The american agent who helped capture el chapo comes out of the shadows. I didnt know who we would be able to trust. Exclusive details. We jumped out of the back of that helicopter, pure chaos. Pictures seen here for the first time. Secret drug dens, hidden escape routes. Hes like Harry Houdini, every time you got close, he escaped. To catch the bad guy, you have to become the bad guy. Youre inside this reallife thriller. This is it. Hes there . Hes there. It was like living a movie. Hello and welcome to dateline. He was the infamous king pen who inspired fear among criminals and Law Enforcement on both sides of the border. His name was el chapo. For over a decade, he evaded authorities by disappearing into a secret network of tunnels built under his many safe houses. But one man was determined to capture the fugitive and would lead his team to Great Lengths to get the job done. Heres lester holt with inside the hunt for el chapo. Reporter he was hiding. Somewhere in these forbidding mountains. Or in this sprawling city. Or in this sun splashed beach resort. Somewhere, somewhere in mexico. He was the most wanted druglord in the world, implicated in hundreds of murders. And finding him became the Dangerous Mission of this man and a team of u. S. And mexican Law Enforcement agents. I am pretty sure ive never started off an interview with a question im about to ask you, but you were chasing only really bad people with really long memories. What are you doing talking to me in front of these cameras . I originally started out under an ail use. Reporter for the first time ever, this former dea agent was coming out of the shadows, despite fears for his life. The dangers are real, right . I have to watch my back the same way. Is it a coalculated risk . It was time to step up and be proud of what i had done, what my team had done. Reporter his name is drew hogan. Facing the odds, he and the team put their lives on the line to stalk an elusive prey. We go inside drews hunt, as he pursues el chapo from safe house to safe house. And finally comes face to face. Its not just a story about one man. Its larger than that. Its two countries coming together and accomplishing something that everyone thought was impossible. He resouncounts that journey his book, hunting for el chapo. In the book, he changed the names of some people and places. We blurred the faces of others who are still working in the field, because for all of them, danger lurked around every curve in the road. Youre always going to have that in the back of your mind. But its what you do with that fear. Reporter what he did was obsess over el chapos whereabouting. It was nontop. I would dream about it. Reporter drew hogans International Odyssey started far from mexicos narco killing fields. A small town in the midwest where he played High School Football and dreamt of going into Law Enforcement. Your first shot carrying a badge was as a local sheriff deputy . Correct. One day i was with a buddy of mine, a police officer, and he said why dont you just go into chicago and test for the dea. Reporter the dea, the United StatesDrug Enforcement administration. He joined in 2007 at age 25. His new job brought him to a border city in the southwest United States. His first order of business was to learn about the mexican narco culture, which included songs like a ballad by el chapo. As my mentor was translating to me, i started to understand what was behind these songs. They really connected the dots for me, kind of whos who in that world. Were these modern kday outlaws . Absolutely. And chapo was at the top. El chapo, real name. Joaquin el chapo guzman. He was named public enemy number one for the tons of drugs sold on the streets oh of the u. S. Drews coauthor, doug. Chapo was a ruthless and mudderous guy. Lets not sugarcoat that. He was the guy that could deliver huge amounts of cocaine. He invented the narco tunnel. Reporter the narco tunnels burrowed underneath the u. S. Mexican Border that they use to smuggle drugs into the u. S. His rise from poverty to running one of the most powerful drug se send cats on the planet, made him a folk hero in mexican culture. He is a little boy that sold oranges on the streets and rises from nothingness. Cant read or write. And hes a billionaire. Thats extremely captivating as a mythology for poor working people in an impoverished country. Reporter he started in the drug trade in the 70s and arrested in 1993. But el chapo was a able to run his cartel from a mexican prison for eight years. Then in 2001, his legend grew, when he escaped, hidden in a laundry cart. The way he escaped was like a movie. Reporter julio has covered mexicos drug cars and el chapo for years. Him being able to embarrass authorities is what made him i mean, its pure gold for a legend, right . El chapo was the master of bribery. He spent millions a year secr secretly doling out crash to every branch of the Mexican Government so officials would turn a blind eye to his criminal enterprise. With el chapo, the reality is, more than 200,000 people have died because of this war on drugs. And more than 20,000 people have disappeared. Reporter el chapo remained free for yeergs and seemed untouchable by the time drew hogan joined the d, p ea. There had been so many failed attempts over the years. But u. S. And mexican agents never gave up on capturing el chapo. A 30year veteran, derek moss ran the special operations division. And oversaw his agents efforts to bring him to justice. Even know they were unful in the sense of capturing el chapo, they were successful in developing intelligence, the knowledge of how these cartels were operating. Drew hogan and diego first joined the job. When did he get on your radar . It would have been 2010. Into 2011. Where we started moving cartel money. Reporter they worked as part of a task force. Diego was a local detective, not a federal agent like drew. These are photos taken during their operations. Diego passed himself off as a bigtime operator, as drew coordinated behind the scenes. By doing this, they were risking their lives. You guys were playing the role of money launderrers. Right. Diego was posing as a covert criminal network that had access to airplanes and trucks and yachts. We could move millions at a time. And tons of drugs at any point. That was our sales pitch. Reporter that was their pitch and they were successful. For instance, see those fedex boxes . They contained nearly 1. 2 million destined for el chapos operations. Drew and dee yag iego were gett inside the belly of the beast. Coming up were you reading their texts . Every sixle one of them. 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By 2011, dea agent drew hogan was part of the hunt for drug kingpen el chapo. Drew and his Task Force Partner diego infiltrated el chapos cartel. These are photos of their undercover operations. They acted as money launderers. And each step of the way, they found a new target to exploit, leading them closer to the top. As diego and i landed at a new location, we would immediately hit the streets. We would go out that night into the different bars and hotels and clubs to try not to look like agents. Exactly. Reporter they were playing a very dangerous game. And drew was becoming obsessed. Obsessed with tracking down el chapo. Drew felt he went as far as he could in the u. S. He needed to immerse himself south of the border. He made a decision to move to mexico city with his young family. I talked with my wife extensively. She knew everything we were getting ourselves into. She said, what is your dwut telling you . I said to go, to go. Lets do it. Reporter leaving die yag di in the states, drew and his family arrived in mexico, stalking one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. Its like, whos watching me . It could be anybody, from chapos people to the local cartel around mexico city, to the street thugs or even the Mexican Government. Reporter he worked in a cluttered cubicle in the u. S. Embassy in mexico city. During long days and nights, he barely saw his family. Drews attention was focused on the Mountain Range far to the west. Its known as mexicos lawless land. El chapos home base. The mexican tastate, the bigges city there, the reputed narco capital of mexico. And el chapo essentially owned the town. It would be like in the heyday of prohibition when al capone owned chicago, for somebody to come in and throw handcuffs on capone. They would get shot. Reporter it was a place where those who died were played in ornate tombs to stand as reminders of the danger that engulfed the city. The city is completely controlled by drug cartels. Reporter but drew was relentless. Just before he arrived in mexico, he came been a treasure trove of evidence. El chapo had left his safe haven in mexico for this mansion in cabo san lucas. It was raided by mexican Law Enforcement. El chapo got away, but there were key scraps of paper, notebooks and phones left behind, with phone numbers that drew could target. You cant just target the man himself, you have to target his entire inner infrastructure. That means his pilots, his facilitators, wives, girlfriends, his sons, down to his maid and his cook. But it began with his two most trusted pilots. Reporter pilots who would swoop el chapo in and out of his hideouts under cover of darkness. It was a big discovery. Drew learned an agent from Homeland Security investigations back in the states, who he calls brady, had also uncovered the pilots numbers. Reporter he said, oh, my god, this could be a gold mine. And we just began following the intelligence back and forth. Him in the states and me in mexico. Reporter they knew el chapo usually didnt carry a phone himself but was always with and underling who did. So they thought if they could track the phone of el chapos closest associates, they would find el chapo himself. But making it more difficult is