Drug kingpin 鈥楽horty鈥 gets life jail term
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Joaquin 鈥淓l Chapo鈥 Guzman, the Mexican drug lord found guilty of running a murderous criminal enterprise that smuggled tons of drugs into the United States, was sentenced by a US judge yesterday to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Judge Brian Cogan imposed the sentence of life plus 30 years, which was mandatory under the law, at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn.
Cogan also ordered Guzman to forfeit US$12.6 billion.
Guzman, 62, was found guilty by a jury in February of trafficking tons of cocaine, heroin and marijuana and engaging in multiple murder conspiracies as a top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, long known as one of Mexico鈥檚 largest and most violent drug trafficking organizations.
Guzman, whose nickname means 鈥淪horty,鈥 developed a reputation as a Robin Hood-like figure that made him a folk hero to many in his home state of Sinaloa, where he was born in a poor mountain village.
He is being held in solitary confinement in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Cogan last month rejected his request for more time to exercise on the jail鈥檚 roof after prosecutors said that would risk an escape.
Before he was finally captured in 2016, Guzman twice escaped maximum-security prisons in Mexico. He was extradited to the US in January 2017. Guzman made a name for himself in the 1980s by digging tunnels under the US-Mexico border.
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