Photos purporting to show El Chapo Guzmán after escape surface

This photo purportedly showing El Chapo Guzmán after his Saturday night escape were published by ElBlogDelNarco.com on Sunday. If verified, the photos would be the first for surface of the famed drug trafficker since his escape. THESE IMAGES MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE CONSENT AND CREDITING OF ELBLOGDELNARCO.COM. less This photo purportedly showing El Chapo Guzmán after his Saturday night escape were published by ElBlogDelNarco.com on Sunday. If verified, the photos would be the first for surface of the famed drug ... more Photo: El Blog Del Narco Photo: El Blog Del Narco Image 1 of / 29 Caption Close Photos purporting to show El Chapo Guzmán after escape surface 1 / 29 Back to Gallery

Less than two days after the escape of El Chapo Guzmán from a maximum security prison in Mexico, photos of the world's once again most wanted drug trafficker surfaced on ElBlogDelNarco.com – one depicting the Sinaloa founder in an aircraft, and the other showing Guzmán enjoying a beverage in a seemingly public place.

The photos were sent to the site by one of Guzmán's sons and alleged to be taken just after his escape, an individual who works with the blog told the San Antonio Express-News in an email.

If verified, these images would be the first of the famed cartel leader to surface after he escaped through a one-mile tunnel from the Altiplano prison, about 50 miles west of Mexico City.

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Officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration refused to comment on the photos Monday morning.

Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA, told the Express-News in a phone interview Monday that there is no way to indisputably confirm the photographs, but that Chapo's only likely escape plan from the area would be via aircraft.

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Still, many questions surrounding the photos, which were published on the blog Sunday afternoon, remain.

“I don't think (his son) would leak those photos because that could be used to try and apprehend Chapo, and that would be circumventing his planned escape,” Vigil said.

El Blog Del Narco released a statement Monday morning indicating their servers had been attacked, issuing blame to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration.

The website was down for a few hours but came back online Monday afternoon.

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See the intentionally leaked photos above, followed by photos of the tunnel Chapo escaped from.

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