el chapo kept changing what are called burner phones, used a short time and then tossed away. Dont you have to go back to square one . If they drop them at the same time, yes. But theres hundreds of people at the same time, and theyre not all dropping their phones at the same time. That was their weakness . Right. Its not registered in anyones name. How were you able to identify them . Through the names they were using in the communications. Reporter it was a big mistake. Drew and the team could track them. And the Cartel Operatives had no idea. They didnt seem those could be intercepted. Were you reading their texts . Every one of them. Could you tell where they were coming from and whether you were seeing communications directly from el chapo. Yes. It took us a while to infiltrate this mirror structure they had. A ladder of phones belonging to el chapos underlings, climbing to the third tier, the second tier and so far. You cracked the code. Correct. It was a high point in the sear. After years of hunting, el chapo was in their sights at last. Coming up chapo knew instantly. Somebody was corrupt. Drew hogan smells a rate and makes a move. We had to go into Enemy Territory and root them out. A bold strike with dead lly stakes. Something is not right. When dateline continues. S. When dateline continues with advil, you have power over pain, so the whole world looks different. The unbeatable strength of advil. What pain . To switch to jackson hewitt. 100 reasons for you say goodbye to your old tax service and get 100 when you file with jackson hewitt. Plus, youll get our lifetime accuracy guarantee. So maybe its more like 101 reasons. Get your coupon code at jacksonhewitt. Com and get 100 today. All the way out here just for a blurry photo of me. Oh, thats a good one. Wait, whats that . Thats just the lowbattery warning. Oh, alright. Now its all, check out my rv, and, lets go fourwheeling. Maybe theres a little part of me that wanted to be seen. Well, progressive helps people save when they bundle their home with their outdoor vehicles. So theyve got other things to do now, bigfoot. Wait, whatd you just call me . Bigfoot . My name is daryl. This is the base of operations for el chapos cartel. And in 2013, the fortress for the worlds most dangerous drug lord, el chapo. By tracing the burner phones used by el chapos underlings, the deas drew hogan was zeroing in on his target. All that mattered throughout this entire time was his location. Where was he at . Thats the only question i wanted answered. As you realize you were build thing ladder potentially to el chapo, what was that like . And youre reading the messages . Piecing together daytoday structure of his organization, his daytoday operations. Must have been an eye opener. Like reading a novel that you couldnt coput down. The city was a strong hold for the cartel. So you had the information, but what could you do with it . Once i knew he was there, i had to find another location. He was going to be far too dangerous to go in there and root him out. We thought it would be a blood bath. And then a break. Christmas eve 2013. Obsessed with his mission, drew hogan once again sacrificed time with his family to continue the hunt. He worked with brady, his colleague from Homeland Security investigations back in the states. Together, they tracked phones of el chapos closest associates, knowing el chapo would most likely be with him. And plotting their locations on google maps. We had seen him come down to a remote location, and we were trying to pin point it. But after hours of searching on google maps, we found it. Reporter it was a location where they saw tiny shelters in the middle of nowhere. El chapo was camped out at a place known for duck hunting. Where he would come down, meet with his most trusted lieutenants or his sons, just for a few hours, and then head back to the city. Once we had that location, it was our x, and i nicknamed it duck dynasty. Reporter he knew el chapo was venturing outside his fortress city. This was the best shot they may ever have. He and his partners pushed their superiors, and a decision was made they would grab el chapo at duck dynasty. So now you have him in your sights, but im assuming this is not an operation you can pull off by yourselves. No, we cannot do anything as the United States government without the host nation. From the beginning, i didnt know who we would payable to trust with this. I hadnt shared anything with the Mexican Government. Im the only unit that i could do that with, that i had some level of trust was, was the Mexican Marines. Theyre the elite . Theyre the elite. Reporter samar, the Mexican Marines, had a sterling reputation for integrity and the ability to keep a secret. But this time, something went wrong. As soon as we met, i provided chapos location and this duck dynasty location to them. But the second they moved resources up there, chapo knew instantly. You saw that in your intercepts . Yes. How did you feel . Devastated. The team had been betrayed. But no one knew who did it or why. You still wanted him. Was plan b to refocus on the town . The heat around duck dynasty deterred him from coming out. He stayed holed up where he spent 90 of his time there, and he wasnt coming out. Its the last place you want to have to go get him. Right. Brady had flown to mexico to join drew in person. The clock was ticking. Because of the lead, el chapo knew Something Big was about to go down. The team had no choice. We had to make a move. And that move was to go into Enemy Territory and root him out. The task force later is approved a bold action, to do what they didnt want to do and strike at el chapo in his forches city. You went in with the Mexican Marines. Once again, you had to trust them. Right. Reporter drew was recording on his cell phone as the operation began. This particular operation in february of 2014 was the first time that the Mexican Marines had ever done an operation on the ground in this area. Because of the danger and the compromises and the risks involved. Reporter laser focused on that mission, drew, brady and the team narrowed down el chapos location to a one block radius. But they needed the right house. Reporter so we sent our teams down there, and they spent 24 hours in that city alone, trying to pin point that door. Drew and the rest of the team waited at a nearby military base for a call to come in that el chapos location had been pointed. In the meantime, fear hung in the air. Rumors and tex messages were flying among the people who lived there. The city is lighting up. Its on fire. The lookouts all throughout the city were alerting everyone that something is not right. That there are people in the neighborhood that dont belong. They were right. The Mexican Marines were about to pounce. Coming up inside el chapos lair. I spent in his bed, ate the food out of his ridge ray for. A drawjoping stash, a tum under the tub. When dateline continues. E tub. When dateline continues. Want to brain better . Unlike ordinary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. Memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. Try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. Its a like, a dagger . A worm a tiny sword . Bread. Breadstick . 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Agents was on the ground determined to strike before he could escape again. Here again is lester holt with inside the hunt for el chapo. Reporter february 16, 2014. As drew was waiting at a military base 150 miles away, members of the mexican u. S. Team had entered the hornets town in search for king pen el chapo guzman. They had been on the ground, exposed for 24 hours. And still hadnt located the exact safe house el chapo was holed up in. So i got a call from the ground team, and they said look, this isnt working. Everyone is tired, hungry, were exhausted. Reporter time was running out. Weve got one option left. El chapos most trusted courier, go find him. Reporter they did, and sure enough he flipped on his boss. And agreed to lead them to el chapos five safe houses. A squad of more than 50 Mexican Marines and u. S. Agents warmed the area. Drew and brady flew in from the base with another consin geting Mexican Marines. Perfect. He is done. Reporter what followed was a tense cat and mouse game. As the Mexican Marines raided safe houses throughout the city in search of their prize. The first message that comes in from my guy says, chasm as everywhere. The place is a fortress. Reporter drew understood that when he and brady arrived at a safe house. I see the steel reinforced door, taken the marines 10, 15 minutes to get through that door. Reporter these images revea operation and his life underground. Like these fake green bananas that drew says the cartel filled with cocaine and smuggled across the border. He also found tons of drugs and scores of weapons, including el chapos prized possession, this hand gun with his initials on it. Thats drew holding it. And drew uncovered another of cha chapos signature items. You write yourself that you help yourself to one of his hats . I did. I found one going through a safe house up in the closet. That was my only souvenir of the hunt. What was your impression of the safe houses . I was surprised. He afforded himself no sucksries. Walmart style plastic tables. And there was Something Else all the safe houses had in common. Every single one of them had a tunnel underneath the bathtub, which connected to the city suer system. Reporter when they saw the tums, they knew. Hes gone. Dont know where hes at. It was a crushing blow, tunnels, el chapos trademark, accessed by a secret switch that activated d activated hydraulic lifts under the bathtub. Here is video of drew and brady. El chapo was long gone. No sign of him. It was time to regroup. Drew and the team waited, exhausted, and on edge, they spent four days continuing to dismantle