When Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escaped from prison in central Mexico on July 11, 2015, the event was quickly regarded as a stunning criminal feat.
It was soon discovered — as shown by the display below, from a new exhibit at The Mob Museum in Las Vegas — that the escape was also a marvel of clandestine engineering, featuring an elaborate tunnel passage designed by engineers trained in Germany specifically to build the tunnel.
Guzmán entered the mile-long tunnel through a 1.5-foot by 1.5-foot hole in the floor of his cell's shower. He then descended a 32-foot ladder into the tunnel, which was 5.5 feet high and 2 feet by 7 inches wide.
Mob Museum, National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement
He traveled through the tunnel — equipped with a motorcycle on a track and an air-ventilation system — to a partially constructed house adjacent to the prison. From there, he traveled back to northwest Mexico, to an area known as the Golden Triangle for its drug production and where he was safely ensconced in Sinaloa cartel territory.
Despite some close calls, he remained on the run until January 8, when Mexican military and police forces caught up with him in a city not far from where he was born in Sinaloa state.
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