Osiel Cárdenas Guillén – the notorious drug dealer nicknamed the “Killer Boyfriend” – has returned to Mexico after being sentenced to prison in the United States.

Notorious drug lord Osiel Cardenas Guillén He was returned to Mexico after serving a prison sentence in the United States, and was quickly rearrested and sent to a maximum security prison to face Mexican charges.

There was tension over the imminent return of Cárdenas Guillén, who once led the Intimidators Gulf Cartel in northeastern Mexico before being captured and extradited to the United States in 2007.

The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed on its social media accounts on Monday that Cárdenas Guillén had been returned after spending 14 years in US custody, most of his 25-year US prison term. He is a Mexican citizen and was supposedly deported.

“The successful removal of Osiel Cardenas, a notorious international fugitive, underscores our unwavering commitment to public safety and justice,” said Samuel Olson, Director of the Chicago Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations. statement.

A Mexican federal official, who was not authorized to reveal his name, said Cárdenas Guillén was immediately detained in Mexico on drug, organized crime and money laundering charges.

Cárdenas Guillén is being held in the country’s high-security Altiplano prison west of Mexico City, the official said.

Homeland Security Investigations released photos of Cárdenas Guillén, bald, stocky, and bespectacled, accompanied by two officers wearing helmets and bulletproof vests, being walked over a border bridge.

The photo contrasts with the drug lord’s fearsome reputation for violence in Mexico.

Nicknamed “El Mata Amigos” (“The Friend Killer”), he recruited former Mexican Special Forces soldiers to form his personal guard. The former head of the Gulf gang was known for his brutality. He created the most bloodthirsty gang of killers Mexico has ever known, the Zetas, which routinely slaughtered migrants and innocents.

The 57-year-old native of the border city of Matamoros, Mexico, moved tons of cocaine and made millions of dollars through the Gulf Cartel based in the border cities of Reynosa and Matamoros.

After his arrest in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas, he was extradited in 2007 to the United States, where he was imprisoned. He was sentenced in 2010 to 25 years in prison He was ordered to pay $50 million.

At that time it was the Ministry of Justice The alleged one That Cardenas Guillén threatened to kill a Texas sheriff’s deputy who was working as an undercover ICE agent because he refused to hand over nearly 1,000 kilograms of marijuana.