Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was back on Saturday (Jan 9) in the prison he escaped from six months ago after marines recaptured him, in part thanks to his desire to make a biopic.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced the capture of Guzman using his Twitter account: "Mission accomplished: we have him".
Druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested Friday during a violent showdown that ended in five people being killed and a Mexican marine being injured.
Authorities paraded him before journalists late Friday night, then put him on a helicopter. US authorities had offered a $5 million reward for his arrest.
Members of Mexico's navy caught Guzman in an operation about 4:30 a.m. (6:30 a.m. ET) in the coastal city of Los Mochis in Sinaloa state, a senior law enforcement official in Mexico told CNN. "Now let's extradite him to the United States".
"It will be a joint request from all three districts for El Chapo to be extradited to Brooklyn to face the charges in our indictment", said Nellin McIntosh, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn.
Still, many people in towns and villages across Mexico remember Guzman better for his squads of armed gunmen who carried out thousands of brutal slayings and kidnappings.
"Fear me, fore I am the great El Chapo", who looks like he needs a Rambo-style fire-hose shower.
But Senator Miguel Barbosa, a leader of Mexico's leftist opposition Democratic Revolution Party, said Guzman should face trial in his homeland.
Few had thought Guzman would be taken alive, and few now believe Mexico will want to try to hold him a third time in its prisons.
Guzman's July 11 prison break was branded Hollywood-like, because the drug kingpin managed to flee via an elaborate tunnel.
The pair came out of a manhole and stole a auto, but they were captured on a road and taken to a motel, Gomez said.
Jan 19, 2001: Escapes from one of Mexico's two top-security prisons, in Jalisco state, allegedly in a laundry cart. In 2014, he escaped capture by fleeing through a network of interconnected tunnels in the drainage system under Culiacan, the Sinaloa state capital.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the infamous Sinaloa cartel boss, was captured on Friday after an nearly seven-month manhunt - partly because he had dreams of becoming a movie star. Pena Nieto had vowed to recapture Guzman and Mexico detained prison officials and alleged accomplices suspected of helping Guzman escape. He had spent eight years behind bars following his 1993 capture in Guatemala.
Two of the rifles seized were.50-caliber sniper guns, capable of penetrating most bullet-proof vests and cars.
"We will be ready", said Charles Dunne, chief U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of NY.
Some said Nieto wanted to limit US involvement in Mexico's drug war and felt having the United States possibly imprison Mexico's top criminal would be a blow to the country's ego and sovereignty.
CCTV footage of his 11 July escape showed Guzman pacing his cell several times before heading into the shower area and disappearing at the maximum-security Altiplano jail.
