Mexican cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is expected to appear in a court in New York on Friday, shortly after his surprise extradition from Mexico ended a decades-long career in drug-trafficking, dare-devil jail breaks and murder. A Justice Department spokesperson said El Chapo, or Shorty, once one of the world's most wanted drug lords, was set to appear for an arraignment at the federal court in Brooklyn. A few hours earlier, he was bundled out of the Mexican cell block with his hands cuffed above his bowed head, Mexican television footage showed. He is accused of money laundering and drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder in cities including Chicago, Miami and New York. El Chapo was captured a year ago, six months after he fled a high-security penitentiary in central Mexico through a mile-long tunnel, his second dramatic prison escape.

Source: Egypt Independent January 20, 2017 08:46 UTC