Escaped New York prisoner may have ties to Mexican cartel - Monitor
In his 2007 extradition to the U. S. , Matt was “sent back alongside a slew of high-ranking members of both the Gulf and Arellano-Felix drug cartels,” according to reports. Among them was former Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Gullien. The prison in Mexico in which Matt was held was “largely controlled by the Gulf Cartel,” and there is a possibility he remained in touch with a former chief of international operations with the Drug Enforcement Agency told the Express-News. “They’re not as powerful as they once were because Osiel Cardenas Guillen was captured and extradited to the U. S. , and combined with the fact that once he was arrested and extradited, it really damaged their leadership — it’s pretty much in... Matt was serving 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of Matt’s 76-year-old former boss, whose body was found in pieces in a river. Source: www.themonitor.com
