2023-05-05 05:48:17
The defense of Jorge Iván Gastélum, alias ‘El Cholo Iván’, who was Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s bodyguard, denounced this Thursday before a court the alleged bad conditions in which he lives the defendant for drug trafficking in a United States prison.
Through a judicial document, the lawyer Alfred Guillaume asked the Court of the District of Columbia to order the transfer from ‘Cholo Iván’ to another area of the Alexandria (Virginia) jail where he is being held or to another prison.
According to his account, “Chapo’s” bodyguard, extradited from Mexico a month ago, is being held under conditions “unduly harsh that do not measure up to acceptable standards”.
He criticized that the defendant he is only allowed out of the cell for two hours a daybetween midnight and two in the morning, to bathe and call his family in Mexico.
In addition, “Cholo Iván” “cannot sleep all night” due to noise from the constant influx of new inmates and because the lights are on 24 hours a day in your area.
The defense added that Chapo’s bodyguard He only has a blanket in his cell. And that the air conditioning bothers you.
He also denounced that the management of the penitentiary center refuses to move him to another area due to “high profile status” that you have as a recluse.
The ‘Cholo Iván’, extradited to the United States in April, is charged with conspiracy for drug trafficking, which entails a maximum sentence of life imprisonmentas well as another 30 years in prison for weapons-related crimes.
The defendant helped “El Chapo” to flee on January 8, 2016 from an operation by the federal forces of Mexico carried out at a home in the town of Los Mochis (Sinaloa).
They both escaped through the sewer tunnels.but several hours later they surfaced and stole a vehicle, which was intercepted by federal police on a highway, and the two were captured.
While “Chapo” was extradited to the United States in 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019, “Cholo Iván” had remained in the custody of the Mexican authorities until a month ago.
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