MEXICAN DRUG LORD ‘EL CHAPO’ CONVICTED

New York, Feb. 13: Mexican mobster Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been convicted of crimes spanning a quarter-century in a trial that laid bare his lavish lifestyle and penchant for extreme violence as head of one of the world's most powerful gangs.

The 61-year-old former boss of the notorious Sinaloa cartel – famed for his brazen escapes from Mexican prisons – faces life in prison for smuggling tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States.

He was also found on Tuesday guilty on money laundering and weapons possession charges during trial in which witnesses described the mob boss shooting and even burying alive those who got in his way.