World | Joaquin Guzman Mexico Busts 4 More in 'El Chapo' Escape That's 7 prison workers so far By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Sep 8, 2015 7:42 AM CDT Copied In this Feb. 22, 2014, file photo, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted in handcuffs by Mexican marines at a hangar in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo,File) A federal judge in Mexico has started proceedings against four officials accused of aiding the escape of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman from a maximum security prison. The federal judicial council said in a statement yesterday that two of those charged are members of the Mexican intelligence service who worked at the prison and two were prison employees in the control room. Guzman escaped through a tunnel dug to his cell on July 11. The four are accused of helping a prisoner escape and not following protocol in sounding the alarm. They're being held in the same prison where they previously worked. Proceedings have already begun against three others, including the person in charge of the control room and two guards. Guzman had escaped from another prison in 2001. Read These Next One critical island in Iran has remained unscathed in airstrikes. Iran's new supreme leader is said to already have war wounds. Retired general, UFO expert has been missing for 11 days. Girl who vanished in 2020 in California is found in North Carolina. Report an error