‘El Chapo’ hitman had soundproof ‘murder room’

One of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s trusted hitmen kept a soundproof “murder room” with a drain to speed up messy executions, jurors have been told.

Edgar Galvan, a witness in Guzman’s trial, said Jose Antonio “Jaguar” Marrufo’s slaughterhouse was “where he killed people”, the New York Post reported.

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Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman is escorted by soldiers in Mexico City in 2016

Galvan said: “He took me once to a house where the floor was just white, tiled.

“In that house, no one comes out. No noise comes out.”

He also said he saw a “drainage outlet” at the property which was located in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.

Federal police escort suspect Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo alias

Trial witness Edgar Galvan said he met Jose Antonio ‘Jaguar’ Marrufo (pictured) in 2007
The 41-year-old said he met Marrufo – who is now in prison but controlled the city for Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel – in 2007 after he started hanging out at nightclubs after his divorce.

He was soon living in El Paso in Texas and helping his new “party friend” move guns across the border to help “clean” Ciudad Juarez of rival cartels.

The witness explained to the court in Brooklyn, New York, that this meant “to kill all of the people”.



El Chapo arriving in the US in 2017 after his extradition to Mexico
Who is drug lord ‘El Chapo’?
Galvan, who was arrested in 2011, told jurors during his evidence on Monday that he is currently eight years into a 24-year sentence after admitting charges of possession of firearms and drugs.

Guzman, 61, was extradited to the US last year after escaping from a Mexican prison twice, but his lawyers insist he is being framed.

The alleged Sinaloa co-founder is accused of smuggling more than 155 tonnes of cocaine into the US over 25 years.

He faces 11 trafficking, firearms and money laundering charges and is likely to be jailed for life if convicted.

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