El Chapo to travel twice weekly across Brooklyn Bridge
Accused drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will be moved twice every week during his drug trafficking trial in Brooklyn — on Mondays from the Metropolitan Correctional Center to Brooklyn’s federal court and on Fridays back to the MCC.
Police officials are concerned that he could be assassinated by representatives of other gangs, according to the New York Post. They also fear that he might try to abscond, since he has escaped twice from Mexican prisons.
Guzman’s Sinaloa Cartel has allegedly funneled more than 200 tons of narcotics into the U.S. He’s also hired hitmen to kill witnesses and rivals, the New York Post said.
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