MEXICO CITY - A high-level financial operator for the Sinaloa Cartel and two other prisoners facing extradition to the United States escaped from a Mexico City jail Wednesday with the help of guards, authorities said. The biggest name among the escapees was Victor Manuel Félix Beltrán, who was designated by the U.S. Treasury in 2015 under the Kingpin Act. The Mexico City prosecutor’s office said in a statement that Luis Fernando Meza González and Yael Osuna Navarro were the other two escapees. Félix Beltrán took over after his father’s 2011 arrest and most recently was a key lieutenant for Guzman’s sons, according to the U.S. Treasury designation. But on Nov. 9, 2018, a federal judge ordered that Félix Beltrán be returned to the jail, said Rosa Icela Rodriguez, the capital’s government secretary.

Source: thestar January 29, 2020 18:55 UTC