The infamous population of Brooklyn MDC prison keeps stacking up as three of Mexico's biggest drug lords now reside in the prison following new additions.
Concretely,Rafael Caro Quintero, and Vicente "El Viceroy" Carrillo Fuentes have joined Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada at the New York prison.
The three leaders
Caro Quintero and Carrillo Fuentes joined Zambada on February 27, when they were extradited from Mexico along with 27 other prisoners.
The co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, Zambada was arrested last year as part of an ongoing gang war between a group loyal to him and Los Chapitos, a group led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's sons.
According to Zambada, he was tricked by his "El Chapo"'s son Joaquín Guzmán López and lured to an area where he was kidnapped and sent to the United States.
Caro Quintero is the co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel and has been implicated in the torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, which could get him the death penalty. These events were recounted in the Netflix series, 'Narcos: Mexico," starring Diego Luna and Tenoch Huerta as Caro Quintero.
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes took over the Juarez cartel after the death of his infamous brother, Amado, better known as "El Señor de los Cielos." Vicente, along with the other two cartel leaders, all face drug trafficking charges and are being held at Brooklyn MDC indefinitely.
Other infamous inmates
The three cartel leaders aren't the only celebrities residing in the cells at Brooklyn MDC. Alongside them is the American rapper and businessman Sean "Diddy" Combs on sex trafficking charges.
Sharing a prison unit with Diddy is cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Bankman-Fried described Diddy as "kind to people in the unit."
Past inmates include the controversial rapper Daniel "6ix9ine" Hernandez, singer R. Kelly, 'Smallville' actress Allison Mack, and the alleged assassin of the United Healthcare CEO Luigi Mangione.
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