General Attorney of Mexico, Arely Gomez, reported that one of the reasons for the capture of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on Friday was the discovery that the drug lord had initiated contacts with people from the film world to shoot a film.
"An important aspect that allowed ascertaining their position was intended to have discovered Guzman Loera filming a biopic, for which contacted actresses, actors and producers," Gomez said at a ceremony before bringing detainees to media.
In the hangar of the Attorney General's Office (PGR, Attorney) in the Mexico City International Airport, Gomez said that "the follow-up document the meetings allowed lawyers now detained with those people."
About ten hours after President Enrique Peña Nieto announced his capture, Gómez explained some details about the research that made it possible shortly before the prisoner to the press.
After following his track, the fugitive was located in Pueblo Nuevo, northern state of Durango, where in October, before he managed to escape through a gorge, the boss was spotted from a helicopter, but was not killed because he was accompanied by two women and a girl.
"The security institutions intensified intelligence operations, allowing knowledge to late December the intention of the offender to move to urban areas," he said.
Tracking the members of the inner circle of Guzman identified a specialized individual tunneling, who was renovating several homes in Sinaloa and Sonora.
So it could locate an address in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, on which a surveillance operation was mounted for a month.
From January 6th unusual movements were observed, highlighting the arrival of a vehicle the morning of January 7. According to the attorney general, the field work and intelligence gave the assurance that Guzman was there.
After a "timely and effective planning, the early hours of Friday launched an operation by federal forces upon arrival at home were attacked with heavy weapons, which led to a confrontation in which a marine wounded and five attackers were killed, "said Gomez.
In addition, six people were arrested, but Guzman escaped from the drainage system of the city accompanied by his security chief, Jorge Ivan Gastelum Orso Iván Ávila or Gastelum Cruz, "highly dangerous offender also part of the 122 goals priority "of the federal government.
Navy personnel chased by drainage tunnels criminals, who opened a sewer to go to a main road and fled in vehicles, told Gomez.
Thanks to alert carjackings in the vicinity of the area of operation, members of the federal forces began searching units, placing one on the road Los Mochis-Navojoa, where criminals were arrested.
The prosecutor said that "in order to ensure criminals and protect the integrity of the (federal) items, they moved (to detainees) to a nearby motel to wait for reinforcements," hence that initially you handle the version of which had been captured in that establishment.
Soon after the detainees were taken to the airport in Los Mochis and then to Mexico City International Airport.
"I want to inform you that a few minutes they were practiced detainees the examinations necessary for the identification and assessment of their safety in terms of appearance, fingerprinting, genetic, voice, photography, video, graphology and forensic medicine ago," Gómez.
Then the prosecutor announced that Guzman would be "transferred back to the Federal Rehabilitation Center Altiplano Number One" in the town of Almoloya de Juarez, in the central state of Mexico, neighboring the capital.
Guzman was shown to the media in the hangar of the PGR down a military vehicle and being moved by sea to a helicopter in which he left the prison, from which he had escaped on 11 July.