Mexico Arrests the Highest Ranking Woman in El Chapo’s Cartel

It is possible that the drug trafficker will be tried in Brooklyn since “It’s the strongest indictment”, according to the PIX11 report.

VICE News hit the streets of Los Angeles to meet admirers of El Chapo – and some ambitious entrepreneurs – who’ve found ways to celebrate the drug lord in the form of songs, T-shirts, and tacos.

The 2014 indictment filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn states that El Chapo helped run the Sinaloa cartel along with Ismael Zambada Garcia.

Prosecutors are investigating whether the actress received cash from the Sinaloa cartel leader for a boutique tequila brand she represents or for a biopic of Guzman.

The papers also revealed that most of the drugs trafficked by the organization were imported into the United States. Authorities also believe that Guzman’s cartel may be the largest supplier of cocaine to the New York City area for years.

A superseding Brooklyn indictment brought in 2014 said the Sinaloa cartel distributed about half a million kilos of cocaine into the United States between 2002 and 2014 through “a network of corrupt police and political contacts”.

It talked of “sicarios”, or hitmen, who carried out hundreds of acts of violence, “including murders, assaults, kidnappings, assassinations and acts of torture”.

Even given those assumptions, USA prosecution of El Chapo makes little sense.

“But I would assume that if Chapo is extradited to the United States, that wherever the DOJ decides he would land, the districts would share their evidence”, Porter said. “Here you have an individual who has escaped from prison twice so certainly the Bureau of Prisons would put him in a maximum security and probably supermax is where he might go”.

According to legal experts, the appeals process available to El Chapo means that the move could take a year or more to pull off. This was after El Chapo expressed his desire to film a biopic.

El Chapo has said that, if extradited, he would plead guilty to all crimes he is being accused of in the United States on the condition that he not be sent to a high-security jail.

While he was on the lam, the elusive kingpin met with actor Sean Penn in an interview for Rolling Stone magazine.