Overview

• On July 11, Zhang slipped out of his house arrest in Mexico City’s Narvarte district while under National Guard supervision.
• Authorities traced his movements via C5 surveillance cameras and recaptured him hours after the escape.
• He is accused of coordinating shipment of over 1,000 kg of cocaine, 1,800 kg of fentanyl and 600 kg of methamphetamine for the CJNG and Sinaloa cartels.
• Mexican agencies have opened internal probes into potential negligence in the safeguards that allowed his escape.
• U.S. courts in New York and Georgia have renewed requests for his extradition, and Zhang now awaits transfer from a maximum security federal prison.