Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s Former Safehouse is Now Mexican Lottery Prize
How would you same to win a two-bedroom house with stunning views of the Sierra Madre, courtesy of the Mexican lottery? Only I careful owner. He fled the belongings inward 2014 through a series of tunnels as to a great extent armed Mexican marines shut inward on him.
Yes, former drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s safehouse is now a drawing prize.
The house, inward Culiacán, Sinaloa, is useable via the Institute to Return Stolen Goods to the People (INDEP). The organisation decided to offering it on the Lotería Nacional because it failed to sell at auction. Perhaps in that location were more luxurious ex-drug lord properties on the market.
Because according to the Associated Press, the safehouse is modest with “no swimming pool, none of the pompousness that characterizes other narco properties inward Sinaloa.”
Recent Refurb
Having been uninhabited since El Chapo’s daring escape, INDEP told the AP it had been inward to yield it a lick of pigment and make believe the necessary repairs since the marines smashed it up septenary years ago.
They’ve still filled in the hole out below the bathtub that Guzmán slipped through and through to get hold of his secret undergroud labrynth.
Guzmán was the leader of Sinaloa cartel and I of the most powerful drug traffickers in the mankind before he eventually ran out of tunnels and the marines caught up with him. But he gave them a pass for their money.
Just days after they missed him inwards Culiacán, Guzmán was cornered inward another safe domiciliate in the coastal resort hotel of Mazatlan.
But in July 2015, he escaped from prison through a tunnel that had been dug into the drain of the rain shower in his electric cell by associates. He rode a bike on tracks that had been set through and through the tunnel to temporary freedom.
It was the second time he had escaped a maximum-security prison. The number one time, in 2001, he bribed guards and was smuggled come out in a washing basket. It helped that he was only when 5’6”. El Chapo way “shorty.”
Final Capture
On January 8, 2016, he was finally captured after fleeing a shootout with marines at another small safehouse. Emerging from a tunnel around a land mile away, he stole a vehicle at gunpoint, but was intercepted past federal law 15 miles from the scene.
He was extradited to the US, where he was tried on a litany of charges ranging from drugs trafficking with spirit to give out to kidnapping and murder. He was convicted on all counts and sentenced to life in prison house inward July 2019.
His current home is ADX Florence, the most unafraid supermax prison in America.