A top Sinaloa cartel leader has plead guilty in Chicago, and he could play a big role in ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s trial

REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar CHICAGO (AP) — A former top lieutenant to Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and likely witness at the Mexican drug lord’s New York trial has pleaded guilty to trafficking conspiracy in Chicago, saying in a plea agreement unsealed Friday that he will cooperate with prosecutors in hopes of a reduced sentence and protection from […]

The identities of the jurors in Mexican cartel kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s federal trial will be kept secret

The identities of the jurors in Mexican cartel kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s federal trial will be kept secret NOW WATCH: What El Chapo is really like — according to the wife of one his closest henchman See Also: There is actually a logical explanation for why there is an Olympic sport that combines cross-country skiing […]

The son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s former right-hand man is reportedly talking to US authorities, and it could be trouble for the Sinaloa cartel

The son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s former right-hand man is reportedly talking to US authorities, and it could be trouble for the Sinaloa cartel NOW WATCH: What El Chapo is really like — according to the wife of one his closest henchman

‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s powerful Sinaloa cartel is withering while he sits in a US jail

Thomson Reuters Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was extradited to the US on January 19 and has occupied a cell in a high-security facility in Manhattan ever since, awaiting his trial in April 2018. As Guzman stews in his cell, largely isolated from the outside world, the cartel he guided to the top […]

The son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s shadowy business partner just busted out of prison

Mexican National Security Commission/El Universal Suspected Mexican drug trafficker Juan Jose Esparragoza Monzon, aka El Negro, reportedly escaped from a prison in the city of Culiacan in northwest Mexico’s Sinaloa state on Thursday afternoon. Monzon, who was captured January 19, is the son of Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno, who is a longtime partner of Joaquin […]

‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s legal fate has people in Mexico braced for bloody, ‘unintended consequences’

Reuters In the months prior to Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s extradition in January, his impending absence from Mexico’s cartel scene stirred fears that narco violence in the country could intensify with him gone. Bloodshed in recent months seems to indicate his departure has been noted by rival groups. Now one potential legal […]