El Chapo Escape

Video Shows Calif. Prisoners Offering Protection, Escape Help To 'el Chapo

... institution in Taft is the only facility operated by a private corporation. The low- to minimum-security facility in Kern County has 2,175 federal inmates. The men promised to help Guzman escape, saying: “We want to tell the people this: If you bring ‘el senor’ here and if ‘el senor’ asks us to free him, we are going to take him out immediately.”. The video began circulating online after Guzman was extradited from Mexico to New York on Jan. 19 to face drug trafficking, murder, money laundering and other charges in six separate indictments. Guzman, who lead one of the world’s most powerful drug trafficking organizations, was responsible for funneling cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and into the United States. Among the indictments, the Sinaloa cartel leader faces charges of conspiracy to import and ...

El Chapo Seeks Approval To Show Up In Person For Court

... had a right to understand how the case would unfold and see the judge handling his case, wrote Michael Schneider and Michelle Gelernt of the Federal Defenders of New York. This was especially necessary, given “the unusual nature of the extradition process,” they said. While in Mexico, Guzman, 62, had been fighting the legality of extradition requests. El Chapo's extradition marks 16 th anniversary of first escape. When he was put on a United States bound plane, Schneider and Gelernt said his lawyer in Mexico was waiting to meet with him, unaware of his client’s sudden departure. “Guzman’s presence in court is necessary to ensure his faith in the fundamental fairness of the American judicial process,” they wrote. Cogan gave prosecutors a Wednesday deadline to answer the defense objections. The judge also asked for both sides to submit a list of the topics they intend to discuss at the court date. Chapo leaves Kingpins County Brooklyn for new home in Manhattan. Prosecutors are pressing for a $14 billion forfeiture from Guzman. In court papers filed last week, they anticipated Guzman would hire his own lawyer. ...

Lags In Us Jail Pledge Loyalty To 'el Chapo' After His Extradition To America

... video. Get daily updates directly to your inbox. + Subscribe. Thank you for subscribing. Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email. A gang of prisoners swear allegiance to 'El Chapo' at a US jail following the Mexican drug lord's extradition to America. The motley crew of lags, speaking in Spanish, pledge to supply the notorious cartel boss, real name Joaquin Guzman, with women, drugs and mobile phones during his stay in prison. One inmate, known as 'El Chaky', boasts in the video posted on You Tube that the infamous Mexican mob chief will have 3,500 'soldiers' at his service behind bars. Referring to pint-sized El Chapo as 'sir', he crows: "The guards have been bought, the warden has been bought, and what you say is the law. The lags claim they have 'bought' the jail's guards and ...

Netflix, Univision Series 'el Chapo' Sets April Premier

... when it was discovered that he dug a mile long tunnel under his cell. Today, El Chapo is facing 17 drug trafficking and money laundering counts thanks to more than $14 billion in drug sales in the U. S. and Canada. Univision President and Chief Content Officer Camila Jiménez Villa said the series would “pull back the curtain on one of the most captivating criminals of our time by combining the world-class reporting and insights from Univision News’ investigative team with an outstanding team of talented storytellers and producers.”. The series has been in the works for almost a year , and was a part of an out of the ordinary deal between the two media companies. Netflix agreed to work with Univision to promote their service in Hispanic homes by showing the first seasons of the Netflix series Narcos and Club de Cuervos on Univision. The History Channel has also announced ...

Why A High-profile Hollywood Director Turned Down A Project About The Sinaloa Kingpin

... by the characters such a movie would involve. "I got out of the El Chapo business," Berg told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview earlier this month. According to Berg, his Los Angeles boxing gym, Wild Card West, put him in contact with some of Guzmán's associates after the kingpin's jailbreak in July 2015. "At the boxing gym, we have a lot of Hispanic fighters from Mexico. Two days after [El Chapo's] escape, two of my fighters came in and asked if they could talk to me, and then told me that El Chapo wanted to meet with me. That's when I realized, Hollywood thinks it's a cool idea to make a movie.". "[But] this is a very dangerous group of individuals. And this is my gym, where I work out and train, and my child comes in. I said, 'Tell Mr. Chapo, first of all, good job on your escape. I will not be making a film. I wish him all the best.'". Among dysfunctional Hollywood projects, the "El Chapo" movie is a special case. The kingpin himself, who received movie offers while he was in prison, decided to pursue the project on his own. He reportedly played a major role in pushing the film, contacting producers while he was on the run between July 2015 and his capture ...

How Secure Is Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo's New Home

... most secure federal lockups and the new home of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Guzman, who pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he ran one of the world's biggest drug-trafficking operations, can expect to be kept in a special unit inside the drab 12-storey Metropolitan Correctional Centre, where such other high-profile, high-risk inmates as Gambino crime family boss John Gotti and several former close associates of Osama bin Laden awaited trial. "It's got extra security above and beyond what you would have in a restricted housing area," said Catherine Linaweaver, who served as the lockup's warden for 15 months before retiring in 2014. "There is no other unit in the Bureau of Prisons like the high-security unit in New York.". Federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing that "it is difficult to imagine another person with a greater risk of fleeing prosecution" than Guzman. Barricades that can stop a seven-tonne truck. The jail is sandwiched between federal prosecutors' offices and two federal courthouses and is protected by steel barricades that can stop a seven-tonne truck. Cameras capable of reading a newspaper a block away are trained ...

What Donald Trump And El Chapo Have In Common

... through a hole near his cell’s shower into a mile-long tunnel. The Donald might have to get just as creative to keep the multiple sexual assault allegations against him from ending in an impeachment. World’s Most Infamous. El Chapo was described by federal officials as “the most notorious criminal of modern time.” Officials in the Obama administration described The Donald as the “shadiest” and “most corrupt” person to ever become U. S. president, and during his campaign, Lady Gaga called Trump “the most notorious bully we’ve ever seen.”. With presidential predecessors like George W. Bush and Richard Nixon , Trump’s superlatives weren’t easy to earn. But like El Chapo, The Donald has never been shy about playing the bad guy. In fact, both men have boasted on and off the record about their many criminal exploits and the massive fleets they use to carry them out. After his 2015 escape, El Chapo bragged that he supplies “more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world.” He also claimed to have “a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats.”. After comparing the two planes, the Washington Post concluded "Trump Force One" ...

Forget El Chapo Guzman’s Escape, This Is The Most Audacious, Controversial Prison Break In The History Of Mexico

... at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, he, in 2015, made headlines when he escaped from Altiplano prison in Mexico via a mile long tunnel. The prison break was incredibly embarrassing for the Mexican government, with President Enrique Peña Nieto vowing to put El Chapo back behind bars. #Breaking : NYPD Commissioner O'Nelill holds press conference on #El Chapo 's extradition. (Pic: NYPD) __link__/j ZHSo JEhq N. — World Aggregate News (@WAGGNews) January 20, 2017. That said, another prison break in Mexico rivals El Chapo Guzman’s in sheer audacity, and it was that of Joel David Kaplan, an American businessman. He and Carlos Antonio Contreras Castro, a Venezuelan counterfeiter, undertook one of the most uncanny prison breaks in the country’s history by using a helicopter painted with colors similar to those ...