[71][72] On 9 and 10 December 1992, four alleged associates of Félix Gallardo were killed. Click here to upload yours, Teenage girl, 16, fighting for life after being knifed in double stabbing, Line Of Duty's top 'H' suspects — from Ted Hastings to Jo Davidson, Michael Barrymore quizzed again over Stuart Lubbock’s death in his pool, Driver charged with murder after 'he ran over & killed' dad in M&S car park, ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. [178] In addition, it alleged that he oversaw a drug-trafficking empire that transported multi-ton shipments of narcotics from South America, through Central America and Mexico, and then to the U.S., and that his network was facilitated by corrupt law enforcement and public officials. [271], In November 2007, Guzmán married an 18-year-old American beauty queen, Emma Coronel Aispuro,[272] the daughter of one of his top deputies, Inés Coronel Barreras, in Canelas, Durango. [187] In a press conference the following day, Murillo Karam said that he was expecting a request from Washington, but said that they would not extradite him until he faces charges and completes his sentences in Mexico. [82][83] He was extradited to Mexico two days later aboard a military airplane,[78][84][85] where he was immediately taken to the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. [225] The raid on the ranch was met with heavy gunfire and Guzmán was able to flee. But has his brutal reign finally come to an end? [79] Pictures of Guzmán's face, previously unknown to the public, started to appear in newspapers and television across Mexico. [1][179], On 11 November 2014, a federal court in Sinaloa granted Guzmán an injunction for weaponry charges after the judge determined that the arrest was not carried out the way the Mexican Navy reported it. He is considered to have been the most powerful drug trafficker in the world. When the Mexican authorities arrived at the location, they quickly subdued Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez, one of Guzmán's bodyguards, before quietly making their way to the fourth floor by the elevators and stairs. He helped Salazar map routes to move drugs through Sinaloa and into the United States. [207] In a press conference, Peña Nieto said he was shocked by Guzmán's escape, and promised that the government would carry out an intensive investigation to see if officials had collaborated in the prison break. [278] He was sentenced to five years in a federal prison but released in April 2008, after a Mexican federal judge, Jesús Guadalupe Luna, ruled that there was no proof his cash came from drugs other than that he was a drug lord's son. However, the Beltrán Leyva brothers were involved in some double-dealing of their own. [97] To assist his drug trafficking, the Sinaloa Cartel also built a shipping and transport empire. [87][103], Since his 2001 escape from prison, Guzmán had wanted to control the Ciudad Juárez crossing points, which were in the hands of the Carrillo Fuentes family of the Juárez Cartel. Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (La Tuna, Sinaloa; 4 de abril de 1957 [4] ), más conocido como «El Chapo» Guzmán, [5] es un narcotraficante y criminal mexicano, líder del Cártel de Sinaloa hasta su extradición a Estados Unidos en 2017. He endured physical abuse at the hands of his father, and also entered the drug trade through his father, helping him grow marijuana for local dealers during his early adulthood. [169] The court had until 9 April 2014 to issue a formal declaration of the injunction's rejection, and Guzmán's lawyers could appeal the court's decision in the meantime. [14], Guzmán was first captured in 1993 in Guatemala and was extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking. [87] Camberos is in prison for his assistance in the escape. [74][78], The night the cardinal was killed, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari flew to Guadalajara and condemned the attack, stating it was "a criminal act" that targeted innocent civilians, but he did not give any indications of the involvement of organized crime. In the years between his escape and capture, he was Mexico's most-wanted man. Critics stated that Guzmán's escape highlighted the high levels of corruption within the government, and questioned the government's ability to combat the country's organized crime groups. 1, area #20, Hallway #1, on the same day of his capture on 22 February 2014. As Francisco Javier was at the Guadalajara International Airport booking his flight to Tijuana, informant tips notified him that Guzmán was at the airport parking lot awaiting a flight to Puerto Vallarta. [133][134] Mexican and U.S. federal agents had leads that the drug lord had been at that location for at least two days, and that he was staying on the condominium's fourth floor, in Room 401. [87] The Beltrán Leyva organization allied with the Gulf Cartel and its hit squad Los Zetas against Sinaloa.[112]. [242], Coronel and Guzmán have two young daughters. [90] The arrests were speculated by some to have been part of a deal Guzmán struck with Calderón and the DEA, in which he intentionally gave up some of his purported Sinaloa colleagues to U.S. agents in exchange for immunity from prosecution, while perpetuating the idea that the Calderón government was heavily pursuing his organization during the cartel crackdown. [176] According to the court documents, both of them conspired to kill Mexican law enforcement officers, government officials, and members of the Mexican Armed Forces. [12][15][115] Despite the progress made in arresting others in the aftermath of Guzmán's escape, including a handful of his foremost logistics and security men, the huge military and federal police manhunt failed to capture Guzmán for years. The 28-year-old has since been released, after his arrest triggered an all-out cartel war. Fearing his capture, Guzmán fled to Tonalá, Jalisco, where he reportedly owned a ranch. 2 (also known as "Puente Grande") in Jalisco, after being convicted of three crimes: possession of firearms, drug trafficking and the murder of Cardinal Ocampo (the charge would later be dismissed by another judge). 