It’s no wonder that the trial of the Mexican drug kingpin known as El Chapo — the biggest drug trial in United States history — drew celebrities and tourists and reporters from around the world to a Brooklyn courtroom for the last three months.

On Tuesday, a jury convicted El Chapo, whose real name is Joaquín Guzmán Loera, of leading a “continuing criminal enterprise” — the Sinaloa cartel — that earned him over $14 billion.

[Read the full story on the verdict.]

Why Brooklyn: El Chapo was indicted in New York in 2009 on charges stemming from a series of drug-related contract killings in Queens in 1993. The seat of the federal court district that includes Queens is in Brooklyn.

Welcome: After multiple escapes, El Chapo was finally extradited from Mexico in 2017. “Bienvenido á New York,” an American agent told him as his plane touched down.

El Chapo was held in a high-security jail in Manhattan. To get him to the federal courthouse in Downtown Brooklyn, the police sometimes shut down the Brooklyn Bridge, stalling traffic.