They weren’t exactly living the high-life on the run (Picture: Getty Images)

New pictures have emerged of the grubby apartment El Chapo was hiding out in – and it looks like he played with Duplo and Hot Wheels.

The drug lord, real name Joaquin Guzman, was caught on Friday months after he’d tunnelled out of a high-security prison.

Mexican authorities busted through the doors of his apartment at 4am.

The images reveal the less-than-luxurious lifestyle he was leading while on the run.


Sure, he was living with his family (and possibly young children in tow), but we like the idea that you can run a multi-million dollar drug empire and still have an unquenchable passion for toy cars and building blocks.



Let’s take a look at the evidence:

See that? Definitely Hot Wheels in the corner (Picture: Getty Images)

And that Duplo by the mirror? 100% El Chapo’s (Picture: Getty Images)

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The pictures were released as Mexico said it was willing to extradite El Chapo to the United States.

Top officials in the party of President Enrique Pena Nieto also floated the idea of extradition, which they had flatly ruled out before Guzman’s embarrassing escape from Mexico’s top maximum security prison on July 11.

‘He has a lot of outstanding debts to pay in Mexico, but if it’s necessary, he can pay them in other places,’ said Manlio Fabio Beltrones, president of Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party.

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But even if Mexican officials agree, Guzman’s attorney Juan Pablo Badillo told the Milenio newspaper that the defense already has filed six motions to challenge extradition requests.

‘They can challenge the judge, challenge the probable cause, challenge the procedure,’ said Juan Masini, former U.S. Department of Justice attache at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico. ‘That’s why it can take a long time. They won’t challenge everything at once… they can drip, drip, milk it that way.’

Nice wife-beater, El Chapo

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The drug lord was ridiculed after his arrest for sporting this dirty wife-beater.

The world wasn’t buying his fashion statement and, well, the memes happened.

El Chapo ? pic.twitter.com/Be8GJaxaOK — Bitch, Im MOTHA doll (@1poeticdrugs) January 9, 2016

Primer meme de #ElChapo que veo bueno. pic.twitter.com/Tj5JuNcrns — Dulce de leche (@PincheRobeJrJr) January 9, 2016

El Chapo out here with that new yeezy season $800 shirt pic.twitter.com/a1i0yY63fx — Growing up Mexican (@TheMexicanVines) January 9, 2016

Based on the beer and bikini poster it looks like El Chapo was hiding in a college dorm room #ElChapo pic.twitter.com/aBSW7yfE8m — Joel Rose (@Joel_Rose_) January 9, 2016

He had a different ensemble for the catwalk:

“El Chapo” Guzman paraded in front of cameras before being taken back to the same prison where he escaped pic.twitter.com/tLTwegqeyu — Jon Passantino (@passantino) January 9, 2016

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto confirmed his capture on Friday.

He tweeted: ‘Mission accomplished: We have him.’

Misión cumplida: lo tenemos. Quiero informar a los mexicanos que Joaquín Guzmán Loera ha sido detenido. — Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) January 8, 2016

Mi reconocimiento al Gabinete de Seguridad del Gobierno de la República por este importante logro en favor del Estado de Derecho en México. — Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) January 8, 2016

El Chapo has been captured (Picture: PA)

El Chapo’s arsenal was discovered after his arrest

A member of Mexican Navy Force points with his weapon into a sewer during his arrest

The drug lord managed to escape from a maximum security prison through a mile-long tunnel last summer.

Embarrassed officials said the tunnel opened into the shower block.

They found a ladder down a 2ft by 2ft wide, 30ft metre deep hole that led to the tunnel.

A lot of work went into the tunnel which was about 5ft 7ins meters high and 2ft 7ins wide and opened up at a building site a mile from Altiplano Federal Prison.

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The Mexican Navy said in a statement that marines acting on a tip raided a home in the town of Los Mochis before dawn.



They were fired on from inside the structure. Five suspects were killed and six others arrested. The marine’s injuries were not life-threatening.

At the home marines seized two armored vehicles, eight rifles, one handgun and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

Photos of the arms seized in the raid suggested that Guzman and his associates had a fearsome arsenal at the non-descript white house.