El Chapo's Safe House Will Be Up for Grabs in Mexico's Lottery
The Mexican government will give away drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s safe house in a national lottery, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
The safe house was recently repainted by the Mexican Institute to Return Stolen Goods to the People, and the institute also covered a hole beneath a bathtub which Guzmán used to escape to a network of tunnels, according to the AP.
Officials also took down security cameras that were posted around the entire exterior of the home.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has advertised the addition of seized property to the lottery, the AP reported.
Guzmán’s former home is listed as the “Casa en Culiacán” and is located in Mexico City’s Libertad neighborhood.
The former drug kingpin’s safe house consists of two bedrooms totaling around 2,800 square feet of space, and the government values it at $183,000, according to the AP.
The property was reportedly abandoned and damaged after Mexican marines searched the home in pursuit of Guzmán in 2014.
Guzmán used the tunnels under the home to escape from authorities but was later captured at a coastal condo in Mazatlán, Mexico, according to the AP.
By 2015, Guzmán escaped from two maximum-security prisons in Mexico before he was extradited to the U.S. and tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison in July 2019.
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