Another brilliant maneuver that should have shocked no one because it had been done previously. Lance LeNoir, a Border Patrol operations supervisor, said: "This one blows past (the second-longest). El Chapo had hopped on a railed vehicle, traversed the tunnel, enjoyed the rush of impending freedom, came up and disappeared. At 8:52 P.M. on July 11th, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, sat on the bed of his cell in Altiplano, Mexico’s only super-maximum-security prison. So far this fiscal year, over 569,800 migrants have been encountered along the Southwest border, most from the Central American "Northern Triangle" countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, as well as from Mexico, officials said. February 25, 2014. An open steel door leads from a tunnel underneath one of the houses of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the city's drainage system in Culiacan, Mexico. The first so-called narco tunnel was built in 1989, by the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. A secret tunnel under El Chapo's bath. El Chapo’s rail-running escape motorcycle sits in the tunnel under the half-built house where authorities say he made it to freedom. The Sinaloa cartel disrupted the traditional drug smuggling approach which bottlenecks at border crossings. U.S. Customs and Border Protection found a well-constructed tunnel that was buried at an average depth of 70-feet under the surface. El Chapo is famous for his two spectacular prison escapes in Mexico, with one in 2015 involving a mile-long tunnel that had been dug to his cell. In … After El Chapo was jailed in the US, rival criminal gangs engaged in a war for control for his infamous drug tunnels constructed under the US-Mexico border, the newspaper Daily Star reported. The man who designed Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán's illicit system of cross-border drug tunnels has been was extradited from Mexico to the United States. When they finally found the end of the tunnel in a storm drain a mile away from where it began, Chapo … He was finally extradited to the US in 2017 to face charges of trafficking cocaine, heroin and other drugs as head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel. Not all of them are active at the same time but they will be available. The elaborate tunnel stretched from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego. A drug tunnel under the Mexico-US border. Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (Spanish: [xoaˈkin aɾtʃiˈβaldo É£uzˈman loˈeɾa]; born 4 April 1957), commonly known as "El Chapo" ('Shorty', pronounced [el ˈtʃapo]) because of his 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) stature, is a Mexican drug lord and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate.He is considered to have been the most powerful drug trafficker in the world. However, he is not the most famous narco to come out of there. The one seminal innovation of el Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel is the drug tunnel. In the Netflix series ‘Narcos: Mexico‘, the Sinaloa plaza is managed by Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, and Joaquin Guzman aka El Chapo becomes one of his most loyal and trusted men. The tunnel surfaced under a cinder-block house in an open field. El Chapo’s tunnel-building legacy lives on; latest one found in Nogales The Sonora municipality is considered the cradle of drug tunnels In one case, he escaped through an entry under the shower in his cell to a milelong (1.6-kilometer-long) lighted tunnel with a motorcycle on rails. (Daniel Becerril/ Reuters) After Felix is sent to prison and the Federation dissolves, Palma establishes the Sinaloa cartel. Authorities have discovered the longest drug-smuggling tunnel on the United States’ southern border. During his second escape, El Chapo rode a modified motorcycle with tracks through a tunnel that connected to a house near the prison. The area in which the tunnel was dug has been a stronghold of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel which was run by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, who was sentenced to life in prison in July. It has been nearly six years since Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman escaped through a tunnel that connected his prison cell in Almoloya de Juarez, State of … Tunnel mastermind behind El Chapo's underground smuggling routes extradited to U.S. ... and even had an elevator hidden under the floor of the warehouse. US border agents found a half-mile-long tunnel under the US-Mexico border and seized a significant amount of marijuana at the San Diego area warehouse where it ended Reuters. Even by the standards of Mexico's drug cartels, the weekend prison break of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was a ballsy move. The shaft is 5.5-feet high and 2-feet wide. A secret tunnel under El Chapo's bath The marines rushed down the stairs knowing the kingpin only had a brief headstart — only to find the tunnel connected to the sewer system of the city. An Inside Look at Drug Tunnels Along the U.S. Border In the wake of the underground escape by drug lord "El Chapo," take a look inside a few of … [Photo Credit: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell] Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Trump was unfazed by Guzman’s threats, saying, “El Chapo and the Mexican drug cartels use the border unimpeded like it was a vacuum cleaner, sucking drugs and death right into the U.S. We get the killers, drugs and crime, and they get the money.” Trump … Mexican police busted a smuggling tunnel run by the drug gang of fugitive kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on the U.S. border stashed with about 10 tons of suspected marijuana, officials said on Thursday. Known as El Gato—the Cat—and also El Viejo—the Old Man—he was thought to work under Chapo and was long suspected of being the mastermind behind many of the Otay Mesa tunnels. Brooks said passing the EL CHAPO Act would “fund border security and a border wall by using billions of dollars in seized drug and blood money profits from drug cartels and drug lords and reapplying those drug forfeiture monies to border security … ALMOLOYA, Mexico --The kind of tunnel that led Mexico's most powerful drug … Mexican police busted a smuggling tunnel run by the drug gang of fugitive kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on the U.S. border stashed with about 10 … Traffickers at the El Chapo trial say drugs aren't smuggled through open parts of the border ... 95% of cocaine was brought into the United States by a tunnel under Arizona's border … The planning for the escape was extensive, prosecutors say, with his wife playing a key role. Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escapes Mexico prison 9 photos. It eventually led to a construction site. U.S. border officials announced the longest-ever smuggling tunnel ever discovered. Surprisingly, this wasn’t Guzman’s debut escape from a Mexican prison. The tunnel El Chapo used was stunning and elaborate, and included lights, air ducts, and even a motorcycle. The tunnel, which ran under the border from the Mexican city of Tijuana, was some 800 meters (2,625 feet) long, the National Security Commission (CNS) said in a statement. Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP A manhunt ensued, eventually leading to a shootout and El Chapo’s capture in 2016. The marines rushed down the stairs knowing the kingpin only had a brief headstart — only to find the tunnel connected to the sewer system of the city. Democrats have consistently refused to fund President Donald Trump’s border wall. ... built its first cross-border tunnel … More than 172,000 migrants were arrested along the Southwest border, CBP officials reported. The Mexican authorities transferred the notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to a prison in Ciudad Juarez on the US border Saturday morning in a surprise move, officials said. It is nearly three-quarters of a mile and 70 feet below the earth. On 11 July, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, the Mexican drug lord and leader of the Sinaloa cartel—arguably the world’s most powerful drug syndicate—escaped Altiplano maximum security prison in Mexico after being arrested in February last year for a second time.. Drug kingpin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped in July 11 through a 1.5-kilometer (one-mile) long tunnel that was dug under the shower space of his prison cell in central Mexico, authorities said Sunday. ... El Chapo… "I imagine that at any one time there are between 10 and 50 tunnels operating. El Chapo is the former leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel.