Newly released footage shows Mexican drug lord El Chapo wiping tears from his eyes as he touched down on US soil following his 2017 arrest.
On Tuesday the trial for the 61-year-old kingpin, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, neared its end as he was convicted on all 10 counts after the jury spent six days of deliberations and three months of testimony from former associates, employees and FBI agents.
Mexico's government extradited Guzman in January 2017, a day before Donald Trump took office as US president on vows to tighten border security to halt immigration and drug smuggling.
After Tuesday's verdict was announced, the Justice Department released footage showing a glassy-eyed Guzman in what appears to be a state of shock as he's handed over to American authorities and escorted by DEA agents through an air hanger.
In the photographs, the drug lord appears to be in a state of shock as he is handed over to American authorities
After the verdict was announced, the Justice Department released these never-before-seen images of his January 2017 extradition to the US
The footage shows Guzman being handed over to American authorities and escorted by DEA agents through a hanger
El Chapo will spend the rest of his life in US custody.
The charges included seven drug trafficking charges, one count of engaging in a criminal enterprise, one count of money laundering and one charge of firearms offenses.
The criminal enterprise count carries a mandatory life sentence. It is not yet known where he will serve his prison term.
He will return to court to be sentenced on June 25.
Among those in the courtroom on Tuesday to watch the infamous drug dealer meet his fate was his 29-year-old, ex-beauty queen wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro.
After the verdict was read out and translated for the defendant, he turned to look at her and blow her a kiss.
She smiled in response and, with tears in her eyes, gave him a thumbs up.
They have been married since she was 18. Coronel has worn headphones throughout the trial so that she could understand the proceedings.
In this courtroom sketch created on Tuesday, Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman and his wife give each other a thumbs up after he was convicted on all ten counts in his drug trafficking trial
El Chapo, the notorious Mexican drug lord, was found guilty on Tuesday of drug trafficking, criminal enterprise and firearms offenses after a three-month trial in Brooklyn. He will now likely spend the rest of his life in a US prison. He is shown in his 2016 mugshot
Emma Coronel Aispuro, El Chapo's 29-year-old former beauty queen wife, is shown leaving the courthouse after the verdict. She gave him a thumbs up when he learned his fate and had tears in her eyes but they had dried by the time she made her way to a waiting car
Aispuro, who had been posting inspirational quotes about love and loyalty on social media throughout the trial and took part in an interview to paint her husband as a loving father, deleted Instagram after the verdict was delivered.
Her husband appeared emotionless as the verdict was translated to him.
His lawyers have since released a statement to say they plan to appeal the conviction and that he was 'upbeat' despite it.
'The government’s reliance on the testimony of cooperating witnesses laid bare the corruption of the criminal justice system where freedom is traded by the government in exchange for testimony,' it said.
The trial included testimony from former associates and employees of the drug kingpin who is considered one of the most dangerous men in the world.
They spoke at length about how he ordered killings and controlled a multi-billion dollar Mexican cartel including when he was on the run from Mexican authorities after breaking out of prison.
El Chapo's defense spent just 30 minutes trying to negate the months of witness testimony.
They claimed he is being framed and that the real leader of the Sinaloa cartel is someone else.
After the verdict was returned, members of the defense team described it as 'devastating'.
Aispuro fought through a sea of photographers and was flanked by NYPD officers in addition to her own, private security to leave the courthouse
Aispuro was escorted by a friend as she left the courthouse amid a sea of media on Tuesday. She was in high spirits, as was her husband, according to his lawyers, despite the verdict
Earlier in the day, she was more downcast as she arrived at the court during a blizzard. She has attended every day of her husband's trial
In this artist's sketch created on Tuesday, Guzman and his wife wave at each other after he entered the courtroom
No cameras were allowed inside the courtroom throughout the trial. Another artist's sketch depicts the jury and Guzman on Tuesday
While it is yet to be confirmed, it is likely El Chapo will serve his life sentence out at the ADX prison complex in Florence, Colorado
Hours before the deliberation, Jeffrey Lichtman, one of his lawyers tweeted a link to The Clash song Guns of Brixton which, with lyrics including 'When the law break in How you gonna go? Shot down on the pavement or waiting on death row?' serves as the anthem for going down fighting.
Lichtman said after the trial that he can 'proudly say' the defense 'left it all on the battlefield' by presenting half-an-hour of arguments.
In a press conference afterwards, he said El Chapo was 'upbeat' despite the verdict.
'He was very clear to us, he is a very upbeat guy.
'Usually it's the other way around. This is a positive guy, he has always been positive with us.
'We judge him differently than you judge him. We judge him differently than society judges him... we judge him on how he is with us.
'He has always been a gentleman, he has always been supportive, he has always been happy and appreciative of all of our efforts,' he said.
U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan praised jurors for taking their time to meticulously deliberate the charges in the face of global interest and pressure to convict one of the most notorious criminals of all time.
