in 1993 when he was arrested back then, he said he was just a farmer and didn t know what drugs were. in 2001, he bribed guards which wasn t that tough to do in one of mexico s high security prisons, and apparently he was let go by putting him in a laundry cart, putting dirty laundry on top of him, and then wheeling him right out the front door. he was free until 2014 when he was recaptured in mazatlan. then he escapes again just last year, the 11th of july, from mexico s other top security prison. a tunnel, kate, that was one mile long, it had a motorcycle on rails. said it cost about a million dollars just to do that tunnel that you re seeing right there, and he escaped. to be caught last friday in this operation that you saw here and
problems in clinton county last summer, maximum security prison we had a couple of murderers escape. but i imagine it s different in some of these facilities. i mean, listen, every penal institution is different. and what i can tell you and what i do know is that fci florence, our supermax prison in the bureau of prisons, no one has escaped from the place and i don t believe anyone will. i can assure you that that s where chapo will be housed. they will have to pump sunlight to him and he will not tunnel out of that place and he won t leave in a laundry cart like in 2001. it s 4:30 in the morning in this mexican town. tell the viewers about how did this thing happen? it s right out of a movie, i imagine. oh, certainly.
of what transpired the last time, i can tell you that the united states marshal service will keep basically him in a specific area where they can monitor everything. i would assume the provisional warrant will allow them to transport him quickly. he will go in front of a imagine strags for extradition. i would assume at this point that the extradition will be granted. because he is a mexican national, he can t fight. extradition, but in this case because i believe he s such a high profile fugitive, that extradition will be granted fairly quickly. i think it s worth getting into the details. . people are hearing el chapo and they know it s a mexican king n kingpin. not only did he escape from a prison in 2001 hiding out in a laundry cart, just recently it was just last july he was in this maximum security prison in
the video that was pretty elaborate, and he goes into the shower stall, and then all of the sudden, goes down and disappears and goes through a tunnel, and gets out of what was then a maximum security federal prison in mexico, and he has been on the run since july, and he broke out of another maximum security prison in 2001, and hiding reportedly in a laundry cart, and they arrested him after 13 years on the run. he was 13 years, and he has a lot of money from the drug, and i legal drugs, so the fear is that if he is sent to jail in mexico, a third time now with all of that money, and all of the cash, h he is going to be finding a way to escape. yes, and one of the specialties has been as the inventor of tunnelling under the u.s. border that essentially, he has the construction personnel and expertise to do another tunnel, and, you know, again, that is the last tunnel was about a mile long out of that prison, and no one in the prison heard any conare vuk shun or noises, and they were
low what, according to the associated press. then he broke out of another prison after rolling out in a laundry cart. he stays in the shadows. he has 150,000 people on the payroll. although few have ever met or seen him. he dresses like a priest or army officer. it is believed he has had multiple plastic surgeries. here in the united states he is chicago s public enemy number one. although it is believed he has never been to chicago. that s pause of all the drugs he has pumped into the city. and forbes over the years has named him several times one of the most powerful people in the world. this comes as the united states has a $5 million reward out there for any information that leads to his arrest. uma? all right. well, thank you very much . reporter: you bet. astronaut scott kelly boldly going where no one has gone.