Mexico arrests 13 in connection with Chapo escape

It added that the investigation would continue with the goal of prosecuting all individuals who directly participated in or aided and abetted Guzman’s escape, the statement read.

The detainees include the former national coordinator of the federal prison system, Celina Oseguera, and the erstwhile technical director of the penitentiary in the central state of Mexico where the escape occurred, Librado Carmona Garcia, sources with the AG’s office told EFE Friday.

Guzman, who is also wanted in the United States for drug crimes, escaped from Altiplano prison on July 11 through an elaborate hole dug in a shower stall and a mile-long tunnel equipped with a motorcycle, lights and ventilation.

Ms Oseguera was removed from her high-level post after Guzman escaped on 11 July.

Six days after the escape, seven prison workers were charged and four officials, including two members of Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional, CISEN, Mexico’s intelligence agency, were charged for their alleged roles in the jailbreak.

Earlier this month, a photograph presumably showing Guzman in Costa Rica circulated across social media.

The picture he posted appeared to be from a restaurant in Costa Rica. All 13 were employees of the federal prison system.

Guzman was imprisoned in February 2014, and his latest escape wasn’t the first.

One point of controversy has been whether the Mexican government should have agreed to a U.S. request to extradite Guzman on the basis that American prisons would have been harder for Guzman to break out of. In that breakout Guzman hid in a laundry cart.

The drug lord’s summer escape was a major embarrassment for President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration. There is a $3.8m reward for information leading to his arrest.