El Chapo is sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years and ordered to pay $12.6B in forfeiture: his winding road from mountain village to drug lord to U.S. prison
- Mexican drug lord Joaquin"El Chapo" Guzman, who rose from humble origins in a mountain village to lead the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world's most powerful drug trafficking gangs, was sentenced on Wednesday by a U.S. judge to life in prison, plus 30 years.
- 1993 - Guzman is arrested in Guatemala and extradited to Mexico two weeks after hired gunmen killed a Roman Catholic cardinal they mistook for him. He was sentenced to prison, but used his money to make his stay more comfortable, with lovers, prostitutes and Viagra, according to accounts published in the Mexican media.
- FEB. 22, 2014 - Guzman is captured without incident in a predawn raid on a seaside condominium in Sinaloa. - JAN. 19, 2017 - Mexican authorities turn Guzman over to U.S. law enforcement agents who bring him to New York in a small jet. A day later he appears in a U.S. court in Brooklyn and pleads not guilty to 17 criminal counts that he ran the world's largest drug-trafficking organization.
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