US indictments against accused Mexican drug lord
Feb 22, 2014, 9:11 PM
(AP) – Mexico’s most wanted drug dealer, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, faces at least seven indictments in federal court in the United States. Some of the cases pending against him:
Southern District of California, San Diego, 1995
_Four counts of conspiracy to import and possess cocaine with the intent to distribute.
Western District of Texas, Del Rio, 2001
_Two counts related to conspiracy to import and possess narcotics.
Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, 2009
_Two counts of conspiracy with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin.
_Distribution of heroin.
Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, 2009
_Participating in a continuing criminal enterprise responsible for smuggling more than 127,000 kilograms of cocaine into the United States.
_Eight counts of manufacture and distribution of cocaine.
Southern District of Florida, Miami, 2010
_Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine.
_Four counts of manufacture and distribution of cocaine.
District of New Hampshire, 2011
_Two counts of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.
Western District of Texas, El Paso, 2012
_Participating in continuing criminal enterprise responsible for smuggling large quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States. The charge includes of racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy to kill in a foreign country.
_Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
_Conspiracy to import cocaine.
_Conspiracy to commit money laundering.
_Conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of any violent or drug trafficking crime.
_Murder while engaging in or working in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise or drug trafficking. He is accused of being involved in four killings.
_Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise in furtherance of drug trafficking
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