He was willing to kill whoever he needed to kill. The drug lord, el chapo. The most wanted fugitive behind osama bin laden. Everybody said no one will ever catch him. But he and this team did in the most astonishing way surprise you . I couldnt believe it. Tonight, the american agent who helped capture el chapo comes out of the shadows. I didnt know who wed be able to trust. Exclusive details of this whiteknuckle manhunt. We jump out of the back of that helicopter, pure chaos. Pictures seen here for the first time. Secret drug dens. Hidden escape routes. Hes like Harry Houdini. Every single time you got close, chapo would escape. It was beyond imagination. To catch the bad guy, you gotta become the bad guy. Youre inside this reallife thriller. This is it. Hes there . Hes there. It was like living a movie he was hiding somewhere in these forbidding mountains. Or in this sprawling city. Or in this sunsplashed beach resort. Somewhere. Somewhere in mexico. He was the mostwanted drug lord i
The american agent who helped capture el chapo comes out of the shadows. I didnt know who we would be able to trust. Exclusive details. We jumped out of the back of that helicopter, pure chaos. Pictures seen here for the first time. Secret drug dens, hidden escape routes. Hes like Harry Houdini, every time you got close, he escaped. To catch the bad guy, you have to become the bad guy. Youre inside this reallife thriller. This is it. Hes there . Hes there. It was like living a movie. Hello and welcome to dateline. He was the infamous king pen who inspired fear among criminals and Law Enforcement on both sides of the border. His name was el chapo. For over a decade, he evaded authorities by disappearing into a secret network of tunnels built under his many safe houses. But one man was determined to capture the fugitive and would lead his team to Great Lengths to get the job done. Heres lester holt with inside the hunt for el chapo. Reporter he was hiding. Somewhere in these forbidding m
We begin with extraordinary new information on the daring raid which led to the arrest of the worlds most notorious drug kingpin after 13 years on the lamb in mexico. His nickname is el chappo or shorty. Our brian todd has the inside story on how they got the man called el krcchappo. U. S. And mexican authorities have been after him for over a decade. Dea Officials Say hes responsible for at least 25 of the drugs entering the u. S. 85 of the drugs in chicago. One mexican official told me, quote, he is our bin laden and were hearing the raid that captured him had some similarities to the bin laden operation. 6 40 a. M. , just before dawn on saturday, in whats described as a surgical operation, an elite unit of Mexican Marines burst into this apartment in maz zat lan, mexico. They find the most wanted druglord, joaquin guzman, laying shirtless next to his beauty queen wife. He had an ak47 next to the bed. When the Mexican Marines entered the condominium, he was still asleep. He was surpr
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. One of the most notorious drug kingpins in the world could soon be at the center of a tug of war. Today, lawyers for Joaquin Guzman began to try to prevent his extradition from mexico, where he was arrested over the weekend, to the United States where hes wanted on a slew of charges. But mexico is showing no inclination to turn him over. Tomorrow, a mexican judge is expected to start the process of bringing him to trial. Tonight, bob orr has new information about how snitches, wiretaps and intercepted phone calls helped the authorities get shorty. Reporter Joaquin El Chapo guzman the reputed head of the Sinoloa Cartel had eluded capture for 13 years after escaping from prison in a laundry truck in 2001. But his fugitive run ended saturday in this modest hotel on Mexicos Pacific coast. U. S. Law enforcement played a crucial role developing fresh intelligence in t