NEW YORK — Infamous Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who twice escaped from maximum-security prisons in his country, was extradited at the request of the United States to face drug trafficking and other charges and arrived in New York late Thursday.
A plane carrying Guzman landed at a suburban airport, where a caravan of SUVs waited to take him away. Guzman, the convicted leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, one of the world’s largest drug trafficking organizations, was expected to spend the night in a New York jail before his first appearance in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn on Friday, officials said.
Mexico’s Department of Foreign Relations announced Guzman was handed over to U.S. authorities for transportation to the U.S. earlier Thursday, the last full day of Democratic President Barack Obama’s administration and a day before Republican Donald Trump’s scheduled inauguration.
He was more powerful than the government.
If he could’ve limited his greed he could still be free.
He crossed the line to where he needed taken down.
Now he’ll be imprisoned in a Supermax for the rest of his life
You mean Obama didn’t pardon him?
what a punk
Good luck trying to burrow your way out of a supermax hombre!
There’s a good reason for capital punishment ….
Cut the head off the snake.
MEXICO, THE CORRUPT COUNTRY BELOW US, RUN BY THE STRONG ARM OF CARTELS, UNDER THE INDEFINITE THREAT OF BEHEADINGS AND TORTURE, WILL BE WATCHING US WITH GREAT SCRUTINY TO MAKE SURE WE TREAT THIS CRETIN HUMANELY!!
OH, THE PAINFUL IRONY!!!
If Mexico wasn’t such a cesspool of corruption, they would have demanded a trade. El Chapo For Eric Holder
Funny how he gets extradited when Trump is sworn in. MAGA
Oh, snappy dresser.
He missed a pardon by one day. I’m sure Obama would’ve had him on speed dial.
El Chapo on the Lam
The elaborate escape of Mexico’s most-wanted drug kingpin from a maximum security prison reads like a crime thriller: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán slipped through a hole in his shower cell, descended a 10m ladder where a 1,500m tunnel – equipped with ventilation and lighting – led him to a recently-built house. It was his second successful escape from maximum-security lock-up.
http://goodstuffsworld.blogspot.com/2015/07/el-chapo-on-lam.html
I wonder how the new justice department will
deal with him. This will be interesting……