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| Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán |
World's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin El Chapo Guzmán who escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico six months ago, has been re-arrested and detained by the Mexican government. His audacious escape from prison last July saw him dash through a mile-long tunnel system which led to a building under construction next to the prison - from where he collected clothes left for him by his conspirators.
Shortly before El Chapo was re-arrested a certain actor named Sean Penn had visited him at his hideout in the jungle to ask him a handful of Hollywood-worthy questions such as 'do you dream?' and 'how would you define yourself?'
And then just hours after the Sinaloa cartel leader was detained by Mexican marines, the Rolling Stone published a lyrical 10,000-word account of their meeting.
The sensational meeting between Penn and El Chapo took place deep in the Mexican jungle in October and was arranged by Penn, Mexican actress Kate del Castillo and a fixer, with the permission of the Sinaloa cartel.
El Chapo admitted in the bizarre interview to being the biggest drug trafficker in the world and said he sent engineers to Germany to learn how to build the tunnel he would eventually use to escape a maximum security prison.
In an article written by Penn for Rolling Stone, El Chapo says: 'I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world. I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats.'
Penn's sensational interview for Rolling Stone almost saw the world's most wanted drug lord captured in October - just days after he met Penn - but a raid had to be aborted because El Chapo was with two women and a child.
The cartel boss was eventually captured on Friday in a daring 4am raid by Mexican marines and was returned to Altiplano jail. The double Oscar-winning actor's meeting with El Chapo led to the gun battle in which he was captured, an official said. The Mexican Army intelligence unit intercepted electronic communications between Penn and El Chapo closed the Mexican military's net and led to an aborted raid days later. It was called off because the wanted man was in the company of two women and a child.
The double Oscar-winning actor and del Castillo - who had been in direct contact with El Chapo after his escape from the Altiplano jail - are now under investigation by the Mexican authorities.
The U.S. has filed at least seven extradition requests in six different states for Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to be extradited but justice officials warned that his lawyers were likely to 'milk it' by firing off different appeals at different stages of the extradition battle to prolong the legal tussle.
While Penn did not tell the authorities of El Chapo's whereabouts, his extraordinary interview led Mexican marines to his location.
El Chapo was caught after contacting actors and directors about making a Narcos-style biopic about his life, Mexican officials said. It is not clear whether Penn was contacted about the movie.
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| The meeting in Mexico was arranged by Penn, Mexican actress Kate del Castillo (pictured with Penn and musicians) and a fixer |
Graphic photographs taken inside the kingpin's compound show bodies strewn across the blood-stained floor following the 4am firefight on Friday.
Five of the notorious Sinaloa cartel were slain by marines and six were arrested, but El Chapo made another of his infamous escapes, slipping out through a sewer system with his right-hand man El Cholo Ivan.
Hours later they were both detained at a nearby motel in the town of Los Mochis and El Chapo has been returned to the same maximum security prison he fled from six months ago.
Locals in the seaside town said no one had been living in the gated, heavily guarded property until the night before the gun battle, when a black pickup truck arrived outside the two-story home. The bloody pictures appeared to show all five of the drug baron's lieutenants who were killed in the gun battle with Mexican marines on Friday.
All of the dead are seen lying in pools of blood next to heavy machine guns used to fight off the military as El Chapo slipped out through a drainage system, only to be captured hours later.
A vast arsenal of weapons was seized, including loaded rocket launchers, rifles, semi-automatic weapons, grenades and armored vehicles.
Despite the huge cache of firearms, only one marine was hurt and did not suffer life-threatening injuries.
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| Penn shakes hands with Bolivian president Evo Morales at the presidential palace in La Paz in 2012 |
El Chapo managed to escape Friday morning's raid at the compound on Friday morning with his most-trusted hitman known as El Cholo, but were caught hours later by federal police officers as they tried to flee north after stealing a car.
While waiting for back-up, the cops took the two men to sex motel, where El Chapo was handcuffed to a bed, The Guardian reported.
In a room that costs 300 pesos ($16.72) for six hours, he was detained on a satin bedspread, with sex toys and lubricants sat on a bedside table.
Culled from DAILY MAIL
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