El Chapo snuck into the United States twice while on the run from police.
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán twice visited family in the U.S. after he escaped from Altiplano prison last July. Speaking with The Guardian, the notorious drug lord's daughter, Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz, said her father evaded U.S. Border Patrol officials and snuck into California. While the publication confirmed her identity, her claims have not yet been verified.
Guzmán Ortiz said El Chapo came to America once to visit relatives, and once to see the house he purchased for her and her children. She would not reveal its location as part of her interview agreement.
“My dad deposited the money in a bank account with a lawyer and a while after he came to see the house, his house," she said. "He came twice.”
When asked how exactly he had managed to evade U.S. Border Patrol agents, Guzmán Ortiz declined to comment. "I asked him the same, believe me," she said.
If El Chapo did indeed manage to sneak past border officials not once but twice, it would only add fuel to the fire that is GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's desire to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
