As security measure, El Chapo to be moved from cell to cell

January 13, 2016 23:30

Beginning Sunday, captured drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will be moved from cell to cell as a way to ensure that he won't escape a Mexican prison, a senior Mexican government official told CNN on Wednesday.

He is being held at Altiplano prison in Almoloya de Juarez -- the same prison he escaped from in July.

Guzman managed to get out of the maximum security facility, authorities said, by making his way down a hole underneath the shower in his cell. They said he then hustled into a tunnel that had been constructed to include ventilation and lighting.

He jumped on a motorcycle attached to rails and zipped out of the lockup. It was the second escape from a Mexican prison for the man responsible for untold carnage related to his billion-dollar illegal drug empire.

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