{"id":185784,"date":"2021-09-15T07:08:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=185784"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:45:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:45:47","slug":"el-chapo-former-safehouse-is-now-mexican-lottery-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/el-chapo-former-safehouse-is-now-mexican-lottery-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Joaqu\u00edn ‘El Chapo’ Guzm\u00e1n\u2019s Former Safehouse is Now Mexican Lottery Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, former drug lord Joaqu\u00edn “El Chapo” Guzm\u00e1n\u2019s safehouse is now a lottery prize. The two-bedroom house with stunning views of the Sierra Madre is now available courtesy of the Mexican lottery.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The modest house once owned by drug lord El Chapo, above. El Chapo shown in the inset. The house is now a lottery prize. (Image: AP<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The house, in Culiac\u00e1n, Sinaloa, is available via the Institute to Return Stolen Goods to the People (INDEP). El Chapo fled the property in 2014 through a series of tunnels as heavily armed Mexican marines closed in on him.<\/p>\n

The organization decided to offer it on the Loter\u00eda Nacional<\/em> because it failed to sell at auction. Perhaps there were more luxurious ex-drug lord properties on the market.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The safehouse is modest with \u201cno swimming pool, none of the ostentation that characterizes other narco properties in Sinaloa,” according to the Associated Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

Recent Refurb<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Having been uninhabited since El Chapo\u2019s daring escape, INDEP told the AP <\/em>it had been in to give it a lick of paint and make the necessary repairs since the marines smashed it up seven years ago.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve even filled in the hole under the bathtub that Guzm\u00e1n slipped through to reach his secret underground labyrinth.<\/p>\n

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Guzm\u00e1n was the leader of the Sinaloa cartel<\/a> and one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world before he finally ran out of tunnels and the marines caught up with him. But he gave them a run for their money. Just days after they missed him in Culiac\u00e1n, Guzm\u00e1n was cornered in another safe house in the coastal resort of Mazatlan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But in July 2015, he escaped from prison through a tunnel that had been dug into the drain of the shower in his cell by associates. He rode a motorcycle on tracks that had been laid through the tunnel to temporary freedom.<\/p>\n

It was the second time he had escaped a maximum-security prison. The first time, in 2001, he bribed guards and was smuggled out in a laundry basket. It helped that he was only 5\u20196\u201d. El Chapo means \u201cshorty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Final Capture<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On January 8, 2016, he was finally captured after fleeing a shootout with marines at another modest safe house that’s not currently available as a lottery prize. Emerging from a tunnel around a mile away, he stole a vehicle at gunpoint but was intercepted by federal police 15 miles from the scene.<\/p>\n

He was extradited to the US, where he was tried on a litany of charges ranging from drug trafficking with intent to distribute to kidnapping and murder. He was convicted on all counts and sentenced to life in prison in July 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His current home is ADX Florence, the most secure supermax prison in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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