Guzman’s infatuation with actress led to downfall

In this January 8, 2016 image released by Mexico’s federal government, Mexico’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, stands for his prison mug shot with the inmate number 3870 at the Altiplano maximum security federal prison in Almoloya, Mexico.

The Marines are seen blasting their way through the house in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, exchanging heavy gunfire with Guzman’s henchmen, five of whom were killed in the raid.

Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was recaptured within Mexico’s Sinaloa state early on Friday, six months after he escaped from the country’s most secure prison facility.

Actor Sean Penn may or may not be subject to prosecution stemming from his secret meeting with convicted drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, legal experts tell PEOPLE. Mexican authorities said such contacts led them to Guzman’s hideout.

Penn has been largely silent since Rolling Stone published his 10,000-word account of meeting with Mexico’s most wanted man, but CBS “This Morning” co-host Charlie Rose said Tuesday that Penn had agreed to an interview with him. “I don’t want to throw any other actors under the bus, but I know a lot of very, very serious actors and filmmakers who’ve been having meetings like this forever”, actor Matt Damon said.

In the interview in Rolling Stone, Guzman defended his role as the head of the world’s biggest drug-trafficking organization, blamed for thousands of killings.

His crimes in Mexico would fill entire volumes, but that nation has been unable to hold him.Guzman escaped from prison in Jalisco in 2001.

In the end, the interview Guzman wanted might have cost him his freedom.

It took the Mexican authorities at least 90 minutes to find the passageway, a senior law enforcement source told CNN. Guzman and his security chief traveled several blocks through the 3-foot (meter) tall storm sewer before popping out in the middle of an intersection.

Guzman’s July 11 prison escape, his second in the past 14 years, was a major embarrassment for the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto, which had been praised for its aggressive push against Mexico’s top drug traffickers.

Penn, in an article published by Rolling Stone magazine on Saturday, said Del Castillo had been in contact with Guzman and arranged the meeting.

The actor says he has “nothing to hide” after the Mexican government has confirmed they are investigating the celebrity for his interaction with the criminal.

“Over there you can see how the cans burst from the force of the grenades”, an official from the attorney general’s office pointed out in the kitchen.

During his previous 17 month stint behind bars, Guzman asked his lawyers to begin the process of trade-marking his name with the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola said. Guzman and another man escaped the raid.