From Mexico with love!
Notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was extradited to the US on Thursday night as a slap in the face to Donald Trump, just hours before he’s set to take office, sources told The Post.
“Mexico wanted to get it done before the proverbial wall was built — both with bricks and bombastic diplomacy by the Trump Administration,” explained a federal law enforcement source familiar with the case.
“Mexico wanted to get this done with a Justice Department it knows and trusts, that understands the gravity and implications of the crimes that ‘El Chapo’ has been apart of,” the source said. “That’s not to say that the next Justice Department won’t be just as competent. But with the Trump Administration, everything is a question mark.”
Guzmán — infamously known both as “El Chapo” or “Shorty” — was flown to New York on Thursday at around 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time. His plane later landed at McArthur airport in Long Island at around 10 p.m., according to officials.
Sources told The Post that Guzmán was ultimately bound for Brooklyn’s Eastern District federal court to face his numerous charges, which include murder, kidnapping and drug trafficking. He is set to be arraigned in the next 48 hours.
According to the federal source, Mexico wanted him out of the country “as soon as possible” following his widely publicized prison breakouts in 2001 and 2014.
“They were already embarrassed by the two escapes and they conceded that ‘El Chapo’ had this vast network that included undocumented henchmen that lent itself to multiple people in different prisons with connections to him that could assist him in yet another escape,” the source told The Post. “Mexicans couldn’t handle another global embarrassment of another ‘El Chapo’ escape, so they extradited him.”