El Chapo escaped prison by hiding in a laundry basket wheeled out by a guard with whom he was friendly.On January 19 2001, pint-sized drug lord Joaquin Guzmán bribed a guard to open his cell door in Puente Grande maximum-security prison so he could launch his ambitious break-out.
The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel was jailed in Mexico for money laundering and importing tons of cocaine into California.
El Chapo, 64, used long-range border tunnels to smuggle more drugs into the USA than had ever been done before, but law enforcement finally started to catch up with him in 1993.
Guzmán was extradited from Guatemala to Mexico following his capture but his first prison escape came several years into his 20-year sentence.
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