Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been found guilty of drug-trafficking at a trial in New York.
Jurors convicted Guzman, 61, on all 10 counts. He now faces a attainable sentence of life in jail.
The Mexican was accused of being behind the Sinaloa drug cartel, which authorities mentioned smuggled tonnes of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the US.
Guzman broke out of Mexican prisons twice earlier than he was lastly recaptured and extradited to the US. in 2017.
He is because of be sentenced on June 25.

Guzman, is escorted by marines as he’s introduced to the press in Mexico Metropolis in 2014 (AFP/Getty Pictures)
Federal prosecutors put on greater than 50 witnesses over three months detailing how Guzman’s cartel amassed billions of {dollars} importing medicine into the US.
The trial supplied the general public an unprecedented take a look at the interior workings of the Sinaloa Cartel, named for the state in northwestern Mexico the place Guzman was born in a poor mountain village.
Witnesses detailed assassinations and political payoffs, and the way medicine had been smuggled utilizing tanker vans, railway carriages and even shipments of canned peppers.
Guzman is thought for 2 dramatic escapes he produced from Mexican prisons and the “Robin Hood” picture he cultivated amongst Sinaloa’s poor.
Proof confirmed medicine poured into the US by secret tunnels or hidden in tanker vans and railway carriages passing by professional factors of entry.
Key associates testifed towards Guzman, whose nicknames interprets to “Shorty”.
Amongst them had been Guzman’s former Sinaloa lieutenants, a pc encryption knowledgeable and a Colombian cocaine provider who underwent excessive cosmetic surgery to disguise his look.
Reporting by businesses.