Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the infamous Sinaloa cartel boss, was captured on Friday\u00a0after an almost seven-month manhunt\u00a0\u2014 partly because he had dreams of becoming a movie star.<\/p>\n
Over the course of his time\u00a0on the lam, the drug kingpin contacted producers and prospective actors to star in a biopic about himself, according to AFP.<\/p>\n
“An important aspect that allowed us to locate him was that we discovered Guzman’s intention to make a biographical film, for which he established contact with actresses and producers,” Mexico’s attorney general, Arely Gomez, told the AFP.<\/p>\n
After a morning shootout with Mexican marines in Los Mochis, a city in his native Sinaloa state, Guzm\u00e1n was arrested along with six others, the Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n
The successful mission comes on the heels of a botched operation in October, where Mexican forces decided not to fire on an escaping Guzman, fearing they would injure a young girl who was accompanying him, according to the AFP.<\/p>\n
Guzman will be held at Altiplano, the very same prison he escaped from in July,\u00a0according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
He will likely be extradited to the US, Alejandro Hope, a former Mexican intelligence official,\u00a0told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
The US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, released a statement calling Guzman’s capture a “blow to the international drug-trafficking syndicate he is alleged to have led.” Lynch said he will now “have to answer for his alleged crimes, which have resulted in significant violence, suffering and corruption on multiple continents.”<\/p>\n
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Source: bussinessinsider.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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