Mexican special forces captured a senior leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel accused of ordering the contract killing of 23-year-old beauty influencer Valeria Márquez, shot dead inside her own salon while thousands watched on TikTok. Ramon Nagel Alvarez Ayala, known by the alias "El R1," was taken into custody during a raid that left […] The post Mexican authorities arrest CJNG cartel figure accused of ordering influencer's killing during TikTok livestream appeared first on American Almanac .
Mexican special forces captured a senior leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel accused of ordering the contract killing of 23-year-old beauty influencer Valeria Márquez, shot dead inside her own salon while thousands watched on TikTok. Ramon Nagel Alvarez Ayala, known by the alias "El R1," was taken into custody during a raid that left one member of his security team dead. Federal security secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch identified Ayala as a top figure in the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or CJNG, one of Mexico's most powerful criminal organizations. Prosecutors now accuse him of ordering the hit on Márquez after his son's romantic relationship with her ended. The killing itself, carried out last May inside Márquez's beauty…Open
An officer also discovered a plastic sandwich bat in an exterior pocket of the briefcase containing pills. Field testing returned a presumptive positive result for cocaine and fentanyl, the affidavit states.
A whistleblower alleges a pattern of institutional retaliation designed to silence people who raised alarms about a deadly government practice, suggesting that the fentanyl-walking scandal in New Mexico may have been compounded by efforts to punish those who spoke out.
Independent journalist Nick Shirley is pushing back against critics who tried to discredit his Minnesota daycare fraud investigation, pointing to a fresh guilty plea and a video that reached 100 million views as proof his reporting holds up. Shirley sat down with Fox News Digital at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, where he addressed the […] The post Nick Shirley answers Minnesota fraud critics with guilty plea and 100 million views appeared first on American Almanac .
Independent journalist Nick Shirley is pushing back against critics who tried to discredit his Minnesota daycare fraud investigation, pointing to a fresh guilty plea and a video that reached 100 million views as proof his reporting holds up. Shirley sat down with Fox News Digital at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, where he addressed the backlash head-on. The woman at the center of his investigation, Fahima Egeh Mahamud, tied to Minnesota's sprawling "Feeding Our Future" scandal and a government-funded daycare fraud scheme, had just entered a guilty plea, he said. For Shirley, the timing spoke for itself. Fox News Digital reported that Shirley framed the plea as a direct answer to those who questioned his work: "Well, numbers don't lie, and…Open
A federal judge sentenced Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada to life in prison for co-founding the Sinaloa cartel and flooding American communities with cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine for nearly four decades. U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan imposed the mandatory life sentence Monday in a Brooklyn courtroom, also ordering Zambada to forfeit $15 billion in drug-trafficking profits, […] The post Sinaloa cartel co-founder 'El Mayo' Zambada sentenced to life in federal prison, ordered to forfeit $15 billion appeared first on American Almanac .
A federal judge sentenced Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada to life in prison for co-founding the Sinaloa cartel and flooding American communities with cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine for nearly four decades. U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan imposed the mandatory life sentence Monday in a Brooklyn courtroom, also ordering Zambada to forfeit $15 billion in drug-trafficking profits, money federal prosecutors concede they have yet to locate. The 76-year-old cartel boss, dressed in tan prison garb and flanked by a Spanish-language interpreter, sat expressionless at the defense table before rising to read from a prepared statement. The sentencing caps a yearslong federal effort to dismantle the leadership of one of the world's most violent…Open
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, a major Mexican drug cartel, has been sentenced to life in prison in the United States.
Drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a key figure in the Sinaloa Cartel, has been sentenced to life in prison by a United States federal court amid the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown on international drug trafficking . PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, a major Mexican drug cartel, has been sentenced to life in prison in the United States. DETAIL: On Monday, in Brooklyn federal court, United States District Judge Brian Cogan sentenced Zambada to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to charges spanning racketeering conspiracy, drug trafficking, and decades of cartel leadership. Zambada pleaded guilty last year as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty. The…Open
Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Amir said that over the course of three decades, Zambada employed torture and murder, including the killing of his own nephew, to flood the U.S. with cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Ismael Zambada García, better known as El Mayo, used an army of hit men and widespread political corruption to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States.