‘EL CHAPO’ TO REMAIN IN JAIL

NEW YORK The Mexican drug kingpin known as “El Chapo” will stay in prison after a U.S. appeals court refused to overturn his 2019 drug trafficking conviction despite a report that jurors had tracked the case in the media during his trial.

A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Tuesday rejected 10 arguments by the defendant, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, for a new trial. Guzman, 64, was convicted of trafficking billions worth of drugs and conspiring to murder enemies.