New York, July 18: Mexican drug mafia Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment in American jail over the charges of drug trafficking and racketeering crimes for a quarter-century.
Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-head of Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, was indicted in February in American government court on a spate of charges, including pirating huge amounts of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana into the United States.
The penalty covers a total amount of heroin, marijuana, and cocaine that a court jury has found El Chapo to have trafficked, further multiplied by an average cost of all those drugs, as per a court filing in Brooklyn federal court by prosecutors.
The eagerly awaited hearing in New York topped an emotional lawful adventure and saw Guzman convey what will probably be his last public words before he is taken to a supermax government jail to experience his days.
El Chapo, wearing lilac shirt, gray suit, and purple tie said, “There was no justice here,” according to Dawn news reports.
Guzman made himself popular in the 1980s through constructing cross-border tunnels that permitted him to flow cocaine market underground into the US from Mexico more faster than anyone else could have done.
He has spent most of his life and career on this run, moving from one hideout place in the ranges of Sinaloa to another hideout space, guarded by his private army.
He has twice escaped the high-security prison in Mexico. He was then detained in January 2016 and further extradited to America for further cour prosecution.
Despite his arrest, the Sinaloa Cartel remains the largest US distribution presence of the Mexican cartels, which was followed a fast-growing Jalisco New Generation Cartel, as the reports of the US drug enforcement administration.
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