US indictments against accused Mexican drug lord


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(AP) - Mexico's most wanted drug dealer, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, faces at least seven indictments in federal court in the United States. Some of the cases pending against him:

Southern District of California, San Diego, 1995

_Four counts of conspiracy to import and possess cocaine with the intent to distribute.

Western District of Texas, Del Rio, 2001

_Two counts related to conspiracy to import and possess narcotics.

Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, 2009

_Two counts of conspiracy with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin.

_Distribution of heroin.

Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, 2009

_Participating in a continuing criminal enterprise responsible for smuggling more than 127,000 kilograms of cocaine into the United States.

_Eight counts of manufacture and distribution of cocaine.

Southern District of Florida, Miami, 2010

_Conspiracy to manufacture and distribute cocaine.

_Four counts of manufacture and distribution of cocaine.

District of New Hampshire, 2011

_Two counts of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.

Western District of Texas, El Paso, 2012

_Participating in continuing criminal enterprise responsible for smuggling large quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States. The charge includes of racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy to kill in a foreign country.

_Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana.

_Conspiracy to import cocaine.

_Conspiracy to commit money laundering.

_Conspiracy to possess firearms in furtherance of any violent or drug trafficking crime.

_Murder while engaging in or working in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise or drug trafficking. He is accused of being involved in four killings.

_Engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise in furtherance of drug trafficking

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