Three men allegedly linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, accused of conspiring to distribute a thousand kilograms of cocaine will be put on trial by federal prosecutors in New Hampshire, informed local media.
According to network Univisión, the accused, Manuel Jesús Gutiérrez Guzmán, Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela and Samuel Zazueta, who were arrested 13 months ago in the port of Algeciras in Spain, will face a trial that will tentatively begin in early December.
Manuel Jesús Gutiérrez Guzmán has been identified as a cousin of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, and his arrest along with the others was a result of a thorough investigation 3 years long, on the activities of the Sinaloa Cartel's drug trafficking, an organization that seeks to establish a market for cocaine in Europe and the United States", informed Mexican magazine Proceso.
It's worth noting that Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela, one of the men arrested in Madrid, was a PRI precandidate for the first district in San Luis Río Colorado, in the state of Sonora in northern Mexico, during the electoral process on July 2, 2012, reads an investigation by the same Mexican magazine.
According to the information published by Univisión, the three accused are members of the Sinaloa Cartel, led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Ismael Zambada García and Juan José Esparragoza Moreno.
So far, Celaya Valenzuela has impugned his extradition process, and will have to present himself this Tuesday, September 3 at the Federal Tribunal of the District of Concord, after being transported from Spain during the weekend.
A fourth accused man named Jesús Soto, will face a separate trial on Spanish territory.
Last week, Guzmán and Celaya Valenzuela's advocates presented some arguments about the convenience of splitting their cases; however, the district judge Joseph LaPlante, is reluctant to agree to the petition, informed Univisión.
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