The U.S. Justice Department issued a statement confirming that Guzman was en route to the United States and expressed gratitude to Mexico for its cooperation. He was recaptured a year ago after escaping from a second maximum-security prison through a tunnel dug to his cell. It says Guzman and other members of the Sinaloa cartel employed hit men who carried out murders, kidnappings and acts of torture. "The criminal Joaquin Guzman Loera was extradited this afternoon to face his pending legal cases," Mexican Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong tweeted. Guzman was initially returned to the Altiplano prison outside Mexico City where he escaped through the tunnel.

Source: Fox News January 19, 2017 23:19 UTC