Mexican drug boss 'Chapo' moved to jail on U.S. border

[Judi Lynn]

Source: A.P.A. (Azerbaijan Press Agency)

Mexican drug boss 'Chapo' moved to jail on U.S. border
08 May 2016 / 06:21

Baku-APA. Mexican drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was moved on Saturday from a jail in central Mexico to a prison in Ciudad Juarez, a northern city on the U.S. border, in a move that appears to bring him closer to extradition to the United States, APA reports quoting Reuters.

Guzman, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was one of the world's most wanted drug kingpins until his capture in January, six months after he broke out of a high-security penitentiary in central Mexico through a mile-long tunnel.

Chapo, or "Shorty," faces charges ranging from money laundering to drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder in cities that include Chicago, Miami and both Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York.

His lawyer, Juan Pablo Badillo, said Guzman was moved early on Saturday, but he was not sure why.
"It's an absurd action, illogical," said Badillo. "The authorities shouldn't do this. It was totally unexpected."





Read more: http://en.apa.az/-_243317.html

[truebluegreen]

1. "Unexpected" is good,

if they want to keep him in custody.

[GOLGO 13]

2. So they're going to "shove" him over the border?

Hilarious

[Eugene]

3. New Prison for Drug Boss 'El Chapo' Seen as Less Secure

Source: Associated Press

New Prison for Drug Boss 'El Chapo' Seen as Less Secure

By PETER ORSI AND E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY — May 8, 2016, 9:26 PM ET

Questions arose on both sides of the border about the decision to relocate convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to a region that is one of his cartel's strongholds, and a Mexican security official acknowledged Sunday that the sudden transfer was to a less-secure prison.

The official said that in general the Cefereso No. 9 prison on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, is not as impregnable as the maximum-security Altiplano facility near Mexico City where he had been held. The official wasn't authorized to discuss Guzman's case publicly and agreed to do so only if not quoted by name.

The official said, however, that Guzman is being held in a maximum-security wing where the same protocols are being enforced as in Altiplano, including 24-hour monitoring via a camera in his cell.

But Michael Vigil, the former head of international operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, wondered at the logic of sending Guzman to a lesser lockup in territory firmly controlled by his Sinaloa cartel underlings.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/drug-boss-el-chapos-prison-rated-mexicos-worst-38966353

[waddirum]

4. If he get's extradited to the U.S.

I would bet that the case goes to the U.S. Attorney's office in the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago).

[sofa king]

5. Or maybe it's el Chapo's plan.

El Chapo knows a thing or two about tunnels, and Juarez and El Paso have more than a couple running between them. Perhaps he's looking to escape into the United States, to escape extradition to the United States.

Someone call Alanis Morissette!