DEA got info about possible 'Chapo' escape plan, passed it to Mexico

July 15, 2015 01:22

US Drug Enforcement Agency agents received information suggesting that relatives and associates were working on plans to break drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman out of prison, a law enforcement official told CNN Tuesday.

On Saturday, the Sinaloa cartel leader escaped from the maximum security prison in Almoloya de Jurez. It is believed he stepped into a shower, crawled through a hole and vanished through a mile-long tunnel apparently built just for him.

The information the U.S. officials heard isn't uncommon, the law enforcement official stressed, adding that they had no specific details about an escape but, as is routine, passed along what they knew to Mexican authorities.

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