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AFTER ALLUDING CAPTURE FOR MORE
THAN A DOZEN YEARS, HOW DID
AUTHORITIES NAB EL CHAPO, THE
WORLD'S MOST RUTHLESS DRUG LORD?
FOCUSING ON FIVE WIRETAPS
OFFICIALS TRACKED HIM DOWN TO
THIS HOTEL IN MEXICO.
ALSO ARRESTED, CARLOS RAMIREZ,
HIS ALLEGED COMMUNICATION
CONTINUE WIT WHO AUTHORITIES SAY
WAS CARRYING MULTIPLE CELL
PHONES.
IN THE END, IT WAS A SINGLE
WIRETAP LINKING AUTHORITIES
DIRECTLY TO WHERE HE WAS
STAYING.
ROOM 401.
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS WANT HIS
EXTRADITED TO FACE TRIAL IN THE
U.S.
>> THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS
CONVINCING MEXICAN AUTHORITIES
TO SEND HIM BACK TO THE UNITED
STATES IS HE'S A MEXICAN
NATIONAL.
MOST OF HIS KILLINGS HAVE TAKEN
PLACE ON MEXICAN SOIL AND A LOT
OF MEXICAN FAMILIES WOULD LIKE
TO SEE HIM TRIED AND
INCARCERATED IN MEXICO.
>> Reporter: HE'S KNOWN FOR HIS
EVASIVENESS.
POLICE RAIDED ONE OF HIS
COMPOUNDS WHILE HE WAS STILL
INSIDE.
THE DRUG LORD FLED THROUGH A
SECRET DOOR BENEATH A BATHTUB
DISAPPEARING IN A NETWORK OF
TUNNELS CONNECTING HIM TO HIS
OTHER SIX HOMES NEARBY.
DUBBED PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE,
A TITLE ONCE HELD BY AL CAPONE,
INDICTMENTS HAVE BEEN FILED IN
FOUR STATES.
THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS
THE DRUG KINGPIN CONTRIBUTED TO
THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION OF
MILLIONS OF LIVES.
>> HE ESCAPED FROM A PRISON IN
2001.
THERE IS KRUPS IN THAT COUNTRY.
AND I WOULD ASK THAT THE
MEXICANS CONSIDER EXTRADITING
HIM TO THE UNITED STATES.
>> Reporter: IT'S UNCLEAR IF
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS HERE IN THE
U.S. WILL GET A CRACK AT HIM.
ONE THING TO CONSIDER, MEXICO
DOES NOT HAVE THE DEATH PENALTY