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CAPTURED HIM HAD SOME
SIMILARITIES TO THE BIN LADEN
OPERATION.
6:40 A.M., JUST BEFORE DAWN ON
SATURDAY, IN WHAT'S 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 AK-47 NEXT TO THE
BED.
WHEN THE MEXICAN MARINES ENTERED
THE CONDOMINIUM, HE WAS STILL
ASLEEP.
HE WAS SURPRISED AND HE DID NOT
HAVE A CHANCE TO REACT AND SEIZE
HIS WEAPON.
>> MICHAEL IS A FORMER SENIOR
DEA OFFICIALS WHO WAS BRIEFED ON
THE RAID.
A MEXICAN OFFICIAL TELLS US THAT
THE MARINES KNEW THAT GUZMAN AND
HIS BODYGUARD WERE ASLEEP
BECAUSE THEY USED INFRARED
EQUIPMENT TO DETERMINE THAT THEY
WERE STILL SLEEPING.
DAYS EARLIER, OPERATIVES IN THE
CARTEL YIELDED A TROVE OF
INFORMATION ABOUT HIS
WHEREABOUTS WHICH OFFICIALS
SHARED.
>> A HIGHLY EFFICIENT OPERATION,
USING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE AND
TRACKING DOWN CELL PHONES AND
ZEROING IN ON A PARTICULAR
LOCATION.
>> Reporter: JUST BEFORE HE GOT
TO MAZATLAN, MEXICAN MARINES
RAIDED ONE OF HIS HOMES IN
CULIACAN.
OFFICIALS SAID IT GAVE GUZMAN
ENOUGH TIME TO ESCAPE UNDER A
TUNNEL BETWEEN THE HOUSES IN
CULIACAN.
HE WAS ABLE TO USE THAT AND THE
CITY'S SEWER SYSTEM TO ESCAPE TO
MAZATLAN.
BUT AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE,
THE MAN KNOWN FOR AIR-TIGHT
SECURITY HAD GOTTEN SLOPPY.
>> BY THAT TIME I THINK HE WAS
PROBABLY PANICKING KNOWING THAT
THIS WAS A LARGE FRONTAL ASSAULT
ON HIM AND THAT THERE WAS A
POSSIBILITY THAT THEY WERE GOING
TO CATCH UP WITH HIM.
SO HE WAS PHYSICALLY EXHAUSTED.
>> MEXICAN OFFICIALS TELL US
GUZMAN IS NOW IN ISOLATION IN
THE BASEMENT OF A MEXICAN
PRISON.
THAT HE'S UNDER SURVEILLANCE
24/7.
HE'S BEING KEPT AWAY FROM THE
GENERAL PRISON POPULATION.
WOLF?
>> WE ALSO HAVE NEW INFORMATION
ABOUT HOW PREOCCUPIED HE WAS
WITH HIS OWN SECURITY.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
WE'RE HEARING THAT HE LIVED THIS
ROBIN HOOD EXISTENCE WHEN HE WAS
ON THE RUN FOR MANY YEARS,
GIVING TO THE LOCAL POPULATION
BUT ALSO BEING PROTECTED BY
THEM.
THE SORT TORY IS, WHEN HE WOULD
INTO THE RESTAURANT, THE
RESTAURANT WOULD SHUT DOWN WHILE
HE WAS THERE.
NO ONE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO
LEAVE.
ALL OF THE CELL PHONES WERE
TAKEN AWAY FROM THE PATRONS, HE