Ranking female operative in Mexican drug cartel appears in Chicago courtJason Meisner
Guadalupe Fernandez Valencia, left, one of the highest ranking female operatives under Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, right, appeared in a Chicago courtroom Wednesday to face sweeping conspiracy charges. (AP)One of the highest ranking female operatives under infamous Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, just extradited from Mexico, appeared in a Chicago courtroom Wednesday to face sweeping conspiracy charges alleging she coordinated the distribution of thousands of pounds of narcotics in Illinois and across the country.
Guadalupe Fernandez Valencia, 57, who allegedly reported directly to one of El Chapo’s sons, was arrested in February 2016 in the northwestern city of Culiacan in the state of Sinaloa, where Guzman had been recaptured a month earlier.
After more than a year and a half of extradition proceedings, Valencia, whose nickname, “La Patrona,” is Spanish for “The Boss,” was flown to Chicago on Wednesday for an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole.
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