Famous Mexican drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been found guilty on all counts against him and is expected to spend the rest of his life in a US jail
Guzman are going to be held during a maximum-security prison within the US to avoid any jailbreaks.
Famous Mexican drug baron , Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been found guilty on all counts against him and is predicted to spend the remainder of his life during a US jail
El Chapo who escaped from prison twice, made his first successful attempt in 2001 and broke out of a Mexican jail by hiding during a laundry bin.
Then, in 2014, he fled jail through a mile-long lighted tunnel which his associates had fitted with a motorbike on rails. He was arrested again in 2016 and extradited to the US the subsequent year.
On Tuesday, Guzman was convicted of running a criminal enterprise that amassed him a $14 billion (£11 billion) fortune. He ran the Sinaloa cartel, becoming the world's most notorious drug lord since Pablo Escobar, the Colombian who was shot dead in 1993.
The 61-year-old showed no emotion as a jury in ny found him guilty of 10 drug-related charges. He are going to be sentenced on June 25, and can face a compulsory life term.
After the verdicts were read the Mexican drug baron , wearing a charcoal suit and tie, leaned back in his chair and checked out his wife Emma Coronel, 29, a beauty queen. Both placed their hands on their hearts and gave one another a thumbs up. She had tears in her eyes.
The jury of 5 men and 7 women, who are under special protection since the trial began in November, deliberated for 6 days
During the trial, they heard allegations of gruesome murders, guns encrusted with diamonds or plated with gold, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, and a unadorned escape by Guzman with a mistress through a tunnel.
Prosecutors presented what they called an "avalanche" of evidence showing how Guzman, and his murderous Sinaloa cartel, made billions of dollars in profits by smuggling plenty of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and cannabis into the US.
The court heard an allegation that Enrique Pena Nieto, the previous Mexican president, took a $100 million bribe from Guzman. Mr Pena Nieto denied it.
Jurors were also told of Guzman's personal brutality. On one occasion he was imagined to have kidnapped an associate who left his cartel, beating and shooting him, before having the victim buried alive.
A cast of 56 witnesses, many of them Mexican drug traffickers already in US prisons, gave evidence against him.
They included a Colombian referred to as Chupeta, or Lollipop, whose face had been so altered by cosmetic surgery while on the run that the court collectively gasped at his appearance.
One of Guzman's many mistresses, Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, told how she was in bed during a house with the drug baron when he was doggo in 2014.
Mexican marines broke down the door but Guzman led her to a door beneath a tub , which led to an escape tunnel. "He was naked. He took off running," she told the court.'.
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