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The Lord of the tunnels of Chapo Guzmán leaves the United States prison

José Sánchez Villalobos, alias el Señor de los túneles del Chapo Guzmán.
José Sánchez Villalobos, alias the Lord of the tunnels of Chapo Guzmán.

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For: Real America News Updated 28 Apr 2022, : 52 pm EDT

The United States released José Sánchez Villalobos, known by his nickname of “Lord of the tunnels”, who helped Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán escape. , founder of the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS) , from a Mexican prison of maximum security in July 2015. The narco-tunnels were also used to cross drugs in the border of Mexico to the United States. Sánchez Villalobos worked as an engineer and architect for Chapo Guzmán, he was in charge of supervising the construction of the famous tunnels of the drug trafficker.

He was sentenced to pass 121 months in prison, that is 10 years. However, as part of an agreement, the US government agreed to tell him the years he had been imprisoned in Mexico, so the sentence ended in March of this year. pic.twitter.com/uCLGMTEde3

— Laura Sánchez Ley (@LauraSanchezLey) April 15, 2022

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According to an investigation by journalist Laura Sánchez Ley for the newspaper Milenio, there are official documents that show that the Prosecutor’s Office of the Southern District of California sentenced him to spend 10 years in prison; even the US authorities agreed to take into account the time he spent in detention in Mexican territory. This means that he has already served his sentence and a month ago he was released.

“The Federal Bureau of Prisons assured that up to now they have not been able to locate Sánchez Villalobos in federal prisons in their records. In such a way that the man has paid for his crime, however his whereabouts are unknown, ”explained the journalist Laura Sánchez Ley on her Twitter account.

The famous tunnel and its engineering

The night of 15 in July, Chapo Guzmán escaped through a tunnel that connected his cell, in the Altiplano maximum security prison, with a vacant lot in the center of the country; this was built by Sánchez Villalobos, it measures 55. 7 feet tall and 28.4 inches wide. It had ventilation, electricity, wooden supports. Guzmán Loera toured the tunnel on a motorcycle driven by a hitman; When he left, another narco was already waiting for him with an ATV, who took him to a warehouse.

In January 2016, El Chapo was recaptured and a year later extradited to the United States, where he is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison. His wife, Emma Coronel is also imprisoned in that country, after pleading guilty to having helped El Chapo plan shipments of shipments of drugs

to US territory.

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