US EditionDrug Kingpin ‘El Chapo’ Requests Transfer From U.S. to Mexico
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The Mexican drug baron Joaquín Guzmán Loera, nicknamed "El Chapo", has submitted a new request for extradition to his country at a federal court in New York. The famous smuggler was sentenced in 2019 to life imprisonment in the United States. ...
Judge Brian Cogan denied all requests of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, who accused an unfair trial and even irregularities of the judge himself
Mexican Joaquín Guzmán Loera, ‘El Chapo’, has again asked a federal court in New York for his extradition to Mexico, after being convicted in 2019 of drug-related crimes in that same court. On April 23, Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, detailed in a handwritten letter in English and published Monday by the East District of New York court that is “fighting for an extradition to Mexico.” Read also...
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Judge Brian Cogan refuses to return from a U.S. jail to Mexico to 'El Chapo' Guzm n, after you sent letters with new petitions.
Judge Brian Cogan, in charge of the case, formally rejected Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s extradition request, so the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel will not be able to return to Mexico.
By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and María Santana, CNN en Español. Federal Judge Brian Cogan rejected all five requests submitted in recent days by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in letters, including his request to be extradited to Mexico. In a May 4, 2026, order from the Brooklyn Federal Court, Judge Cogan noted that the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel requested various forms of legal relief, including a request for “Release by Extradition Back to Country,…
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