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The Latest Breaking News from El Chapo

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: ‘No president has ever been convicted more’

The late-night host shared his thoughts on the former president’s guilty verdict in a rewritten monologue

The Guardian - US

El Chapo Guzmán Complains About Lack Of Communication In Prison

Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, notorious drug lord, faces communication challenges with family in prison, highlighting personal struggles.

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Griselda is a Netflix sensation – here are 3 more crime thriller series to watch next

If you loved Sofia Vergara's true crime drama, Griselda, then Netflix has plenty more guilty pleasures for you to stream.

TechRadar

El Chapo pal accused of running logistics for Sinaloa kingpin asks for break in 22-year sentence

Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez, 68, was one of the top Sinaloa members to be sentenced in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

El Chapo’s appeal rejected and he will remain at ‘Alcatraz of Rockies’

The former drug lord is currently serving a life sentence in Colorado

The Independent UK

Inside the town that’s home to America’s most notorious criminals

The federal Supermax looms large in popular culture, housing the worst of the worst offenders in America – from El Chapo to terrorists and criminal masterminds. The people who live and work nearby in Colorado’s Florence and Fremont County tell Sheila Flynn what it’s like to live in the shadow…

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Consuelo Loera López, Mother of Cartel Leader 'El Chapo' Guzmán, Dies

Consuelo Loera López was 94 and had been interned in a clinic for the past two weeks

Latin Times

Suspected Mexican cartel leader facing drug charges in Chicago sees Treasury Department freeze his assets

Authorities say Oscar Manuel Gastelum Iribe, as head of the Beltran Leyva Organization, conspired to import tons of heroin and cocaine.

Chicago Sun-Times

Drug kingpin linked to son of El Chapo gunned down in Los Angeles

Eduardo Escobedo, 39 – known as ‘El Mago’ – was killed during the incident on an industrial lot on Thursday morning

The Independent UK

Biden hails arrest in Mexico of notorious Sinaloa cartel enforcer ‘El Nini’

Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas provided protection for sons of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán and allegedly fed rivals to pet Bengal tigers

The Guardian - US

Group tied to El Chapo’s sons reportedly orders halt to manufacture of fentanyl in Mexico, but experts are skeptical

“I don’t buy this for a minute,” says former DEA official Jack Riley. “Sinaloa is too heavily invested in fentanyl and its revenue to pull out.”

Chicago Sun-Times

In El Chapo fallout, older brother of twin Chicago drug traffickers sentenced for helping launder their money

Armando Flores, the brother of Margarito and Pedro Flores, admitted to hiding $2.3 million of the twins’ drug proceeds under his back porch in Texas. He got “time served” for the 19 months he spent in jail.

Chicago Sun-Times

Wife of cartel boss who snitched on El Chapo is jailed for hiding $2.3m of drug money

Prosecutors say money was used for luxury vacations, shopping sprees, private schools fees and to attend a J-Lo concert

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‘Cartel wife’ Valerie Gaytan, whose husband helped bring down El Chapo, warns of ‘fast life’

On her husband Margarito Flores Jr.’s “Surviving El Chapo” podcast, she says she was relieved she got three and a half years in prison for money-laundering, not the five years prosecutors wanted. Still, “it is scary.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Another ‘cartel wife’ gets 3.5 years for hiding millions in drug money tied to El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel

The feds pointed out the $2.3 million Valerie Gaytan stashed was generated “through the sale of thousands of kilograms of drugs in the United States ... that harmed individuals and communities in countless ways.”

Salon

Zelenskyy and the theatre of politics

As public support for the Ukraine war recedes, Penn's documentary paean to Volodymyr Zelenskyy debuts just in time

Chicago Sun-Times

‘El Raton,’ son of cartel kingpin ‘El Chapo,’ appears in chains at his arraignment in Chicago

Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33, is charged with taking over a ruthless Mexican cartel that trafficked cocaine, fentanyl into Chicago and the U.S.

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‘El Chapo’ son extradited to Chicago to face drug conspiracy charges

El Chapo also faced federal drug charges in Chicago, but was ultimately was prosecuted in federal court in Brooklyn. Now his son will likely be arraigned at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago’s Loop.

Chicago Sun-Times

In El Chapo fallout, one of Chicago ‘cartel wives’ should get stiffer sentence than accomplices, feds say

They say Valerie Gaytan should get five years for laundering drug money from her husband Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro Flores, Chicago cocaine kingpins who helped convict the Sinaloa cartel boss. Her sister-in-law got 3½ years.

Chicago Sun-Times

El Chapo’s wife released from U.S. custody after 3-year prison sentence

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been released from federal custody after completing a sentence for helping run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.

The Independent UK

El Chapo's wife released from US custody after completing 3-year prison sentence

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been released from federal custody after completing a three-year sentence for helping him run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Don’t screw up,’ judge warns sister-in-law of Flores twins who turned on El Chapo, giving her probation

“Here’s the deal, this is like you just won the World Series,” U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly warned Bianca Finnigan, 34. “You won’t get a second break.”

Chicago Sun-Times

They were 2 Chicago pizza delivery guys. Then, they ran a Mexican drug cartel, feds say

The Guerreros Unidos cartel that authorities say brothers Adan and Mario Casarrubias Salgado led fed Chicago’s appetite for heroin and is blamed for the massacre of 43 students in Mexico.

Chicago Sun-Times

Margarito Flores, Chicago cocaine kingpin who helped bring down El Chapo, will teach cops how to catch drug traffickers

One of the notorious Flores twins is to lead a seminar at the Kane County sheriff’s office — “a rare chance for us to get into the mind of the people we are trying to find,” an official says.

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