World's Top Drug Kingpin in Underground Cell

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, is being held in an underground cell near Mexico City following his arrest this weekend—and US federal prosecutors in New York want to extradite him. He's wanted in six districts in this country, NBC News reports: "I fully intend for us to have him tried here," says the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chicago office chief. Guzman was indicted in Chicago in 2009, the Chicago Tribune reports, and he could also see charges in Texas, California, or Arizona.

The US had a $5 million bounty on the kingpin, whose cartel "spans continents," in the words of attorney general Eric Holder. Guzman spent last night in a maximum security prison, the Los Angeles Times reports. The newspaper cites reports that Guzman was sleeping beside an AK-47 when US and Mexican authorities found him; he didn't get the chance to pick it up. What does his arrest mean for the cartel? "Absolutely nothing," one expert tells the Tribune; others agree, saying that he had little to do with Sinaloa's daily functioning. (More Joaquin Guzman stories.)