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unhappycamper

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Thu Oct 22, 2015, 08:34 AM Oct 2015

Mexico: "El Chapo's" accomplices arrested

http://www.dw.com/en/mexico-el-chapos-accomplices-arrested/a-18798675

Six people believed to have aided crime lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's escape from prison have been arrested. Unnamed suspects include the getaway pilot, tunnel expert and brother-in-law of the fugitive.

Mexico: "El Chapo's" accomplices arrested
22.10.2015

Mexican officials say the "principal planner" and five other suspects behind this summer's jail break by the world's most-wanted drug dealer have been captured, Attorney General Arely Gomez said Wednesday.

"Today we are able to affirm that the group responsible for planning, organizing and carrying out the escape from outside the prison has been broken up," Gomez said.

Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, escaped from a maximum security Mexican prison in July through a mile-long (1.5-kilometer) tunnel leading from the shower in his cell.

She confirmed that after the escape, the drug cartel chief traveled overland to the city of Queretaro where officials say he caught a small plane to a mountainous region of Sinaloa, his home state and stronghold.
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