After making such a daring tunnel escape from a prison cell
back in July, it would be kind of funny if the thing that led to the recapture
of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was a monkey.
We'd heard the Mexican
drug lord was nearly captured about a week ago when authorities closed in on
him in a remote mountain region of his home state of Sinaloa, and that El Chapo
sustained injury to his face and leg as he narrowly got away.
What we didn't know until now was how the police had found
that mountain hideout. The Telegraph is now reporting that it was by tracking a
pet monkey that belonged to El Chapo's 4-year-old daughters.
The daughters had reportedly been forced to leave behind
their pet monkey, Boots, when El Chapo broke out of prison and his family left
the home where they had been living to reunite with him in Sinaloa. But those
daughters, who were understandably upset because having a pet monkey sounds
awesome, wanted their monkey back.
Here's where someone screwed up. El Chapo sent people to
retrieve Boots, but for some reason they filed the proper legal documents to
get a permit allowing the monkey to be taken on an airplane -- strangely by the
book behavior for a international drug cartel. It was through these documents
that police figured out that the monkey was traveling in El Chapo's
brother-in-law's Ford Mustang.
Police tracked that car, and closed in on El Chapo, yet
again, but weren't able to capture him. We're still not sure if Boots the
monkey escaped or was arrested during the raid.
Among those who were arrested this past week: 23 prison
officials, the "alleged mastermind" behind the July prison escape and
El Chapo’s brother-in-law, suspected of assisting in the construction of the
escape tunnel and organizing transportation.
Culled From complex.com
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