In this courtroom drawing, Mexican drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, listens to a tape recording was played for the jury at their request,Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, during Guzman's drug trafficking trial in New York. Seated from left are an interpreter, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, defense attorneys Eduardo Balazero and Jeffery Lichtman. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
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NEW YORK (AP) - A jury at the U.S. trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman concluded its second day of deliberations without a verdict Tuesday after jurors sent the judge a handful of notes indicating interest in the kingpin's alleged attempts at diversifying his smuggling operation to include methamphetamine.
One note asked for a reading of testimony about the Sinaloa cartel's efforts around 2005 to obtain ephedrine from Asia to produce meth. The jury also listened to an intercepted 2011 phone call in which Guzman talked about wanting more customers for "ice" in the United States.
In addition, the jury was provided transcripts of extensive testimony by two brothers from a Colombian drug-trafficking clan. The pair of narcos detailed how they used a fleet of private planes to supply tons of cocaine to the cartel during the Colombian-Mexican coke boom the 1990s and 2000s.
The brothers were among 14 cooperators to take the witness stand at trial, including many who described Guzman's willingness to use violence against enemies of the cartel. The defense has accused the cooperators of making him a scapegoat for their own crimes.
The 61-year-old Guzman attained near-mythical status by escaping jail twice in Mexico. He was recaptured and sent in 2017 to the United States, where he has been held in solitary confinement ever since.
He could get life in prison if convicted on multiple conspiracy charges.
FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 file photo, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, center, is escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by Mexican navy marines at a hanger in Mexico City, after he was captured overnight in the beach resort town of Mazatlan. The New York trial of Guzman is drawing to a close, but the question of controlling the corruption that allowed the Sinaloa cartel to flourish in Mexico will live on even after jurors reach a verdict. DEA agent Victor Vazquez told jurors he would only work with the Mexican marines when trying to capture Guzman and other leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, because that wing of the armed forced were viewed as less susceptible to corruption. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
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Jeffrey Lichtman, a defense attorney for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, arrives at federal court in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A jury is deliberating at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Jeffrey Lichtman, a defense attorney for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, arrives at federal court in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A jury is deliberating at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Eduardo Balarezo, a defense attorney for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, arrives at federal court in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A jury is deliberating at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Eduardo Balarezo, a defense attorney for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, arrives at federal court in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A jury is deliberating at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, wife of the infamous Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo" Joaquin Guzman, 61, leaves Brooklyn federal court after a second day of jury deliberations, Tuesday Feb. 5, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Emma Coronel Aispuro, center, wife of the infamous Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo" Joaquin Guzman, 61, leaves Brooklyn federal court after a second day of jury deliberations, Tuesday Feb. 5, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In this courtroom drawing, Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is seated in the courtroom as the jury deliberates drug trafficking charges against her husband, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in New York. A jury at the U.S. trial of the infamous Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo has ended its second day of deliberations without a verdict. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
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