GoPro Footage of El Chapo’s Capture Released

Actor Sean Penn says he has “nothin’ to hide”, after published images showed he was under surveillance when he met with the Mexican actress who led him to Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

The federal official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he or she was not authorized to be quoted by name, said the dozens of texts were authentic.

Mexican authorities said a “new line” of inquiry had been opened that could include Penn and del Castillo, and could involve “covering up” for Guzman “or something bigger”. He later asks his lawyers to tell him what movies Penn has appeared in. As seen in the newly released video on TMZ, the troops were heavily armed as they stormed the house.

Guzman has told authorities how he sprinted down a hill from his remote hideaway, which had been guarded with outposts, before meeting up with a bodyguard and going on the run. Del Castillo’s representatives did not respond to email requests to comment on the texts.

Guzman is not the first Mexican drug lord to go under the knife.

Mexico has said it plans to extradite him to the United States, where he is wanted for exporting hundreds of tonnes of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin across the border.

Five of Guzman’s henchmen, including, according to some reports, two women, were killed in the successful “Black Swan” operation which was carried out by a crack team of Mexican Navy specialists in the city of Los Mochis.

Hope cautioned that having leaked the transcripts might give Guzman’s lawyers ammunition to argue the government had violated legal requirements to keep evidence in criminal cases confidential.

Cartel boss Joaquin Guzman Loera, better known as El Chapo, escaped from maximum security prison by crawling through a hole in the floor underneath his shower, and then tunneling a mile underground before finally exiting through a construction site.