Sinaloa Cartel Founder Returned to Mexico from U.S. Prison Gets Re-Arrested Fox News Latino
go to original June 16, 2016

Drug Lord Held on Murder Charges in Mexican Prison (KRGV)

Drug lord Hector "El Guero" Palma, one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, returned to his native Mexico after serving almost a decade in a U.S. prison and was immediately transported to another maximum-security lockup where he will await trial for two murders.

U.S. authorities handed over Palma in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, according to a statement from the Mexican Attorney General's Office. Palma had been released from federal prison in California on Friday and put into the custody of U.S. immigration officials.

The drug lord was flown to Mexico City late Wednesday and then transported to the Altiplano prison outside the capital, the same prison that Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped from in 2015.

Palma was detained under an arrest order from the western state of Nayarit. No additional details were provided about the two murders.

Earlier, Mexican officials had said they did not know whether authorities in Mexico planned to bring new charges against Palma. If not, Palma would go free.

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Related: U.S.-Mexico Drug War: Extraditions of Drug Lords Have Negative Consequences (Mexico Voices)

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