The world’s most wanted drug kingpin, Guzman was recaptured last week in northwest Mexico and is now back in the same maximum security prison be escaped from in July via a tunnel that burrowed right up into his cell.
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Grenades were tossed by Mexican authorities inside home, but Guzman escaped capture by dropping down a manhole and entering the city’s sewers, reports Mediate.
Four days after the October 2 meeting with Penn, 25 Mexican Marines raided the ranch at around 10 am, Loret De Mola reported in a Tuesday broadcast from the hideout, code named “Mountain Nest”.
Guzman eventually made his way last week to the seaside city of Los Mochis in his native Sinaloa state, where he was captured in a deadly military operation on Friday.
Local media did not explain how authorities knew at this time that Guzman might be seeking a trademark to make a film.
“This was an nearly obsessive interest that turned into another incentive to go down to the city, where he wanted to meet with her”, the official said, adding that Guzman did not see the 43-year-old actress again. But a federal official said Tuesday that Guzman appears to have been infatuated with del Castillo, apparently referring to her by the code name “Hermosa”, or “Beautiful”.
The same could be said of his safe house in Los Mochis. He cited one extradition case that took six years.
Guzman is regularly being moved to new cells in different floors and a guard is posted in front of it 24 hours a day to prevent him getting away once more.
The clandestine meeting in early October to discuss a Rolling Stone magazine article was essential to finding the fugitive drug lord, Mexico’s attorney general said on Monday.
The script for this “unauthorized” production about Guzman, 58, is the work of former Colombian drug trafficker Andres Lopez Lopez, the network said in a press release.
“What’s being investigated is the actions”.
Asked whether Penn or del Castillo were under investigation, Gomez said a “new line” of inquiry had been opened that could include them or Guzman’s lawyers, and could involve “covering up” for Guzman “or something bigger”.
He said the Government “regrets any acts of collaboration between any citizen and members of organised crime” or that a Mexican citizen “does not share” information that would help arrest a criminal.
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“If during the dinner El Chapo gave them money, or jewels, or he gave them money for the movie or any other transaction, they could be charged with money laundering”, Barragan y Salvatierra said.
