Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the 66-year-old who once ruled the deadly Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, lost his bid for freedom. A New York judge slammed the door on his appeal to overturn the 2019 sentence that locked him away for life.
El Chapo, notorious for escaping Mexican prisons twice before finally landing in U.S. hands in 2017, tried to argue his imprisonment was unfair. But the judge wasn't convinced. He called El Chapo's crimes so bad, they could have earned him the death penalty if not for a deal with Mexico.
Rumors swirled that El Chapo's lawyers didn't fight hard enough for a lighter sentence. Plus, secret evidence hinted he might still be pulling the strings on billions of dollars, even from behind bars.
His wife, Emma Coronel, a former beauty queen and mother of their twins, can't help either. After serving a short sentence for drug crimes, she walked free in September. But why she doesn't have access to El Chapo's cash, if any, remains a mystery.
Meanwhile, El Chapo chills in a Colorado prison nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," spending 23 hours a day locked in a tiny cell. His Sinaloa cartel may still be one of Mexico's biggest, but their leader's freedom days are over.
Comments
Post a Comment