Notorious drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén has been returned to Mexico after serving a U.S. sentence and was rapidly re-arrested and despatched to a most safety jail to face Mexican prices.
There had been nervousness in regards to the impending return of Cárdenas Guillén, who as soon as led the dreaded Gulf cartel in northeastern Mexico earlier than he was arrested and extradited to the United States in 2007.
The U.S. Homeland Security Department confirmed in its social media accounts Monday that Cárdenas Guillén had been returned after serving 14 years in U.S. custody, most of his 25-year U.S. jail sentence. He is a Mexican citizen, so presumably he was deported.
“The profitable removing of Osiel Cardenas, a infamous worldwide fugitive, underscores our unwavering dedication to public security and justice,” mentioned Enforcement and Removal Operations Chicago Field Office Director Samuel Olson in a statement.
A Mexican federal official who was not approved to be quoted by identify mentioned Cárdenas Guillén had instantly been taken into custody in Mexico on drug, organized crime and money-laundering prices.
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The official mentioned Cárdenas Guillén was being held on the nation’s prime maximum-security Altiplano jail simply west of Mexico City.
Homeland Security Investigations posted photographs of a paunchy, balding, bespectacled Cárdenas Guillén being escorted by two officers in helmets and flak vests, and the being walked over a border bridge.
The picture contrasts with the drug lord’s fearsome repute for violence in Mexico.
Nicknamed “El Mata Amigos” (“Friend Killer”), he recruited former Mexican particular forces troopers to kind his private guard. The former head of the Gulf cartel was identified for his brutality. He created probably the most bloodthirsty gang of hitmen Mexico has ever identified, the Zetas, which routinely slaughtered migrants and harmless individuals.
The 57-year-old native of the border metropolis of Matamoros, Mexico, moved tons of cocaine and made thousands and thousands of {dollars} by the Gulf cartel, primarily based within the border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros.
After his arrest within the northeast border state of Tamaulipas, he was extradited in 2007 to the United States, the place he was sentenced in 2010 to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay $50 million.
At that point, the Justice Department alleged that Cardenas Guillen threatened to kill a Texas sheriff’s deputy who was working as an undercover ICE agent as a result of he refused to ship nearly 1,000 kilograms of marijuana.
