Pilot who helped 'El Chapo' escape captured

October 10, 2015 04:27

Three months later, "El Chapo" remains at large.

But a pilot accused of playing a role in the drug lord's escape is in Mexican custody, Mexico's attorney general said Thursday.

Attorney General Arely Gomez said at a Mexican Senate hearing that the pilot had been captured. But she didn't offer details -- including the name of the pilot and where, when or how he or she was caught.

Thursday was the first time Mexican authorities have said anything publicly about a pilot having a part in springing Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Gomez said 24 people, all but one of them government employees, have been arrested in connection with the July 11 escape. Ten other civilians have been detained.

In addition, authorities have conducted 40 inspections, crafted 522 documents and collected 191 pieces of evidence from the tunnel -- which had lights, ventilation and led directly to his cell -- that Guzman used to bust out of a maximum-security prison.

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