Dec 20, 2015 · Just weeks before Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman sneaked out of a maximum security prison in Mexico, the U.S. government had requested formally that the drug kingpin be sent to the United States to ...
Jul 13, 2015 · A Drug Lord's Infuriating, Inevitable Escape. ... Mexican authorities initially captured El Chapo in Guatemala in 1993—only to see him escape from prison through a …
Jul 14, 2015 · How to escape jail if you're a drug lord: hide in the laundry basket, dress in drag or sneak out during church.
Marc Fernich, Mr. Guzmán's lawyer, said Monday during oral arguments before a panel of three judges of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the media articles could have colored jurors' impression of his client.Oct 25, 2021
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joaquin Guzman, the convicted Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, has escaped twice from maximum-security prisons in Mexico, once by digging a mile-long tunnel from his cell. If U.S. authorities have their way, a third escape for Guzman will never happen.Jul 17, 2019
As of 2021, the Sinaloa Cartel remains Mexico's most dominant drug cartel. After the arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the cartel is now headed by Ismael Zambada García (aka El Mayo) and Guzmán's sons, Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, Ovidio Guzmán López and Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar.
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Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, pictured in 2016, is currently serving a life sentence in a Colorado prison. Aside from helping him escape from prison, Ms.Nov 30, 2021
"The operation continues: the men are deployed; their structures will be neutralized," Molano said. But trafficking is likely to continue apace, analysts said. Colombia's potential cocaine output rose 8% last year to 1,228 tonnes, according to United Nations figures, the largest in the world.Oct 25, 2021
Joaquín Guzmán LoeraThe most-wanted of the 37 drug lords was Joaquín Guzmán Loera, for whom Mexican and U.S. governments offered a total bounty of US$7 million. He was captured on 22 February 2014 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, where he was staying at a hotel.
Colombia has announced that the country's most wanted drug trafficker will be extradited to the US after he was captured in a raid. Dairo Antonio Úsuga, known as Otoniel, was seized after a joint army, air force and police operation on Saturday.Oct 25, 2021
Policemen guard the site where a tunnel, connected to the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary and used by drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to escape, was located in Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City, July 12, 2015. ( Tomas Bravo / Reuters) July 12, 2015.
For Guzman—known as “El Chapo” because of his short stature—the escape adds another chapter to an almost mythical life. Born and raised in rural poverty, the 58-year-old rose to become ...
Despite his complicity in untold death and misery, the escape from authority had turned El Chapo into an unlikely “Robin Hood” figure, a man whose exploits were portrayed in books, film, and popular music.
As the New Yorker ’s Patrick Radden Keefe—the author of an outstanding profile of El Chapo published in 2012 — wrote on Sunday, it’s natural to hold a perverse fascination with criminal derring-do.
Pablo Escobar, the notorious Colombian drug lord once estimated to be one of the richest men on earth, surrendered to authorities in 1991. However, when the government tried to move him from his luxurious and lenient prison, La Catedral, to a more conventional prison the next year, Escobar decided to escape. Soldiers surrounded the prison, but Escobar took two-high ranking government officials and a prison warden hostage.
In 1996, Jose Santacruz-Londono, a leader at what was then the largest drug gang in the world, the Cali drug cartel, escaped from prison in Bogota, Colombia. Despite his high profile, Santacruz was able to escape from prison with relative ease: According to the Chicago Tribune, he "slipped out in a car that resembled one used earlier in the day by prosecutors." Prosecutors' cars were not checked by prison security staff. Santacruz was shot dead by police later that year.
In 1973, American cocaine smuggler Dwight Worker was arrested in Mexico City and sentenced to five years in prison on drug possession charges. He was locked up in the notorious Lecumberri prison, known for its harsh conditions. The only inmate to ever escape its confines was Mexican renegade and revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1912. And then there was Worker, who, after striking up a relationship with a woman visiting another convict in the prison, plotted an incredible way out: dressing in drag. He shaved his face, donned a wig, dressed in heels and carried forged documentation claiming he was a female guest visiting a prisoner. Worker's plan worked, and has since been the subject of books and TV shows.
Perhaps uncoincidentally, David is the sister of Dario Antonio Usuga David, a leader of the Colombian group Los Urabenos, or the Autodefensas Gaitanistas. The US Department of State is offering a $5 million reward for any information that leads to the arrest and/or conviction of Dario Antonio Usuga David.
In 1999, in a joint operation with the US Drug Enforcement Agency, Colombian authorities arrested cocaine smuggler Eder Villafane Martinez and 29 others on trafficking charges. But he managed to escape his prison near Medellin in broad daylight, the BBC reported. According to one account, the narco was spirited away in a sofa constructed within the prison. He later resurfaced among cartels in Mexico.
In 1970, Juan Ramon Matta, a Honduran smuggler with connections to Colombia's once mighty cartels, was arrested in the United States in 1970 and jailed on charges of illegal entry. In 1971, he managed to slip away from the minimum-security prison at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida by walking out the back door of the jail's chapel during church services. He went on to become a kingpin, with a whole network of businesses in Central America. When US authorities finally seized him in 1988, prosecutors said he was "perhaps the most significant narcotics trafficker in custody in the world." He's currently serving 12 life sentences at a federal prison in Pennsylvania.
After only 17 months in prison, El Chapo escaped again on the night of July 11, 2015, he disappeared after entering the shower area of the prison, where he usually carried out his personal hygiene.
He was extradited on January 20, 2017, to the United States after a legal battle of almost one year. Even though his lawyers fought the charges, that was not enough to make it illegal to send El Chapo to the United States.