el chapos criminal network from win. You slept in one of his beds. I did. We needed somewhere to stay and the marines turned them in to their bases. We went to the kitchen and ate the food off of his refrigerator. I popped open a beer out of his fridge. It was almost like, you know, i had become him in a way. Reporter but el chapo was cunning, and elusive. Mentally, had you almost caught him at that point . Yes, were so close. I can taste it. Coming up we locked eyes for a split second. At last, the hunter and the hunted come base to base. Every single time you got close, Joaquin Guzman would escape. Who had the ace up his sleeve this time . When dateline continues. When dateline continues. I am totally blind. And non24 can make me show up too early. Or too late. Or make me feel like im not really there. Talk to your doctor, and call 8442342424. Like rock, reggaeton, alland techno. Get ready for the drop. Wait for it. Wait for it. Come on man hit me wait for it. Just do it already one more time yeah. Drug enforcement agent drew hogan and Mexican Marines had been so close to catchi ining e chapo dpguzman, but he had escaped. The trail had not gone completely cold, however. Figuring el chapo fled with someone he trusted, the dea, armed with information from another case, tracked the cell phone of the king pens chief enforce her. Picuto had driven at a high rate of speed from culiacan, turned around and came right back to culiacan. Youre see bring the location of that phone is . Yes. And you see it go from culiacan to another place quickly and then return . Right. No other mission other than to take el chapo to safety. Right. Reporter the famous beach resort on the mexican coast that attracts thousands of u. S. Tourists a year. It was just a twohour drive from culiacan. Drew hogan and a team were ready to go. But they needed a plan first. We couldnt take 300 marines down there. He would know we were coming in an instant. Reporter instead, they would sneak into thety under the radar of el chapos vast network of lookouts. We would buy civilian clothes, tshirts and shorts and flipflops and were tourists. Trying to not look like an invading army. Reporter right. We all left at different times. Reporter they still didnt know where el chapo was holed up. Were about halfway there, and hsi finds that new top tier number. And we ping it from the back seat, and its on the coast. What is it pointing to . A place called miramar in the middle of the city. Like this is it. This is where hes at. Reporter they had tracked el chapos top tier underling to this apartment building, me miramar. We set the operation for 5 30 in the morning. Reporter more than a decade of collective investigative work had come down to a predawn raid in the tourist heart of the city. The whole team, suited back up in military gear. Tell me how it went from that point. We came in right to the front of the hotel, got ut. The marines began filtering inside, and i was standing out front in camouflage, we aring a black sea mask. At this time, i had chap s black ball cap on my head. Reporter they determined el chapo was likely holed up on the fourth floor. Knowing he and his bodyguards were most certainly armed, they were worried it would turn into a firefight, catching civilians in the deadly cross pyfire. I was worried about our perimeter. So if i wanted to stay outside draw watched, the Mexican Marines had begun to make their entry. Reporter thats when i heard the excited radio chatter. I ran up and he said, what did they say . Theyve got the target, him. Him, el chapo. Drew had spent four years hunting him. He had weathered the danger, had sacrificed countless hours with his family. And now, finally, he was about to come face to face with the object of his obsession. Drew drove his armored car into the garage. Youre about to pick up el chapo. Right. I run over into him and i jump into his face and the first thick that comes to my mind, whats up, chapo . And his eyes bulged out of his head and we locked eyes for a split second. They put him into my vehicle in the back seat. Thats when i told him to turn and and look at me and took a couple of pictures, and that was it. He was done. As i listen to you tell the story, i find myself shocked that this wasnt a blood bath. In fact, there were no shots fired at all, were there . None. Surprise you . I could not believe it. I mean, we could have ended up in a gun fight at every door. Every raid. Driving around every corner. And it didnt happen. A mexican marine helicopter met the convoy and picked up their prize catch, flying him to a nearby military base. Yeah, baby drew and brady recorded their celebration on drews phone. This is how we do it back at the base, drew again pulled out his phone. Here he is with brady, thosing next to a blind folded el chapo. And drew caught a few moments of el chapos interrogation by the Mexican Marines. Mexican marines. Reporter hard to believe, but here is