Mexican authorities release El Chapo booking video, escape animation

Dylan Stableford
·Senior Writer

Earlier this month, Mexican authorities released dramatic footage of the deadly raid that ended in the capture of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in Los Mochis, Sinaloa state, where heavily armed gunmen stormed a house in which the world's most notorious drug lord was hiding.

On Wednesday, they released the comparatively boring sequel: El Chapo's booking video.

In it, we see the recaptured kingpin being fingerprinted and photographed after he was taken into custody on Jan. 8. El Chapo is also seen giving a blood sample from his finger before posing for his mugshot.

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Curiously, the 58-year-old drug lord — who escaped from a maximum-security federal prison in July — is not wearing handcuffs in the footage, which was released by the Mexican attorney general's office.

Mexican authorities also released a new animated video that re-creates El Chapo's brazen prison break. The digitized animation shows Guzmán slipping through a hole in the shower of his cell at the Altiplano prison and out through an elaborate, 1,600-yard underground tunnel that included a makeshift railroad powered by a motorcycle.

Guzmán is being held in the same prison while awaiting extradition to the United States, where he faces charges for murder, kidnapping, drug trafficking and organized crime. But both Mexican and U.S. officials say the extradition process could take a year or more.