‘El Chapo’ federal judge gunned down in front of his house in Mexico

[Contumacious]

‘El Chapo’ judge gunned down in front of his house in Mexico

The federal judge who presided over appeals from various accused drug lords — including Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — was killed with a bullet to the head outside his Mexico home Monday, authorities said.


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Of course, the scumbag was not a judge. He was a Mexican federal agent pretending to be a judge.

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Chapo fightin' extradition...

Mexico drug lord Chapo appeals extradition to US
9 Nov 2016: A lawyer for Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman filed an appeal on Tuesday (Nov 8) to block his extradition to the United States, where he faces drug and murder charges.

The lawyer, Andres Granados, dropped off the documents at a court in Mexico City, which he said will hand them over to a panel of appellate judges. Granados argued that the wrong US embassy official signed one of the extradition requests and that Guzman could face the death penalty if he is put on trial for murder in Texas. "We know it's a high-profile case, which is very complex because it has to do with Mr. Guzman," Granados told reporters after filing the appeal. "We hope that the federal government won't interfere like it did" when a lower court rejected a previous legal challenge on October 20, he said.

A "college," or panel, of judges will review the appeal but Guzman's lawyers also plan to take the case up to the Supreme Court. Guzman is facing two extradition bids, one in California for drug distribution and another in Texas on charges that include murder and money laundering.

When the foreign ministry approved the extradition in May, it said the US government had given "enough guarantees that the death penalty will not be applied." Guzman's extradition would set up a major trial in the United States for the head of a cartel accused of providing tons of drugs to addicts in the United States while fueling violence in Mexico.

Guzman was captured in February 2014 after 13 years on the lam, but he escaped a year later from a maximum-security prison near Mexico City, humiliating President Enrique Pena Nieto. After the slippery drug kingpin was recaptured in January in his northwestern home state of Sinaloa, Pena Nieto demanded his speedy extradition.

Mexico drug lord Chapo appeals extradition to US

 

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Son of "El Papacho," facing homicide, kidnapping, robbery charges...

Son of 'El Chapo' henchman facing homicide, kidnapping, robbery charges
Nov. 29, 2016 -- Mexico's Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office said the son of "El Papacho," a convicted leader of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel, has been charged with kidnapping, homicide and robbery.

Mauricio L.A. -- son of Mauricio Luna Aguilar -- and several others are accused of kidnapping three people who were "taken aboard a stolen vehicle and then deprived of their lives and had their bodies disposed near the town of San Agustín" on Dec. 6, 2014, the Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office said in a statement on Friday. Mauricio L.A., 26, was not identified by his full name as per procedure by the Mexican judicial system, but Mexican news outlets reported his identity as Mauricio "El Mauri" Aguilar after he was arrested earlier this month.

He was arrested along with a woman, identified as Genoveva C. Police seized a grenade and a bag of marijuana. "It is worth mentioning that the accused and his father made calls to the relatives of the victims and asked them for $2,000 to give them information on where they were," the attorney general's office said, adding that the money was delivered three days after the kidnapping.

The bodies were found days after the ransom money was delivered. Mauricio L.A. will be held in preventive custody. A judge ruled the investigation against him must conclude within four months. Mauricio Luna Aguilar is serving a life imprisonment sentence.

Son of 'El Chapo' henchman facing homicide, kidnapping, robbery charges

 

[owebo]

He will not like POTUS Trump.....

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - now he knows what it's like fer all dem womens he trafficked...

Lawyer: 'El Chapo' says he's being sexually harassed in prison
Jan. 17, 2017 -- A lawyer for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, said Guzman is being sexually harassed in prison by a guard.

Silvia Delgado said her client is undergoing harassment during daily checks and pat-down screenings, El Nacional reported. "He tells me that there is an officer of those who are in charge of his custody -- he told me: 'This official does not touch me to check me, he paws me," Delgado said. "It is a discomfort generated in him."

