Vicente Zambada is no longer in federal prison

• Vicente Zambada Niebla «El Vicentillo», who testified against Joaquín «El Chapo» Guzmán Loera is no longer in federal prison
• Authorities did not specify when he was released and what his legal status is
• He was sentenced in federal court in Chicago to 15 years in prison in May 2019.

The Mexican Vicente Zambada Niebla «El Vicentillo», who testified in the trial for drug trafficking against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, ex-partner of his father Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García in the Sinaloa Cártel, is no longer in the custody (prison) of the United States Department of Prisons (BOP), according to Univision, EFE, AP and Televisa News.

«Vicente Zambada Niebla and Jesús Zambada García (his uncle) are not in the custody of the Department of Prisons,» said Emery Nelson, spokesman for the BOP to the Univision network, who wanted to know about the fate of the drug traffickers.

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Nelson did not specify when he was released and what is the legal status of Vicente Zambada Niebla, arrested in Mexico in 2009 and who was his father’s right arm, or where the son of “Mayo” Zambada is located.

«The BOP does not provide additional information on inmates who are not in their custody or who have been released from their custody,» the spokeswoman also told the Hispanic network, as part of the case that is being carried out by organized crime.

WHY WAS I IN JAIL?

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Vicente Zambada Niebla, known as “El Vicentillo,” who is no longer in custody was sentenced in federal court in Chicago to 15 years in prison in May 2019, a punishment that was reduced as a result of his cooperation with US authorities, Univision recalled.

He also indicated that it was speculated at that time that when he was released around the year 2022 he would become a protected witness. So far it is not known where he is or under what legal conditions the son of Imsael Zambada will continue.

CALLAN

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However, he added, the Federal Marshals Service, which protects those who change their identity after testifying against drug lords, terrorists, mobsters or gang bosses, did not provide information on the case of Vicente Zamaba who is no longer in federal prison or under custody.

“The Marshals Service does not confirm or deny any information about anyone who may or may not participate in the Witness Safety Program. We also do not provide details on the movements of prisoners, ”his spokesman James P. Stossel said in a statement to Univision.

UNKNOWN

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The agency also did not confirm whether Jesús “El Rey” Zambada (Vicente’s uncle), Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez and Jorge Milton Cifuentes are under its protection. All of them testified in the trial of Joaquín Guzmán, which contributed to the fact that in the summer of 2019 “El Chapo” was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In January 2019, Zambada Niebla sat in the witness chair and told what he has known very well since he was a child about the structure and details of the criminal organization’s businesses that his father Ismael, one of the most wanted by the Administration Drug Control (DEA), and Guzmán Loera founded.

CONTACTS

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Vicente Zambada Niebla, who is no longer in prison, testified that “El Chapo” Guzmán, with whom he worked, had contacts in the DEA and that he used them to help him get out of the Sinaloa cartel. Guzmán, one of the best-known drug traffickers out there and a former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was sentenced to life in prison.

The case of Vicente Zambada Niebla, who are no longer in custody, in the electronic system of the US federal courts does not show information about his release from prison. His attorney, who was contacted by the AP, did not immediately speak to the news agency.

DECLARES GUILTY

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On the other hand, another son of “El Mayo”, Ismael Zambada-Imperial, known as “Mayito Gordo”, pleaded guilty on Friday to drug trafficking in a court in San Diego, California. He will be sentenced by a judge in one year.

During the trial of «El Chapo» in New York, Zambada Niebla testified that he had two telephone conversations, monitored by the US government, with his father «El Mayo» while Zambada Niebla was imprisoned in the United States.

BACKGROUND

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Both calls occurred in 2012 and, according to Vicente Zambada Niebla, who is no longer in prison, they were trivial conversations in which he said things like «Dad, how are you» and «I love you very much» but in which he also asked for help to find out data on other traffickers that could be turned over to the DEA.

A lawyer for «El Chapo» said during the trial that shortly after Zambada Niebla’s calls with «El Mayo», Guzmán was arrested, but «El Mayo» was not, thus suggesting that «El Mayo» gave the US authorities information on the location of “El Chapo”.

INHUMAN CONDITIONS

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Currently, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loerea and his wife are held in prisons in the United States. Emma Coronel spends her time reading in a cell where she is locked up for about 22 hours a day, her lawyer said.

Recently, the Mexican drug trafficker denounced alleged «inhumane conditions» in the high security prison where he is located. So with this it can be deduced that the couple does not have a good time in their cells.

Vicente Zambada prison: CONDITIONS DO NOT IMPROVE

Since April 19, lawyer Mariel Colón, who is part of Coronel’s defense team, told The Associated Press that she has asked for better confinement conditions for her client since the prison employees only remove Coronel from the cell. in the early morning to go to an «inside room» of the detention center in Alexandria, in the state of Virginia. He only spends a couple of hours in that little room, Colón added.

«Their confinement conditions have not improved yet,» said the lawyer. «She is locked up almost all day.» Coronel, 31, was arrested in February at Dulles International Airport, just outside of Washington DC. The wife of «El Chapo», who is a US and Mexican citizen, is accused of participating in an illicit association to traffic cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin and marijuana.

Vicente Zambada prison: ACCUSED

The United States also accuses her of having joined others to help Guzmán escape from the Altiplano prison in Almoloya de Juárez, Mexico, in July 2015. Coronel does not share a cell with other inmates, said Colón, who did not answer questions about if she talks often on the phone with the two twin daughters she has with Guzmán.

“She only leaves her cell when they take her out to the interior living room. But nothing. Unfortunately, they do not offer, there are no activities available so that they can be distracted, ”said Colón. «The only thing he can do while in his cell is read.»

Vicente Zambada prison: LOVE STORY

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Coronel and Guzmán married in 2007 when she was 18 and he was 50 and one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world. Coronel attended Guzmán’s long trial each day in Brooklyn, New York, in late 2018 and early 2019, during which he was the focus of the cameras every time he entered and left the building. «El Chapo» was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Colón added that he did not remember the title of the book that Coronel is reading.In Mexico, Guzmán became a legend after escaping twice from prison, which gave him an image of invincible before the authorities. In 2017, however, he was extradited to the United States.

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