Chicago drug trafficker testifies against El Chapo at trial
Identical twin brothers from Chicago made a fortune by distributing nearly 40 tons (36 metric tons) of cocaine worth $800 million for Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman before signing up as cooperators who spied on the cartel, one of the them testified Tuesday at a U.S. trial.
Pedro Flores told the jury that the brothers had face-to-face meetings with Guzman and another Sinaloa cartel leader, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, in Mexico in 2005 to begin negotiations for the cartel to use the pair’s successful drug-dealing network covering Chicago, New York, Detroit and other large cities.
“You guys have my respect,” he quoted Zambada as saying. “Imagine if you guys were triplets.”