the worlds most dangerous drug lord complaining about his teeth. And with el chapo finally in custody, there was one person drew wanted to talk to his wife. I hadnt talked to her in days. And i grabbed my phone and i sent a quick text and i said, i got him. And she writes back, no way and i said yeah, im coming home. Job is over. That was it. Tonight, the worlds top drug lord is in custody after decades on the run. Reporter the news of el chapos capture reverberate around the world. To grab Joaquin Guzman after years of a man hunt, hes like the Harry Houdini out there, evading Law Enforcement. Every time you got close, he would escape. So it was amazing. Reporter drew flew back to mexico city. Mission accomplished. But then, the unthinkable. Coming up i just felt a wave wash over me. One more houdini move and one wild last stand. When dateline continues. When dateline continues and here we have another burst pipe in denmark. If you look close. Jamie, are there any interesting photos from your trip . Ouch, okay. 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I expected to be doing cartwheels up and down the hall, just astatic. But i wasnt. Reporter he could not understand why he was suddenly depressed. I felt like i was placed at dea to do this, and once it was done, that was it. Time for me to go. Reporter eight months later, special agent drew hogan walked away from the dea and left mexico with his family. He got a job in the private sector. And that was supposed to be the end of the story. Then 17 months after el chapos capture i was in the back seat of a taxi cab in rome on my way to the airport headed to new york city to meet with my literary agent about this story. When my wife sent me a text and writes c is out. He just escaped. Or prison again. Drews head was spinning. I just felt a wave wash over me in the back seat of that taxi cab, not knowing what was right any more. It was i couldnt believe it. He was always one ten ahead. Reporter turns out it was all caught on tape. Mexican authorities installed a Security Camera in el chapos cell as a precaution. You see el chapo just walking back and forth, inside the cell. And then he tops everything and disappeared out of the frame and thats when he left. Reporter as the world learned, El Chapo Escaped through a tunnel tug right under the prison and up into his cell. The job to retake him was now in the hands of the Mexican Marines, and virtually the same group of u. S. Agents, minus drew. But this time they werent starting from scratch. They understood his organization and the network. They understood the movements. He wasnt as clever as he thought. Reporter learning from and building on the 2014 play book, the mexican and u. S. Team cornered el chapo on january 8, 2016. Just six months after he escaped. But this time he didnt go down without a fight. And it was wild. This helmet cam footage shot by a mexican marine, captured the operation as it devolved into a shootout. El chapo was once again in custody. And this time, quietly extradited to the United States. In february, 2019, guzman was convicted on all ten charges against him, including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, Money Laundering and conspiracy to commit murder. He was sentenced to life plus 30 years in an american prison. He has filed and appeal. But the drug wars wage on. El chapos arrest did not stem the flow of narcotics across the u. S. Border, and there were 30,000 murders in mexico in 2017. At the time, a record for that country. Most of the killings were linked to drug violence, and the cartels are evolving, becoming key suppliers of fentanyl, wreaking havoc on the streets of america. Enmrs. Ment is only one piece of the problem. The reality is, unless you stop the demand, these young kids that are getting addicted that have no idea what theyre taking, this is going to be a very long battle. It starts with the schools, the educators. Reporter even though he left the dea nearly four years ago, drew still has security concerns. Afraid . No. I wouldnt say afraid. Just hyper aware. You know, ready for anything. And ready for his place in Law Enforcement history. A dea agent who was obsessed with the hunt for the most wanted drug lord in the world. I think thats where people had gotten caught up before, is that they become infatuated with the man, the myth, the legend. For me that was never the case. It was about the challenge. It was about the hunt. Thats all that mattered. Thats all for this edition of dateline. Im natalie morales. Thank you for watching. Watching this sunday, why werent we ready . This is going to get worse o before it gets better, for sure. The governments sobering te coronavirus projection. He hundreds of thousands of americans dead, under a bestcase scenario. This will be probably the toughest week, between this week and next week. Cases and deaths soaring fastest in the u. 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