“Socalj” for Borderland Beat
Ovidio Guzmán was removed from the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons on July 23, just two days before his brother Joaquín landed at a New Mexico airport along with “El Mayo” Zambada. He was being held at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center awaiting trial following his extradition to the US last year.
“El Mayo’s” letter also claims that at least two of his bodyguards, a current and a former Sinaloa municpical police officers were ambushed and killed that day as well. The government’s version of the attempted carjacking robbery at a gas station that resulted in Cuen’s shooting death has been investigated and dropped by federal authorities.
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| BOP records on Oct. 17, 2024 |
Since July 25, Joaquin’s lawyer has denied that his client had any deal made with US authorities. US law enforcement has officially denied this as well, especially following claims of his kidnapping of “El Mayo” to bring him across the border where they were arrested by FBI, HSI and CBP agents.
The Sinaloa Governor claims to have been attending a baseball game in Los Angeles, California that day. He claims to have flown on the private jet belonging to a friend and business associate of his.
Sources from the Department of Supervision and Intelligence of the Office of Customs and Border Protection in the United States (CBP) revealed to Proceso via journalist Luis Chaparro that there is no entry in the name of Rubén Rocha Moya to the country on the date that he claims to have entered Los Angeles.
Sources conducted an exhaustive search using the full name of the Sinaloa governor, a search using his partial name and using his date of birth to find his entry record, but the system returned no results.
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As proof of his stay in Los Angeles, Rocha presented the flight log of the Lear 45 aircraft with registration XASKA owned by businessman Jesús Vizcarra Calderón.
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