How El Chapo’s narcissism led to his capture: Fugitive drug lord was nabbed after contacting actors to make Narcos-style BIOPIC about his rags-to-riches life… as he returns to jail he escaped from
Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loera was apprehended in a pre-dawn raid on a motel in Los Mochis, Mexico
He was tracked down after he contacted producers and actors to make a Narcos-style biopic of his own life
Hideout was around 1,300 miles from the jail he escaped from in July last year after fleeing through a tunnel
El Chapo escaped from police through a sewer but was caught and arrested still wearing filthy tank top he fled in
Five cartel gangsters were killed and six others arrested in the raid, which also left a Mexican marine injured
Vast arsenal of weapons including rocket launchers, machine guns and armored vehicles was seized
US drug enforcement officials and US Marshals helped capture El Chapo and his right-hand man El Cholo
The drug lord had been on the run since July, when he staged a daring escape from Mexico’s most secure prison
Incredibly, he was sent back to Altiplano jail overnight after being bundled into a helicopter by Mexican soldiers
El Chapo is also wanted in the U.S. for several drug trafficking charges but it is not clear if he will be extradited
By Hannah Parry and Ollie Gillman and Ashley Collman
Dailymail.com
9 January 2016
Notorious drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has finally been recaptured and returned to the same maximum security jail he broke out from six months ago after authorities were tipped off to his whereabouts when he tried to make a film of his own life, according to Mexico’s attorney general.
The cartel leader’s narcissism appears to have been his downfall after he began the process of making a biopic, similar to that of Netflix’s popular Narcos show on the life of infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, following his escape from the Altiplano jail last July.
El Chapo, which means ‘the short one’ in Spanish, had even started to contact producers and actresses through intermediaries to tell his ‘rags to riches’ story, which was what finally helped police track him down. The names of the stars he approached have not yet been confirmed.
He was arrested on Friday after a 4am raid on a house in the town of Los Mochis, located in the kingpin’s home state of Sinaloa, which saw him once again escape from the clutches of police.
The cartel leader and an accomplice fled from agents through a filthy sewer, before emerging into the street where they stole cars and took off. But authorities were able to catch up with them and the cartel leader was brought back to a nearby hotel while police waited for back up, Gómez said.
In a picture of his arrest at the hotel, El Chapo is stood still wearing the dirty tank top, which showed off several fresh scratches on his arms after his sewer escape.
Despite tunneling out in July, Mexican marines returned him to the Altiplano jail – considered to be the most secure prison in the entire country – earlier today. Until El Chapo, no-one had ever successfully escaped from the facility.
Washington, which requested his extradition last June before his escape from jail, is almost certain to seek extradition since his recapture. The drugs lord faces at least seven indictments in the United States.
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