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(NewsNation) — One of Mexico’s most-feared cause lords was released from a U.S. situation aft serving much than fractional of a 25-year situation sentence.
On Friday, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén was placed successful the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an authoritative from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons confirmed, which would usually suggest he'd beryllium deported backmost to Mexico.
The Biden medication planned to transportation Cardenas Guillen to Mexico, an anonymous U.S. official told NBC News past week.
MEXICO - (UNDATED PHOTO): Drug trafficker Osiel Cardenas Guillen is shown successful this representation released by the Mexican government. (Photo by Mexican Secretary of Defense/Getty Images)Cárdenas Guillén, besides known arsenic “El Mata Amigos,” oregon "The 1 who kills his friends," was the erstwhile caput of the Gulf cartel. The 57-year-old autochthonal of Matamoros, Mexico, was known for his brutality, and helium created the astir bloodthirsty pack of hitmen Mexico has ever known, the Zetas.
He was sentenced to 25 years successful situation successful 2010 and ordered to forfeit tens of millions of dollars. It's unclear wherefore helium didn't service his afloat sentence, but helium was extradited to the U.S. successful January 2007.
His astir brazen enactment was erstwhile helium surrounded and stopped a conveyance carrying 2 U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and 1 of their informants successful 1999 successful the borderline metropolis of Matamoros, crossed from Brownsville, Texas.
His gunmen pointed their weapons astatine the agents and demanded they manus implicit the informant, who would astir surely beryllium tortured and killed. The agents toughed it retired and refused, reminding him it would beryllium a atrocious determination to termination employees of the DEA. Cárdenas Guillén yet called disconnected his gunmen, but not earlier reportedly saying “You gringos, this is my territory.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
