a veeeer.... " ♪♪♪♪

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    7. After getting extradited from guatemala, Chapo sang on the plane, and said soo many truths about his accomplices in the mexican government the custodians had to slap Chapo on the snout to make him shut the fuck up, president zedillo took it easy, Salinas was not his padrote anymore, but when FOX started his period, Chapo got picked up in a limo at the doors of Puerta Grande, surrounded by mystery and El Lic Mamason

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  10. This isnt Mayos Eldest son though. El Vicentillo is mayos oldest son
    Mayito Gordo is roughly 39 years old while Vicentillo is almost pushing 50 now. I believe hes 47 or so

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    1. 47 years. 13 of those in prison. He was like 34 when he went in.

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    2. Thanks for doing that math for us we were all stumped

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  11. Not long enough for the scum

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  12. All these uneducated fools saying he snitched or his people snitch. Mayo runs the trade in Mexico and across the world, Mencho was Mayo’s gopher and that’s all he’ll be. How would you clowns feel if you got 9 years? You’d be happy right. Mencho never had any pull when he was alive. His people are barely living, stealing hub caps and catalytic converters.

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    1. He snitched bro, I know it makes you feel some type of way because you’re a fan. He snitched that’s the reality.

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    2. 8:07 do you really want to go there? Mayo does not run the trade, DEA dies, mencho wasnt mayos gopher, he had loyalty to nacho, but chapo snitched on nacho so mencho split nowing he would also get snitched on, how would i feel getting 9 years? Well ill tell you what, i just wouldnt do the crime thats the easiest way to not spend 9 years or more in prison, menchos people are barely living stealing car parts? Well i would rather do that than kill 2 priest for no reason, you happy my snitch friend?

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    3. 9:17 that Homie does not know cacas the snitchloas r to famous to Being the biggest snitches

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    4. 8:07 lol Mayo does not run the worlds drug trade. Sound like your actually on drugs

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    5. In fact, Mayo / CDS runs more than 90% of cocaine world trade. Not sure about other drugs.

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    6. 5:42 of curse he is on drugs, all sinaloans are drug addicts

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    7. 4:27 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 90% 😂😂😂😂😂😂 lla deja el maldito vicio

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    8. 427 the the Albanians Russians Chinese buys wholesale Direct from South America and transports there own loads no Mexicans involve

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  13. Hopefully he follows his older brother and seeks a better life

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  14. I've been told from someone in the know that snitches go home for Christmas. Is this true, can anyone confirm? 🤣

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    1. So you are implying that all sinaloans go home for christmas?🤣

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    2. Yo Sol indulge me on this. Imagine that just like any parent wanting the best for their kid especially when they know they aren't going to be around much longer. And they work something out to get his kids out of the game because if he leaves him wit Chapos kids that will start some problems. As long as Zambada is there. That prevents certain things from happening to his clan. But all this time he was making moves to get them out. I believe that Chapos kids have probably seen and done a few gruesome things and maybe Zambadas kids havent. And so, it seems better for him not to leave em in that mess before things get ugly.

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    3. Before things get ugly, when is the last time things weren’t ugly in Mexico. What like the 80s ?

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    4. Red Panties in the house.

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  15. That dude had a balloon head

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  16. It's simple... Anyone who has the police on their payroll here or in Mexico. Are All rats. Because in order to be on the same page with them. You have to give up your own kind.

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    1. What do you think criminals are? LOL. Criminals don't follow rules, they break them. The higher you are in the game, the easier it is to betray those below you.

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    2. 11:02 .Most Mexican police and former melitary in the police, and the Guarida Nacional are still infested with corruption and impunity and hold the government hostage, but they honor former mexican melitary they have betrayed and sent to prison, the firing squad, or to plain murderers like General manuel mondragon y Kalb
      Among their victims: Felipe Angeles, Gustavo Madero, Francisco I Madero, Villa, Zapata, Belisario Dominguez, General Rafael Buelna, even don Venustiano, Jefe Supremo de los Carrancistas did not escape

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  17. Comandante Panindicuarense

    Puras 4 letras a la verga

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  18. The goverment must arrest his useless father too.

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  19. He has to pay 5 million to the US Govt? Wtf? Why not 20 million to the foster care system to support the children removed from junkie, addicted parents, an incredibly bull shit funded program. So many other programs could have also a had a few million paid to them. 😡

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    1. Our taxes pay for that.

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    2. Dont blame the traffickers... Blame the users and politics that allows that shit keep running.

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    3. The addicts are too many mouths to feed, better to arrest the drug traffickers nalgas, their prison guards need to save all they can for the private Corrections of America, Inc. who even get prisoners govt. allowances to buy their very expensive junk food in the commissary.

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  20. I trip out on ppl’s views... the arguments over did he snitch or not...? Of course they do... most of them do... (Maybe not Mochomo) Vicentillo said it in court himself... once in the US there are no rules... if it gets a lighter sentence they will do it... now in regards to Mayo... what he has done is smart... most of his kids are relatively free with only a lil time served... without the threat of the US govt coming back to mess with them... he has no regards to what anybody thinks... if Chapo could do the same he would... Mencho’s daughter got very little time as well... it will be interesting to see if Menchito will serve a full sentence... the name of the game is survival... these guys will do what they have to... if you were facing a life sentence many of you would be singing like a canary...

    -Holden D. Cash

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    1. Mencho?!?! funny, thats a great invention.

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    2. Most will say they would not snitch or they would rather go out in a hail of gunfire because they're not facing that reality. They're unrealistic, the only danger they will ever face is the one they imagine. Once that reality hits, it's a whole different story. How many times has Mochomo tried getting his sentence reduced? Y'all know why, cause reality started to set in.

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    3. Kids on here don't understand this part of the game

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    4. Holden da pennies.

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  21. Ummm to 1239am. I'm sure Ms H knows that our taxes pay for those programs. He's statement is more of how little they took out and also how there are some many other programs that would benefit from a bigger portion of his money considering the damage all the drugs have done to some

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  22. The México USA extradition treaty has a clause that no Mexican national can be extradited to the USA if he will receive a sentence comparable to life without parole or the death penalty. This is agreed to and written on the extradition documents. Chapo got life because the EPN government wasn't concerned with his outcome, que se lo chinguen al buey por querer jugarla al chingón. Mochomo got life because he plead guilty to what he was being charged with, I think to all the charges that he was accused of, basically he was unwilling to cooperate/debrief/snitch in any fashion and being a "macho".
    He is the interesting part of the extradition treaty, a Mexican national can be repatriated back to his country to finish his sentence after a certain time has passed. I believe the inmate has to make the petition through the consulate.
    Huevo Treviño is S.O.L with his possible prison sentence because he is a USA citizen and didn't have any legal permit to be in México.

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  23. two years without visiting this web page and the michoachangos keep crying saying things like snitch momy he is a snitch damn kids this is the real life if you were in that situation you would also become a snitch hahahahaha

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    1. YFR 2yrs wo checking BB, u ain't got 2 lie 2 kick it ESE

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    2. 5:39 he just posted a bunch of michoacangos bs a few days ago hahaha

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