Mexican officials have suggested it was essentially a prisoner exchange for two other cartel operatives who had been imprisoned in Chicago.
Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel and Tom JonesOn Tuesday, Mexico's Secretary of Security announced that Guzman Lopez and his brother Ovidio, who is awaiting trial in Chicago for drug trafficking, had cut a deal with American p
But others with knowledge of how these arrests work say there was no prisoner exchange and that the Mexican government is trying to save face after being left out of the operation.When a plane from Mexico landed in Texas last month, FBI agents were there to arrest cartel drug lord El Mayo, a U.S. fugitive for years, who had a $15-million bounty on his 76-year old head. El Mayo was with one of El Chapo's sons, Joaquin Guzman Lopez.
Riley is the fabled former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Chicago who literally wrote the book on EL Chapo. Riley said he doesn't believe stories suggesting El Chapo's sons have freedom-deals and are being released in exchange for El Mayo.
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