El Chapo: Feds Offer $5 Million Reward For Cartel Boss

The head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said he believed Guzman was still in Mexico.

On Wednesday, the US State Department announced a $5 million (4.6-million-euro) reward for information leading to the recapture of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman of Mexico.

The tip line will be manned by DEA agents in San Diego. “We have sources in Mexico with whom we work closely”. “His escape poses a danger to the safety and security of both our countries”.

History provided by DEA Public Affairs.

Guzman has twice been captured and twice escaped.

“I think he is still in Mexico”, Rosenberg said in a meeting with reporters. While on the run from Mexican authorities, Guzman-Loerare-established himself as the top ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel and leader of the Mexican drug trade, becoming the world’s #1 fugitive and a Forbes-listed billionaire.

He was rearrested in 2014 in a Mazatlan hotel and sent back to prison to finish out his sentence.

Guzman broke out of a maximum security prison last month, escaping in a tunnel built right under his cell.

Guzman faces federal fees in a number of courts across the nation, together with Chicago, the place he was indicted in 2009 in a sweeping investigation that additionally focused his instant Sinaloa cartel underbosses, the chief of a rival cartel and dozens of drug wholesalers and middlemen from Chicago to Mexico. They are also involved in the manufacture, transport and distribution of methamphetamine and heroin. The organization also operates multiple large-scale marijuana plantations.

Joaquin Guzman is wanted by the United States for cocaine trafficking and money laundering, among other crimes. A request for his extradition was made two weeks before his escape, but has since been suspended by Mexican authorities.