"THE FAMOUS OF PUENTE GRANDE
The Puente Grande prison is known for housing inmates considered highly dangerous.
The most famous was "El Chapo”, who managed to escape from the center considered maximum security in 2001 using a laundry cart and a strong network of complicities inside and outside the prison.
Currently in Puente Grande are held Miguel Felix Gallardo, better known as "The Jefe of Jefes', leader of the Guadalajara cartel. Félix Gallardo was arrested in 1989 for the crimes of homicide, crimes against health and bribery.
Just in 2017, 37 years were imposed for the murder, in 1985, of the former DEA agent, Enrique Camarena Salazar and the Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar.
Other famous of Puente Grande: Jesús Alfredo Beltrán Guzmán, ''El Mochomito'', son of the head of the Beltrán Leyva cartel. "El Mochomito" is pointed out as the author of the attack against the mother of "El Chapo" and the kidnapping of Iván Archivaldo and Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, sons of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
Also in Puente Grande cells was Rafael Caro Quintero nicknamed The Narco de Narcos, founder of the Guadalajara cartel. Indicated accused of various crimes such as organized crime and drug trafficking and for the murder of the former DEA agent, Enrique ´Kiki´ Camarena Salazar and his pilot, Alfredo Avelar, in 1985.
Another “guest” of Puente Grande was Juan Pedro Saldívar Farías , known as El Z-27 , he was arrested in October 2013 in the municipality of San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, identified as the alleged regional chief of Los Zetas in Tamaulipas.
Another behind the bars of this maximum security prison is Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, El Viceroy, who was captured on October 9, 2014 and it is unknown what other prison he will be transferred to.
The prison in addition to housing drug lords, one of its inmates was Sandra Ávila Beltrán known as "The Queen of the Pacific", considered the most famous drug trafficker in the country.
Her stay was short and then she was transferred to prisons in the United States and in 2013 she returned to Mexico to be admitted to a prison in Nayarit. In 2015, Miguel Ángel Gallardo Félix's niece regained her freedom."
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