MEXICO CITY, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Mexico is now investigating two drug lords arrested in the United States last month for their involvement in a slew of alleged crimes committed in their home country in order to get them stateside, federal authorities said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. authorities captured Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of Zambada’s former partner Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a stunning arrest late last month<\/u><\/a> near El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two have given differing accounts of how they ended up on a plane bound for the small-town airstrip, with Zambada saying on Saturday he was tricked<\/u><\/a> by El Chapo’s son and ambushed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guzman, who is about 38 years old, meanwhile, has denied taking Zambada by force<\/u><\/a> and called the handover a voluntary surrender after extended negotiations between the two drug traffickers and the U.S. government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mexico’s federal attorney general’s office said in a statement on Sunday that the crimes committed along the way could include murder, kidnapping and unlawful detainment of a person, illicit use of a flight, illicit use of aerospace facilities as well as immigration and customs violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mexican authorities did not directly charge Zambada and Guzman on Sunday, but rather said the alleged crimes were part of the investigation the two were involved in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n