El Chaapo Punishment

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In February 1992, police find the bodies of six El Chapo’s top lieutenants dumped along Tijuana highways the six men had been tortured and shot. In November 1992, six people are gunned down at a discotheque in Puerto Vallarta by gunmen working for El Chapo. Whose targets are traffickers in the Tijuana cartel. A year later in May 1993, gunmen with the Tijuana attempt to assassinate El Chapo in retribution, firing upon a vehicle at an airport. El Chapo escape unharmed but the cardinal archbishop of Guadalajara, Juan Jesus Posada Ocampo, is killed accidentally along with six other. In that same year on June 9, 1993, El Chapo is wanted on charges of drug trafficking, murder, and kidnapping. El Chapo is arrested in Guatemala and extradited to Mexico. …show more content…
In the Early 2000’s violence across Mexico escalates as El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel attempt to encroach upon Tijuana and Gulf Cartel territory. On January 19, 2001, El Chapo escapes the maximum-security Puente Grande prison in Jalisco, Mexico in a laundry cart. The planned escape requires bribes and cooperation allegedly costing 7.5 million, according to Malcolm Belth's book. “The last Narco.” On the Year 2004, the US government announces a $5 million reward for information leading to El Chapo’s arrest and conviction. In the Next 4 years, El Chapo didn't expect of what was going to happen on May, 2008, El Chapo's son is murder in a parking lot shootout near Culiacan Mexico. In 2009, El Chapo appears on Forbes billionaires list. On the same year, El Chapo and other cartel leaders are indicated on charges conspiring to import more than 264,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States between 1990 and 2005. On August 2011, El Chapo's wife Emma who has dual US/Mexican citizenship gives birth to twin girls in a hospital outside of Los Angeles. In 2012, the US department uses the foreign narcotics kingpin designation act to freeze the US assets of his …show more content…
A year later on July 11, 2015, El Chapo escapes again the maximum security Altiplano Federal Prison near Toluca Mexico by crawling through an opening in the shower area of his cell block leading to a nearly mile-long tunnel. A year later El Chapo was preparing to make a movie and on the run on October 2015 while on the run he meets with the movie star Sean Penn and Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo. Penn’s interview with El Chapo subsequently runs into rolling stone magazine “I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana than anybody else in the world.”El Chapo is quoted in the interview “ I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks, and boats.” the marines and military were looking for El Chapo but the authorities went to the Monchis looking for El Cholo but El Chapo was with him so they had a surprise when they found that out. So on January 8, 2016, El Chapo is recaptured by Mexican authorities in Los Mochis, who faces charges in seven states. Once extradited he will be sent to Brooklyn New York to stand trial on federal charges. On May 9, 2016, a judge in Mexico approves the US request to extradite El Chapo. On January 9, 2017, Mexico’s foreign ministry turns El Chapo over to us authorities. On the same year and month just 19 days later on January 20, 2017 he entered a plea of not guilty at his arraignment in us district court of New York. El Chapo has a twitter

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