Overview

• A federal judge has scheduled a change-of-plea hearing for August 25 in Brooklyn where Zambada is expected to plead guilty
• Prosecutors informed the court that Attorney General Pam Bondi directed them not to pursue capital punishment
• The indictment alleges Zambada led a violent network of sicarios and oversaw cocaine, heroin and other narcotics trafficking into the U.S.
• Zambada, 77, had entered a not-guilty plea last year on charges including drug trafficking, firearms offenses and money laundering
• Related cases proceed elsewhere, with Joaquín Guzmán López pleading not guilty in Chicago and Ovidio Guzmán López having pleaded guilty last month