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The patron founder of Los Zetas and former leader of the Gulf Cartel, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén has been returned to Mexico after serving his US sentence and was quickly re-arrested by Mexican authorities.
Cárdenas Guillén once led the feared Gulf Cartel before he was arrested and extradited to the United States in 2007.
US Homeland Security Department confirmed in its social media accounts Monday that Cárdenas Guillén had been returned after serving 14 years in US custody, most of his 25-year US prison sentence.
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A Mexican federal official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said Cárdenas Guillén had immediately been taken into custody in Mexico on drug, organized crime and money-laundering charges.
The official said Cárdenas Guillén was being held at the country’s top maximum-security Altiplano prison just west of Mexico City.