Hollywood actor Sean Penn meet helped capture drug warlord
Mexican authorities announced they will begin the process of extraditing drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman to the United States, as his lawyer vowed a tough legal battle. Meanwhile, reports have emerged saying Oscar award -winning actor Sean Penn’s meeting with Guzman helped authorities recapture the drug kingpin who had escaped from jail in July last in filmy-style.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-01-10 14:48 GMT
Cludad Juarez
President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government had balked at extraditing Guzman prior to his prison break in July but the administration has changed tack after recapturing him on Friday. The attorney general’s office said it received two US extradition requests last year on a slew of charges, including drug trafficking and murder, and that it later obtained arrest warrants to ship him across the border.
“With Guzman Loera’s recapture, the respective extradition proceedings will have to start,” the office said in a statement, though it did not indicate when the hearings would start. Lawyers for Guzman will have three days to file objections and 20 more days to prove them, though that timeframe can be extended, prosecutors said, vowing to fight any appeals. Once a judge rules on the extradition, the decision is sent to the foreign ministry, which will have 20 days to validate it.
The Great Escape
- Guzman, a drug lord feared by many for his vicious method of killing off enemies and rivals.
- History of arrests and escape from custody.
- Retaken in February 2014, 13 years after he escaped from prison in a laundry basket, and flown to the Altiplano maximum-security prison.
- July 2014, Guzman slipped through a hole in his cell’s shower, climbed on a motorcycle mounted on rails, and travelled 1.5 kilometers (one mile) through a tunnel to freedom.
- Meets Hollywood actor Sean Penn for a biopic. Authorities traced his hide-out through those meetings, recaptured Gomez in Los Mochis.
- Gunfire from hide-out wounds one marine, five others in recapture bid.
- Guzman fled though the city's drainage system, like he did in 2014. This time marines were better prepared for such a move.
- Guzman, when caught in a motel, was seated on a bed, wearing a dirty sleeveless shirt, an ignominious end for a kingpin whose billionaire drug business reaches as far as Asia and Europe.
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