If Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is extradited from Mexico, he may end up in court in Brooklyn, New York, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Officials in Washington have given other jurisdictions with outstanding charges against the purported leader of the world’s largest drug cartel a chance to make their case for trying him, according to these people. Chief among the concerns at the Justice Department is which of the various cases against Guzman has the best witnesses and fewest potential complications for bringing people to testify in a U.S. courtroom, they said. The current view at the Justice Department is that the Brooklyn case is the strongest, they said.