As if El Chapo Guzmán's whole live-life-like-it's-a-critically-acclaimed-AMC-series thing wasn't already going so well, a Mexican newspaper is now reporting that two of the guards tasked with watching El Chapo lied to investigators in their original account of the escape. The guards, Carlos Sanches Garcia and Jose Daniel Aureoles Tabares, initially claimed that their computer monitors froze just four minutes before El Chapo swiftly exited the prison. However, according to NBC News, a judge's assessment of the security footage posits that the screens never froze but were instead turned off before, during, or shortly after a round of solitaire:
This latest revelation also includes a detailed account of various additional "missteps and delays" from prison officials, ultimately leading to El Chapo's successful escape:
To quickly recap El Chapo's increasingly cinematic existence, this is a guy who escaped prison on two separate but equally well-publicized occasions before indirectly (?) threatening one Donald Trump as the consistently flabbergasting details surrounding his most recent prison break continue to pile up.
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