“Char” for Borderland Beat
This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE
AUGUST 30, 2024
Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the Gulf Cartel, was released from prison in the United States on Friday, August 30, but his location is unknown.
U.S. government sources confirmed to the digital media Elefante Blanco that the drug lord left the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was imprisoned for the last months of his 14-year sentence on charges related to drug trafficking, threatening agents and money laundering.
Currently, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons lists Osiel’s location as “Unknown,” even though he has criminal proceedings pending in Mexico.
Cardenas Guillen, registered number 62604-079, was as of Friday in the USP Terre Haute prison.
In Mexico, he faces pending charges of organized crime and drug trafficking, but the Mexican government has not notified him of an eventual deportation.
Previous records from the same bureau suggest that Cardenas Guillen could have been released on July 1, 2024.
Osiel Cardenas, a former leader of the Gulf Cartel, was born in 1967 in Tamaulipas, and became the cartel’s leader in the 1990s, expanding his control over drug trafficking in northeastern Mexico.
He was captured on March 15, 2003 by the Mexican Army and extradited to the United States in 2007, where he was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges related to drug trafficking, money laundering and threatening federal agents.