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Jun 8, 2014 - At least one of them may be connected to the Hells Angels. ... City with the help of a green-coloured helicopter, Quebec provincial police said.Son of 'Mom' Boucher, Hells Angels ex-chief, breaks out of Quebec jail
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Jun 8, 2014 - Three prisoners, deemed extremely dangerous by police, have broken out of a Canadian jail in a helicopter, local media reported, the second ...Footage of the Moment El Chapo Escaped
Closed-circuit video shows the moment Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, disappeared from his cell. Additional video shows the tunnel he used to escape.
By Reuters on July 15, 2015.Photo by Reuters. Watch in Times Video »
MEXICO CITY — To plot his escape from the most secure prison in Mexico, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, is believed to have relied on countless little birds to whisper information into his ear and help whisk him to freedom.
Now, it appears that at least one of them was an actual bird.
Government officials visiting Mr. Guzmán’s cell after his breakout discovered the body of a small bird sitting in his trash can. The bird, they believe, was used to test the air quality of the subterranean tunnel through which Mr. Guzmán vanished, according to an official helping to coordinate the manhunt.
Officials have even given the little bird a name: “Chapito.”
Among the many marvels of the kingpin’s escape, now comes what may have been the old-fashioned use of a bird to determine if the air was breathable in the tunnel, which ran for about a mile and was as deep as 30 feet.
Like coal miners who used canaries to detect dangerous gases like carbon monoxide, the thinking goes, the architects of Mr. Guzmán’s tunnel wanted to ensure that their boss did not pass out on his long walk to freedom.
It was only one of many signs of the attention to detail: the tunnel had lighting, a motorcycle on rails to transport the displaced earth and oxygen tanks. The designers even built the tunnel high enough so that Mr. Guzmán, whose nickname means “Shorty,” could walk out while standing.
Amazingly, the escape happened while a camera was watching over Mr. Guzmán.
Surveillance video released by Mexican government officials on Tuesday shows the moment of Mr. Guzmán’s brazen escape, as he casually walked across his cell, crouched over and disappeared through a hatch in his shower.
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How Mexico’s Most-Wanted Drug Lord Escaped From Prison (Again)
See the route that Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a drug kingpin known as El Chapo, used to escape from Mexico’s most secure prison.
Mr. Guzmán, leader of the multibillion-dollar Sinaloa Cartel, had evaded prison for 13 years before he was captured last year by the American and Mexican authorities at the seaside resort of Mazatlán,Mexico. He is notorious for ordering the construction of tunnels both to transport drugs and to evade the authorities.
In the video, he is seen bending behind a barrier meant to give prisoners privacy while showering — and then he is gone.
The government is engaged in a widespread search to recapture Mr. Guzmán. The head of the maximum security prison has been fired, as have a host of other officials involved with the nation’s prison system. The head of intelligence for the federal police has also been fired. And more than 40 guards and staff members at the prison are being questioned.
“It’s kind of like a joke,” Carl Pike, a retired Drug Enforcement Administration official told The New York Times on Tuesday. “ ‘Gee, a tunnel. Who would have thought?’ It’s kind of a no-brainer.”
American officials have offered a wide variety of aid to help in the manhunt for Mr. Guzmán, including drones, marshals, even a special task force.
But officials on both sides of the border say that the Mexican government has kept the Americans at bay, without responding to the offer of help, confounding law enforcement officials and stalling efforts to recapture Mr. Guzmán.
Examining Tunnel Used by Drug Lord
Mexico’s attorney general toured a building on Sunday at the end of the tunnel used by the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, to escape from a maximum-security prison.
By Associated Press on July 13, 2015. Photo by Reuters. Watch in Times Video »
Mexican officials, who spoke Tuesday night about the prison video, said they had found nothing odd or out of the ordinary about Mr. Guzmán’s behavior before his flight.
But moments after Mr. Guzmán passed through the opening in the bathroom area, he vanished from the video feed, the prison and Mexican custody — for the second time.
By some accounts, the last time Mr. Guzmán escaped, in 2001, he hid in a laundry cart.
Mr. Guzmán is perhaps the best-financed fugitive in the world. Forbes magazine once estimated his wealth at nearly a billion dollars. With the resources and loyalists available to him across the country, his recapture will be a tall order.
The government has deployed hundreds of people across the country to monitor roads, airports and transit hubs.
United States Drug Enforcement Administration documents show that the agency warned Mexican officials 16 months ago about an escape attempt, immediately after Mr. Guzmán was caught, according to The Associated Press.
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Where did Amy Schumer get her sense of humor?
"I think it was the divorce and my dad getting sick that were the wonderful gifts that made me the strong angel you see here today," the 34-year-old writer and star of Universal Pictures' Trainwreck laughingly tells Mo Rocca in an interview for CBS Sunday Morning With Charles Osgood, airing July 5.
The comedienne was joking, sure, but she wasn't exactly lying.
Born in New York City, Schumer's family was financially secure for years. But when she was 12 years old, her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. After going bankrupt, the family moved to Long Island, and later, her parents got divorced.
How did the TV star cope?
"I love to laugh. I seek laughter all the time. I think that's something that also comes with having a sick parent is you don't know what's going to happen and so I'll be like, 'I'm psyched my legs still work,'" Schumer tells Rocca. "And I want to, like, experience all I can and make as many memories as I can."
That said, Schumer's father is never far from her thoughts.
When it comes to dating, she admits, "It affects your relationships for sure. Everybody I meet and I'm like, 'Yeah, he's cool, but would, like, would I push him in a wheelchair? You know, would I want him to push me?' So, yeah, I go there pretty quick. Other people are like, 'Should we go to Hawaii on vacation?' I'm like, 'Do I want you to change my colostomy bag?' It just changes your perspective."
This isn't the first time Schumer has opened up about her father's diagnosis.
Speaking to Morning Edition's David Greene for NPR in 2013, Schumer said, "It's the most painful thing in the world to just watch this person that you love ultimately just digress and kind of decompose. And it's too heavy and you have to find a way to laugh at it. I will on stage go to a very dark place and make light of things that are painful. And it makes me feel better to hear about other people's struggles, so I like to share mine."
Schumer said her father is "just as hilarious" as he ever was. He lives in an assisted facility, she added, "and when I go see him, it's not heavy. He's happy." The Inside Amy Schumer star said her dad is "so proud" of her success, saying, "They got Comedy Central for him at his hospital so they can watch my show. And the doctors and nurses know who I am now. Because I think, before, the people who were around them, he kind of didn't know how well it was going for me. He just kind of...I think he thought I was like a clown...I think he thought I did birthday parties."
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