A Mexican minister shut down a Twitter rumor that El Chapo had escaped for a third time in style last night after tweeting an image of the drugs kingpin sitting in captivity.

Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, the Secretariat of the Interior, sent out an image of the Sinaloa boss sitting alone in a bare white room after fake news sites began convincing people he had broken out.

The cartel commander is still being held at the maximum security Altiplano jail, to the west of Mexico City, as he awaits deportation to America on drug dealing and murder charges.

Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior, tweeted an image of a lonely El Chapo sitting in prison after Twitter became convinced that he had escaped for a third time

Despite the rumors of a third escape being unfounded, that did not stop Twitter users from spawning dozens of new memes celebrating the cartel kingpin's jailbreak

El Chapo became the top trending topic in America on Friday night after people became convinced he was on the loose again.

Naturally the internet wasted no time in creating a host of amusing memes celebrating the apparent jail-bust.

While some imagined the tricks El Chapo could have used to distract his guards - telling them their socks are untied or shouting 'look out behind you' - others theorized he might have Jedi mind powers.

One user, Janetta Ocamb, from California, quipped: 'I wish El Chapo would teach me how to escape the Friend Zone.'

Meanwhile Sean Russo, from Florida, added: 'El Chapo making season 5 of prison break by himself.'

While some imagined the simple tricks Chapo used to trick his captors, others imagine that he possessed Jedi mind powers like Rey in The Force Awakens

El Chapo, the head of the billion-dollar Sinaloa drugs cartel, has made a name for himself escaping Mexican jails after breaking out twice over the years.

He was first arrested in Guatemala back in 1993 and brought back to Mexico where he was locked up in the Puente Grande in Jalisco.

He was later indicted on drug charges in California and was awaiting extradition to the U.S. when he bribed virtually every official inside the jail in order to bust out in 2001.

El Chapo, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, was let out of his jail cell and slipped into a laundry basket before being wheeled out of the front doors of the jail and into a waiting car.

Dozens of people, from guards to maintenance workers and even the prison director were eventually implicated in the escape.

Other lamented the apparent ease with which El Chapo seemed to overcome his problems, while they struggled with their own

After a lengthy manhunt he was recaptured in 2014 in a hotel in the beach town of Mazatlán and sent back to jail, this time at Altiplano.

He spent just a year in that jail however, breaking out for a second time in 2015 after members of his cartel dug a mile-long tunnel which came up under his cell shower block.

With guards paid to turn the other way, El Chapo escaped by crawling through the bottom of his shower and into the tunnel, where he used a motorbike affixed to a rail to drive to a nearby building site, where the underground passage emerged.

Guzman did not remain on the run for long the second time, however, and after several near-misses he was tracked to a safe house in the town of Los Mochis in 2016.

Others theorized that the Sinaloa cartel boss was planning a new television series based on his exploits

El Chapo, whose real name is Joaquin Guzman, escaped from jail for the first time in 2001, only to be recaptured in 2014 and break out again in 2015, before being arrested for a third time earlier this year

Mexican marines eventually raided the property, getting into a shootout with El Chapo's henchmen, allowing him to escape down a secret tunnel.

But he only made it as far as a set of sewers where heavy rain forced him to the surface and he was recaptured after trying to steal a getaway car.