In this photo provided U.S. law enforcement, authorities escort Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, center, from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at Long Island MacArthur Airport on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. “It is difficult to imagine another person with a greater risk of fleeing prosecution,” prosecutors wrote in court papers. The U.S. had been trying to get custody of Guzman since he was first indicted in California in the early 1990s. While Guzman faces federal charges in several U.S. states, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn won the jockeying to get the case. New York also boasts one of the most secure lockups in the United States, the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2017 00:14 UTC