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 king pin, 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 a 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
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.
The footage shows Guzman being handed over to American authorities and escorted by DEA agents through a hanger
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.
Count 1 - Engaging in a criminal enterprise
Verdict: Guilty
Count 2 - International Cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine and Marijuana Manufacture and Distribution Conspiracy
Verdict: Guilty
Count 3 - Cocaine Importation Conspiracy
Verdict: Guilty
Count 4 - Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy
Verdict: Guilty
Count 5 - International Distribution of Cocaine
Verdict: Guilty
Count 6 - International Distribution of Cocaine
Verdict: Guilty
Count 7 - International Distribution of Cocaine
Verdict: Guilty
Count 8 - International Distribution of Cocaine
Verdict: Guilty
Count 9 - Use of firearms
Verdict: Guilty
Count 10 - Conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds
Verdict: Guilty
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
The kingpin is known as much for jailbreaks as narcotics trafficking, so it's expected he will be sent to U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility aka ADX Florence, a super-secure Colorado prison home to America's most dangerous criminals.
Guzman, 59, was convicted of 10 counts of various drug trafficking charges at a U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
He was found guilty of running the world's largest drug smuggling operation during a decades-long criminal career that included the murder of rivals, money laundering and weapons offenses.
As a condition of his extradition, U.S. prosecutors assured Mexican officials that they would not seek the death penalty.
Widely known as Supermax, or 'Alcatraz of the Rockies,' the facility opened in 1994 and holds 402 inmates inside specially designed 'control units' that function as prisons within prisons
Now the pressure is on the U.S. to make sure Guzman doesn't make a slippery escape again. The notorious drug lord has already been imprisoned twice and made two escapes from two maximum-security Mexican prisons in 2001 and 2015.
Guzman will probably be sent away to ADX Florence, the one-and-only lockup designed to incarcerate the highest-risk prisoners in the federal penal system, located in Florence, Colorado, 90 miles (144 km) south of Denver.
'There's a high likelihood that he would end up at ADX Florence given his history of escaping and his ability to compromise corrections staff in Mexico,' said Martin Horn, a professor of corrections at City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice said in 2017.
Widely known as Supermax, or 'Alcatraz of the Rockies,' the facility opened in 1994 and holds 400-plus inmates inside specially designed 'control units' that function as prisons within prisons.
Inmates in these units are confined to single-person cells for up to 23 hours a day, depriving them of virtually all contact with the outside world.
It's currently home to 402 all male inmates.
Among its most infamous residents are Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York; convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; the airline 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid; and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
It's also home to 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
But the prison does hold one familiar face for the drug kingpin: Osiel Cardenas Guillen, the onetime leader of the Gulf cartel who was extradition to the U.S. in 2007 and sentenced to 25 years behind bars in 2010, according to Business Insider.
El Chapo's new home? A look inside the sterile cells of ADX florence pictured above with stone furniture
Special restrictions are designed not only to prevent escape and keep corrections staff safe but to ensure that the most incorrigible inmates have no means of exerting influence or threats beyond prison walls.
'The prisoners really have no contact with other prisoners, all their movements are controlled,' Horn told Reuters. 'They get
