Five Drug Lords Now At Infamous Brooklyn Prison After Arrival Of 'La Tuta'

Infamous prison MDC Brooklyn is now holding leaders of five top Mexican cartels following the arrival of Servando Gomez Martinez, known as "La Tuta." He is a former leader of La Familia Michoacana and the Caballeros Templarios, taken to the U.S. from Mexico as part of an agreement involving 26 cartel operatives.

"La Tuta" now joins Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the Guadalajara cartel, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, former leader of the Juarez Cartel and Omar Treviño Morales, former leader of the Los Zetas cartel.

Caro Quintero and Carrillo Fuentes entered the prison on February 27, when they were extradited from Mexico along with 27 other prisoners as part of a previous agreement.

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.

American rapper and businessman Sean "Diddy" Combs was also an inmate in the prison as he faced 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.

In late May the facility was added to the network of institutions authorized to detain immigrants under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.

"Detaining people at MDC Brooklyn should be the absolute last option," said Andrew Dalack of the Federal Defenders of New York to the Herald. "We should be focusing on putting fewer people there, and certainly not adding immigrant detainees to the population."