Delgado did not reveal the identity of the official. She said the way her client is being handled is "embarrassing" -- adding that Guzman said the incidents are "more than abuse -- they are handling me." José Refugio Rodríguez, who leads Guzman's defense team, told Telemundo that Guzman has not revealed those details to him. "I can not discredit Silva because Joaquin is not obligated to tell me all the details of the talks with Silvia," Rodríguez said. "[Guzman] said the checks were exhausting, they were revised and that his body was exposed to the guards. With me, he did not complain about a sexual touch."

Guzman and his defense team have repeatedly said the drug kingpin has undergone maltreatment while under the supervision of Mexican officials. Allegations have gone so far that Guzman has said he is becoming a "zombie" due to lack of sleep, while his lawyers accuse prison authorities of subjecting his client to "physical and mental torture." Guzman was captured in the city of Los Mochis in his home state of Sinaloa on Jan. 8, 2016, after escaping from Mexico's Altiplano Federal Prison on July 11, 2015. Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel is credited with dominating the illegal drug market in nearly the entire United States.

Lawyer: 'El Chapo' says he's being sexually harassed in prison

 

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El Chapo extradited to the U.S....

Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman is extradited to US
Jan 19,`17 -- Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most notorious cartel kingpin who twice made brazen prison escapes and spent years on the run as the country's most wanted man, was extradited to the U.S. Thursday to face drug trafficking and other charges.

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department announced Guzman was handed over to U.S. authorities for transportation to the U.S. on Thursday, the last full day of President Barack Obama's administration and a day before Donald Trump is to be inaugurated. The U.S. Justice Department issued a statement confirming that Guzman was en route to the United States and expressed gratitude to Mexico for its cooperation. A senior U.S. official said the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration took custody of Guzman in Ciudad Juarez, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas, and a plane carrying him departed for New York at 5:31 p.m. EST. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and agreed to give the information only if not quoted by name.

The convicted boss of the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world's largest drug trafficking organizations, had been held most recently at a prison near Ciudad Juarez. He was recaptured a year ago after escaping from a second maximum-security prison through a tunnel dug to his cell. The 2015 escape was highly embarrassing for the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto, and Mexican officials were seen as eager to hand the headache off to the United States afterward. Guzman's lawyers have fought extradition since his recapture. "It was illegal. They didn't even notify us," said lawyer Andres Granados, who accused the government of extraditing his client to distract from nationwide gasoline protests. "They handled it politically to obscure the situation of the gas price hike. It's totally political."

A handcuffed Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is made to face the press as he is escorted to a helicopter by Mexican soldiers and marines at a federal hangar in Mexico City. According to Mexico's Foreign Ministry, Guzman has been extradited to the United States on Thursday, Jan. 19 2017.​

Guzman, who is in his late 50s, faces the possibility of life in a U.S. prison under multiple indictments in six jurisdictions around the United States, including New York, San Diego, Chicago and Miami. A federal indictment in the Eastern District of New York, where Guzman is expected to be prosecuted, accuses him of overseeing a trafficking cartel with thousands of members and billions of dollars in profits laundered back to Mexico. It says Guzman and other members of the Sinaloa cartel employed hit men who carried out murders, kidnappings and acts of torture. He was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in July 2009. A superseding indictment was issued in May charging him and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada with a variety of drug, gun and money laundering charges as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.

The Mexican Foreign Relations Department's statement said a court had ruled against Guzman's appeal and found that his extradition would be constitutional. "The criminal Joaquin Guzman Loera was extradited this afternoon to face his pending legal cases," Mexican Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong tweeted. Guzman's first prison break was in 2001. He spent more than a decade at large before being captured in 2014, becoming something of a folk legend for a segment of Mexico's population for his defiance of authorities. He was immortalized in ballads known as "narco-corridos." The following year he broke out through the mile-long tunnel dug directly to the shower in his cell.

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[Dschrute3]

End the 'War on Drugs' and secure our Border. This awful stuff will end. I don't want this man in my country. Return him to Mexico immediately. Let them do what they will with him.

 

[my2¢]

Obama just had to get one final Mexican across the border.