{"id":1758703,"date":"2022-12-01T16:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758703"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:34:18","slug":"mexican-drug-trafficker-known-as-la-barbie-has-disappeared-from-registry-of-inmates-mexico-wants-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-drug-trafficker-known-as-la-barbie-has-disappeared-from-registry-of-inmates-mexico-wants-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Drug Trafficker Known As \u2018La Barbie\u2019 Has Disappeared From Registry Of Inmates. Mexico Wants Answers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexican-drug-trafficker-known-as-la-barbie-has-disappeared-from-registry-of-inmates-mexico-wants-answers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758703&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drug<\/a> trafficker serving a 49-year sentence in the United States has reportedly disappeared from the Federal Bureau of Prisons\u2019 online register of inmates.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador asked the U.S. to reveal where Edgar Valdez Villarreal, also known as \u201cLa Barbie\u201d due to his light complexion, was being kept since he\u2019s seemingly disappeared from the U.S. prison register, CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/la-barbie-drug-lord-whereabouts-unknown-mexico-presses-us-answers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States government has to clear it up as soon as possible,\u201d Lopez Obrador told reporters this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to continue asking them,\u201d he added, saying that it was \u201codd\u201d Valdez was no longer on the register since he still has decades to serve on the 49-year-sentence he received after pleading guilty in 2016 to conspiracy to import cocaine, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and conspiracy to launder money. Along with the prison sentence, he was also ordered to pay $192,000 in fines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he is not in prison, you have to see the agreement they made with him because his sentence was for several years. Here in Mexico, there are also complaints filed against him,\u201d Lopez Obrador said. \u201cDo not get ahead of ourselves. We are going to wait to see what is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) website shows that Valdez is \u201cnot in BOP custody,\u201d but a spokesperson from the federal agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/30\/us\/drug-trafficker-la-barbie-not-in-custody\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> CNN there could be several reasons for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInmates who were previously in BOP custody and who have not completed their sentence may be outside BOP custody for a period of time for court hearings, medical treatment or for other reasons,\u201d BOP spokesperson Benjamin O\u2019Cone told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly added that the BOP does not provide specific information on inmate status for incarcerated people who are not in BOP custody for \u201csafety, security, or privacy reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilmer \u201cBuddy\u201d Parker, who represented Valdez during his trial, told CNN he hadn\u2019t heard about a possible release but wouldn\u2019t comment further.<\/p>\n<p>Valdez was born in Texas but rose through the ranks of Mexico\u2019s ruthless Beltran-Leyva cartel, beginning as a marijuana trafficker before he developed a massive network capable of shipping between 150 and 180 kilograms of cocaine regularly into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Through his drug trafficking business, Valdez connected to Joaquin Guzman-Loera, the infamous El Chapo, and became the drug kingpin\u2019s top lieutenant, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>He also worked as a hitman during a mid-2000s turf war between the Zetas and Sinaloa cartels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A notorious drug trafficker serving a 49-year sentence in the United States has reportedly disappeared from the Federal Bureau of Prisons\u2019 online register of inmates. On Wednesday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador asked the U.S. to reveal where Edgar Valdez Villarreal, also known as \u201cLa Barbie\u201d due to his light complexion, was being kept &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1758706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}