Mexican
drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped through a mile-long
tunnel under his prison cell's shower, marking his
second jailbreak and an embarrassing blow to the government.
A massive manhunt was launched after Guzman vanished late
Saturday, from the Altiplano maximum-security prison, some 90 kilometers (55
miles) west of Mexico City.
The Sinaloa cartel kingpin, whose empire stretches around
the globe, had been in prison for 17 months, since his recapture in February
2014.
Guzman's first break from prison was in 2001, when he
slipped past authorities by hiding in a laundry cart.
He had been arrested in Guatemala in 1993 and that
country's troops were put on alert at the border on Sunday.
Marines had recaptured him in February 2014 in a pre-dawn
raid in a condo in Mazatlan, a Pacific resort in Sinaloa state, with the help
of the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Authorities had already investigated a strange prison
visit to Guzman in March, when a woman managed to see him by using a fake ID to
enter the jail.
Culled from Yahoo News.
No comments:
Post a Comment