He said their treatment of the trial 'made him 'very proud to be an American.'
After the trial, US Attorney Richard Donoghue said El Chapo would have 'no escape' from his conviction.
'It is a sentence from which there is no escape and there is no return.
'This conviction is a victory for the American people who have suffered for so long and so muhc while Guzman made billions pouring poison over our southern border.
'This is a victory for the Mexican people who have lost more than 100,000 lives in drug-related violence.
Guzman is pictured being accompanied through an air hanger by DEA agents in January 2017
Triumphant: US Attorney Richard Donoghue said El Chapo would have 'no escape' from his conviction
Defense attorneys Jeffrey Lichtman (left) and Eduardo Balarezo (right) are shown arriving for the verdict on Tuesday. Lichtman said afterwards that he could 'proudly say' they left it 'all on the battlefield'. Their defense was just 30 minutes long. The say they plan to appeal the verdict and that the witnesses who testified against their client only did so because they got immunity in exchange
Hours before the verdict was returned, Lichtman tweeted this link to The Clash song Guns of Brixton which serves as an anthem for the notion of going down fighting with lyrics including 'When the law break in How you gonna go? Shot down on the pavement or waiting on death row'
As has been the case throughout the entirety of the trial, there was increased security on Tuesday
'It is a victory for every family who have lost a loved one to the black hole of addiction.
'There are those who say the war on drugs is not worth fighting. Those people are wrong.'
He added that the trial 'pulled back the curtain on international drug dealing' and said it exposed, for the first time, the 'endemic corruption' which facilitates drug trafficking.
'This is a day of reckoning but there will be more days of reckoning,' Donoghue added.
Ray Donovan, DEA Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division, added: 'Joaquin Guzman Loera has been a DEA target from his early days as a transporter, to his role as distributor, and finally head of the most feared cartel in the world- the Sinaloa Cartel.
'Chapo’s escapes only made us more determined to bring him to the United States to face multiple charges on multiple indictments. And today’s conviction brings justice to not only New Yorkers who lived in a city the Sinaloa Cartel used as a drug distribution hub, but it brings justice to victims of overdose deaths nationwide.'
After the verdict was returned, the Justice Department gave further details of his criminal empire which involved the cartel selling tonnes of drugs to distributors all over the US.
The evidence from the trial included phone calls in which he was recorded ordering his associates to send 'ice' - the colloquial term for methamphetamine - to various states across the US.
He also ordered the mass distribution of cocaine, heroin and marijuana across the country. Tuesday's verdict is the drug dealer's third conviction.
He has escaped from Mexican prison twice in the last 20 years but was handed over to the US in January 2016 by President Enrique Nieto who has been accused of taking pay-offs from the very cartel that Guzman runs in exchange for leaving him alone.
El Chapo was finally captured for the last time in Mexico in 2016 after being on the run for more than a year. He has broken out of prison twice over the last 20 years to the mortification of the Mexican authorities he and his cronies have long-claimed are corrupt
In this 2016 image taken inside his prison cell in Mexico, El Chapo is seen staring at the ceiling
The beginning of the end? El Chapo was arrested in Mexico after meeting with actor Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo while he was on the run from authorities. After his arrest, Mexican officials suggested that their meeting, which Penn wrote about for Rolling Stone, led to his capture
Nieto has always denied the allegations.
Since he was brought to the US, Guzman has been held in solitary confinement in prisons in Manhattan and in a secret location for the duration of his trial.
When it began, the NYPD had to close the Brooklyn Bridge to ensure there was no interference as he was transported to the courthouse for the first time in an extraordinary security measure.
The trial, which began in November, has attracted Mexican television stars and the gaze of the world's media.
It was not without obstacle.
Among the most challenging stages was jury selection when dozens of people had to be discounted after admitting that they would fear for their life if they were selected.
Others were rejected after confessing to admiring Guzman including one man who even asked a court bailiff to help him get the defendant's autograph.
There were allegations at one stage that the defendant was secretly communicating with his former beauty queen wife who was seen using a forbidden cell phone during some proceedings.
FBI agents also testified in addition to the criminals the defendant once employed.
Part of his defense was that they could not be trusted because they were violent criminals.
Before the case even reached trial, his attorneys argued that he had been mistreated while in custody and that his health was declining.
They suggested that he was losing his mind as a result of the solitary confinement he was subjected to and that his memory was also imploding.
During the course of the trial, the only people who were allowed to visit him were his twin seven-year-old daughters.
He has another 11 children by different woman. One of his sons was killed in a parking lot shootout with a rival gang in 2008.
In addition to his life sentence, prosecutors have been seeking $14billion from Guzman.
On Tuesday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz introduced what he is calling the 'El Chapo Act' which would make him pay for the president's border wall.
The wall has been a source of contention for months and led to the government shutdown at the start of the year.
Trump wants $5.7billion from the government to build it.
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