7. Unlike the other inmates, Guzmán was prohibited from practicing sport or cultural activities. Those around him learned that cheating him or going with other competitors—even if they offered better prices—was unwise. [239] Loretta Lynch, United States Attorney General, praised Mexican authorities "who have worked tirelessly in recent months to bring Guzmán to justice". Several members of his family, including his brother, one of his sons, and a nephew were killed by Sinaloa's archrival cartels, Los Zetas and the Beltrán Leyva Organization.[89]. Join Facebook to connect with Joaquin Guzman Lopez and others you may know. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. His date of birth used to be a point of contention prior to 2019, when his lover Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López testified in court and confirmed Guzmán's date of birth. An indictment issued in the state of Arizona alleged that Guzmán had coordinated the shipment of 2,000 kg (4,400 lb) of marijuana and about 4,700 kg (10,400 lb) of cocaine from 19 October 1987 to 18 May 1990, and had received roughly US$1.5 million in drug proceeds that were shipped back to his home state. The leaders of the Guadalajara Cartel liked Guzmán's business acumen, and in the early 1980s introduced him to Félix Gallardo, one of the major drug lords in Mexico at that time. [150] The Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina congratulated the Mexican government for the arrest. Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera was known by multiple nicknames, but his most famous was "El Chapo" meaning "shorty" in English. [202] By the afternoon, a total of 31 people had been called in for questioning. [101], While still in prison in Mexico, Guzmán was indicted in San Diego on U.S. charges of money laundering and importing tons of cocaine into California, along with his Sinaloa attorney Humberto Loya-Castro, or Licenciado Perez ("Lawyer Perez"), who was charged with bribing Mexican officials on Sinaloa's behalf and making sure that any cartel members arrested were released from custody. An attempt on the life of cartel head Zambada's son Vicente Zambada Niebla (El Vincentillo) was made only hours after the declaration. [127], On 22 February 2014, at around 6:40 AM,[128] Mexican authorities arrested Guzmán at a hotel in a beachfront area in Mazatlán, following an operation by the Mexican Navy, with joint intelligence from the DEA and the U.S. [199] The search was then extended to other federal entities: Mexico City, the State of Mexico, Morelos, Puebla, Guerrero, Michoacán, Querétaro, Hidalgo and Tlaxcala. After El Mochomo's arrest, authorities said he was in charge of two hit squads, money laundering, transporting drugs and bribing officials. [151] Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla congratulated the Mexican government through Twitter for the capture too. [197] According to Mexico's National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido García, the manhunt was instituted immediately in the surrounding area by putting up several checkpoints and air searches by helicopter. [279] Luna and another judge were later suspended on suspicion of unspecified irregularities in their decisions, including Luna's decision to release "El Chapito". Visualizza i profili delle persone di nome Joaquin Guzman Lopez. Interpol and other security organizations were alerted to the possibility of him escaping into another country. Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera arrested by Mexican Marines in 2014. [60] In 1989, Guzmán sent Armando López (alias "El Rayo"), one of his most trusted men, to speak with the Arellano Félix clan in Tijuana. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. [91], Guzmán's Sinaloa Cartel, at the time of his arrest, was the wealthiest and most powerful of Mexico's drug cartels. [87], Until this point, the Sinaloa Cartel had been a joint venture between Guzmán and Ismael Zambada García; the methamphetamine business would be Guzmán's alone. [109] With Alfredo in custody, his brother Arturo Beltrán Leyva took over as the brothers' top commander, but he was killed in a shootout with Mexican marines the next year. [213], A number of officials were indicted; of these, three were police officers employed within the Division of Intelligence, and another two were employed by CISEN. [87], While he was in prison, Guzmán's drug empire and cartel continued to operate unabated, run by his brother, Arturo Guzmán Loera, known as El Pollo, with Guzmán himself still considered a major international drug trafficker by Mexico and the U.S. even while he was behind bars. [27] His paternal grandparents were Juan Guzmán and Otilia Bustillos, and his maternal grandparents were Ovidio Loera Cobret and Pomposa Pérez Uriarte. According to the official report published by the Mexican Navy, citizens reported "armed people" in a house at the coastal city of Los Mochis in northern Sinaloa, which was then placed under surveillance for one month. [300][301], In 2017, Netflix and Univision began co-producing the series El Chapo about the life of Guzmán. Guzmán was allowed to receive visits from members of his family every nine days from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (if approved by a judge), and was granted by law the right to receive MXN$638 (about US$48) every month to buy products for personal hygiene. [260] U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan scheduled his trial for 5 November 2018, when jury selection began. [271] Unnamed officials said the woman was the daughter of María Alejandrina Salazar Hernández but did not appear to be a major figure in the cartel. [226][227] The two women were later revealed to be Guzmán's personal chefs, who had traveled with him to multiple safe houses. Guzmán Salazar and his mother, Guzmán's former wife María Alejandrina Salazar Hernández, were both described as key operatives in the Sinaloa Cartel and added to the U.S.'s financial sanction list under the Kingpin Act on 7 June 2012. [284] Guzmán's second wife, Griselda López Pérez, was also sanctioned by the U.S. under the Kingpin Act and described as Guzmán's wife. He also earned the nickname "El Rapido" for for how quickly he transported drugs from Mexico to America for the Colombian cartels. [32], When he was a teenager, however, his father kicked him out of the house, and he went to live with his grandfather. [15] In 2019, he was found guilty of a number of criminal charges related to his leadership of the Sinaloa Cartel,[19] and is currently serving a life sentence at ADX Florence. [87] An additional deployment of 2,000 troops to the area failed to stop the turf war.