Hunting El Chapo

Chapo Guzmán after his first arrest in June 1993.

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Boarding the DEA Learjet en route to Mexico City in June 2010, carrying the $1.2 million in cash inside FedEx boxes.

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Diego sitting with Mercedes Chavez-Villalobos and her associates at La Rosita restaurant in Panama, June 2009. I took this photo surreptitiously during the undercover operation.

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With the seized 2,513 kilograms of cocaine in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in November 2010.

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Chapo in his signature black baseball cap, toting an AR-15 outside a Mexican ranch several years after his first prison escape in 2001.

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The photo found in a BlackBerry seized at Chapo’s mansion in Cabo San Lucas after his escape from Mexican and DEA authorities in February 2012.

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The card—headed by his initials, J.G.L.—that Chapo sent with flowers to his numerous girlfriends in Culiacán on El Día del Amor y la Amistad (Valentine’s Day).

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The Chicago Crime Commission names El Chapo Public Enemy Number One, replacing Al Capone, in February 2013.

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A diagram I created to show the communication structure of Chapo’s mirror devices.

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Video of Chapo interrogating a man tied to a post under a palapa.

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An overhead shot of Duck Dynasty showing further construction: multiple palapas, a house, and a swimming pool.

Packages of cocaine stored in the tunnel at Safe House 3 along with fake plastic bananas used for shipping the drugs.

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My Google map showing pertinent locations in Sinaloa, including clandestine airstrips throughout the Sierra Madre mountain range, marked with blue plane icons.

My Google map showing the pings of the Top-Tier devices (yellow) and other important targets and locations.

Screens used to monitor the surveillance videos at all of Chapo’s safe houses—located in the garage of Safe House 1.

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Lying down for the first time on my potato sack cot in the makeshift SEMAR “barracks” in Culiacán.

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SEMAR arriving at Safe House 2, making entry in the early morning of February 17, 2014. Taken on my iPhone.

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Brady and me sitting in Chapo’s driveway outside Safe House 3, taking a quick rest before the next raid.

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Several heavily armed subjects were detained inside Picudo’s house.

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Below Safe House 3, in a tunnel lit by fluorescent lamps, large quantities of cocaine were stored on makeshift racks.

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Brady exiting the tunnel underneath the bathtub in Safe House 3.

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Three photos of Chapo taken on my iPhone inside my armored vehicle in the underground parking garage of the Hotel Miramar on February 22, 2014.

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Brady and me moments after the capture at the Hotel Miramar; I’m wearing Chapo’s black ball cap and carrying the AR-15 rifle found in the hotel room with Guzmán.

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Brady and me with Chapo in custody: the world’s most-wanted drug lord during interrogation at the SEMAR base in Mazatlán.

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Chapo paraded in front of the world’s press after he arrived at the Mexico City International Airport from Mazatlán on February 22, 2014.

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The 1.5-kilometer-long tunnel in which Chapo escaped from Altiplano prison on July 11, 2015. PVC pipe pumped fresh air throughout the passageway, and metal tracks had been laid so that Chapo could get away on a railcar rigged to the frame of a modified motorcycle.

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Chapo and Cholo Iván sitting in the backseat of a vehicle after their capture on January 8, 2016, in Los Mochis, Sinaloa.

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Chapo sitting inside Cefereso No. 9 prison in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

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Chapo being extradited from Mexico to the United States on January 19, 2017.

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