Joaquín Guzmán

Case file

Charge

Drug trafficking, conspiracy

Facility

ADX Florence

Era

Current system

Years held

2019–

Background

• Longtime leader of the Sinaloa cartel, accused of moving vast quantities of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine into the United States.
• Escaped Mexican prisons twice before his 2016 recapture and extradition to the United States in January 2017.
• Convicted in Brooklyn federal court in February 2019 on ten counts and sentenced to life plus thirty years; he is held at ADX Florence.

Files & sources

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• Conviction and sentencing announcementU.S. Attorney's Office, E.D.N.Y.court record
• Federal inmate locatorFederal Bureau of Prisonsgovernment
• Case overviewWikipediareference

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