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Drug lord 'El Chapo' escapes prison using 1-mile tunnel, Mexico says
Source: Chicago Tribune
Drug lord 'El Chapo' escapes prison using 1-mile tunnel, Mexico says
By Tribune wire reports
JULY 12, 2015, 12:03 PM
In a scheme befitting a caper movie, Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1-mile tunnel from a small opening in the shower area of his cell, the country's top security official announced Sunday.
The elaborate underground escape route built allegedly without the detection of authorities allowed Guzman to do what Mexican officials promised would never happen after his recapture last year — slip out of one of the country's most secure penitentiaries for the second time.
Eighteen employees from various part of the Altiplano prison 55 miles west of Mexico City have been taken in for questioning, Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said in a news conference without answering questions.
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It was difficult to believe that such an elaborate structure could have been built without the detection of authorities, though photographs show the facility surrounded by construction, with large open ditches and lots of metal drainage pipes that could have camouflaged such a project. The tunnel terminated in a half-built house in a rural farm field near the prison, according to authorities who cordoned off the structure. Guzman dropped by ladder into a hole 10 yards deep that connected with a tunnel about 1.7 yards high that was fully ventilated.
Guzman is known for the elaborate tunnels his cartel has built underneath the Mexico-U.S. border to transport cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, with ventilation, lighting and even railcars to easily move products.
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By Tribune wire reports
JULY 12, 2015, 12:03 PM
In a scheme befitting a caper movie, Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1-mile tunnel from a small opening in the shower area of his cell, the country's top security official announced Sunday.
The elaborate underground escape route built allegedly without the detection of authorities allowed Guzman to do what Mexican officials promised would never happen after his recapture last year — slip out of one of the country's most secure penitentiaries for the second time.
Eighteen employees from various part of the Altiplano prison 55 miles west of Mexico City have been taken in for questioning, Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said in a news conference without answering questions.
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It was difficult to believe that such an elaborate structure could have been built without the detection of authorities, though photographs show the facility surrounded by construction, with large open ditches and lots of metal drainage pipes that could have camouflaged such a project. The tunnel terminated in a half-built house in a rural farm field near the prison, according to authorities who cordoned off the structure. Guzman dropped by ladder into a hole 10 yards deep that connected with a tunnel about 1.7 yards high that was fully ventilated.
Guzman is known for the elaborate tunnels his cartel has built underneath the Mexico-U.S. border to transport cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, with ventilation, lighting and even railcars to easily move products.
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Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-escapes-20150712-story.html#page=1
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