The United States will seek to extradite Mexican drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman from Mexico, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York said Sunday, a day after the drug lord was captured. 
 
 Guzman, 56, is wanted in six districts in the United States, in addition to charges he faces in Mexico. 
 
 He was arrested Saturday in the resort city of Mazatlan by U.S. and Mexican authorities, following a four- to five-week operation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Mexican Marines. 
 
 Guzman is charged in New York, and authorities there will seek his extradition, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch told NBC News. Other U.S. districts want the alleged drug lord, too. 
 
 The Chicago Crime Commission named Guzman the first "Public Enemy No. 1" since Al Capone, because his cartel supplied most of the illegal drugs sold in the city, according to NBC Chicago. 
 
 "I fully intend for us to have him tried here," Jack Riley, head of the Chicago office of the Drug Enforcement Administration said. 
 
 Guzman’s fortune ballooned to a billion dollars, as the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, which Attorney General Eric Holder said Saturday is “a drug-running empire that spans continents.” 
 
 Guzman's cartel has smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines into the U.S., and fought vicious turf wars with other Mexican gangs. The U.S. had placed a $5 million bounty on Guzman's head. 
 
 U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said he wanted Guzman to be extradited to make sure he remains behind bars, pointing out that the drug lord escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001. 
 
 "It's not just the most significant capture and the arrest of one man, but it bodes well for our efforts to dismantle and unravel the Sinaloa Cartel," McCaul said. 
 
 — Elisha Fieldstadt and Jonathan Dienst 
 
 Reuters contributed to this report. ||||| MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican judge has ruled that drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman can be extradited to face charges in the United States, the country’s federal court authority said on Monday, days after he was moved to a prison near the U.S. border. 
 
 Recaptured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted by soldiers at the hangar belonging to the office of the Attorney General in Mexico City, Mexico January 8, 2016. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo 
 
 On Saturday, Guzman was transferred to a prison in Ciudad Juarez on Mexico’s northern border and a senior Mexican security official said the kingpin’s extradition was in motion and would happen by mid-year. 
 
 Guzman, boss of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, was for years the world’s most wanted drug trafficker until his capture by Mexican Marines in February 2014. He then embarrassed the government by escaping from prison through a tunnel last July. 
 
 The government recaptured him in January and President Enrique Pena Nieto said soon afterwards he had taken steps to ensure Guzman was extradited as soon as possible. 
 
 He faces charges ranging from money laundering to drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder in cities that include Chicago, Miami and New York. 
 
 Juan Pablo Badillo, one of Guzman’s lawyers, said his client’s legal situation was still being processed and that to extradite him now would be a violation of his human rights. 
 
 Badillo listed nine appeals pending against Guzman’s extradition. However, government officials have said in private the decision to extradite the drug lord is essentially a political call dependent on the president. 
 
 A government source said on Monday nothing was likely to happen to Guzman for weeks. 
 
 Mexico’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday that it had received notification of the judge’s decision, adding that once it received the case file, it would have 20 business days to analyze and decide on the matter. The judge’s identity was not disclosed. 
 
 In a radio interview, Eduardo Guerrero, head of Mexico’s federal prisons service, denied Guzman’s transfer was a preamble to extradition, noting that prisoners awaiting extradition go to the Hermosillo jail in northwest Mexico. 
 
 It was not clear why he was taken to Ciudad Juarez, the lowest rated federal prison in a 2015 National Human Rights Commission report on factors including illicit activities and violent incidents. 
 
 Guzman’s cartel is present in the city, fighting a war for control that made it the world’s most murderous town in 2010. Crime has since dropped. 
 
 At 9.00 pm on Friday authorities entered Guzman’s cell at the Altiplano jail in Central Mexico, told him to put on a shirt and pack up his things, placing them in transparent bags, Guerrero said. 
 
 At 1.30 am on Saturday, Guzman was flown by helicopter to Mexico City airport, where he boarded a police plane and flew to Ciudad Juarez. 
 
 Guzman asked once where he was being taken, but was not told until he arrived in the Ciudad Juarez lockup, Guerrero added.
– 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.