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El Chapo whisked away to Colorado Supermax prison, lawyer says

By 07/18/2019 | updated 6 years ago
In this Jan. 8, 2016 file photo, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is made to face the media in Mexico City as he is escorted by Mexican soldiers following his recapture six months after escaping from a maximum security prison. The notorious Mexican drug lord was convicted of drug-trafficking charges, Tuesday, Feb. 12 2019, in federal court in New York.

NEW YORK – A lawyer says authorities have wasted no time in sending the convicted Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo to an ultra-high-security prison in Colorado where he will serve a life sentence.

Defense Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said Thursday that Joaquin Guzman was whisked away by helicopter only a few hours after his sentencing in New York City on Wednesday.

He said authorities would tell him only that his client was en route to the Supermax facility in Florence. Prison officials and prosecutors wouldn’t talk about Guzman’s whereabouts on Thursday. 

The 62-year-old Guzman had been the subject of extreme security measures ever since his extradition to the U.S. in 2017 to face drug-trafficking charges.

Authorities were determined to prevent any repeat of the notorious narco’s jailbreaks in Mexico.

In this Jan. 8, 2016 file photo, drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is made to face the media in Mexico City as he is escorted by Mexican soldiers following his recapture six months after escaping from a maximum security prison. The notorious Mexican drug lord was convicted of drug-trafficking charges, Tuesday, Feb. 12 2019, in federal court in New York.
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