El Chapo, the attorney said, "has reached his limit." The U.S. Attorney's office there also has secured the extradition and convictions of more than a half dozen of El Chapo lieutenants. In the nationwide sweepstakes among federal jurisdictions to put Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on trial, the place currently leading the pack is far from the border: Brooklyn. Around the same time, Mexico's foreign ministry said it had sought and received "sufficient guarantees" from U.S. officials that Guzman wouldn't be executed. Only San Diego — the first to indict Guzman in 1996 — and El Paso have made formal extradition requests.

Source: ABC News June 12, 2016 17:43 UTC