MEXICO CITY: Armed men entered through a window to ambush Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the most elusive of the Sinaloa cartel’s leaders, who was then loaded onto a plane, drugged and spirited across the border to the United States, according to details revealed Monday in the plea hearing of the drug trafficker who abducted him.Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the 39-year-old son of former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking and continuing criminal enterprise in federal court in Chicago after admitting his role in overseeing the transport of tens

Joaquín Guzmán López's guilty plea comes after US prosecutors pledged last May to not pursue the death penalty against him.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of Mexican drug kingpin "El Chapo," pleaded guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges after his brother entered a plea deal in July.