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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was hiding out in this safe house in Sinaloa, Mexico, when he was recaptured on Jan. 8.AP
A plaque with the street address of the safe house lies in a pool of dried blood after the raid that recaptured El Chapo.AP
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Authorities found several DVDs from the series "La Reina del Sur" in El Chapo's safe house. Actress Kate del Castillo, who arraigned Sean Penn's interview with the drug lord, is the star of the immensely popular soap opera.AP
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Behind a mirrored door inside a ground-floor closet was the entrance to a tunnel.Reuters
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The tunnel eventually connected to Los Mochis' sewer system.AP
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Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was hiding in plain sight with all the comforts of home when Mexican marines mounted the deadly raid that led to his capture, new photos of his hideaway revealed Tuesday.

Although the images show it after being ransacked by authorities, the kingpin’s sprawling sanctuary in the city of Los Mochis featured a modern kitchen with stainless-steel appliances and a fridge stocked with eggs, cheese, sausages, tortillas and Coca-Cola.

A king-size bed with a padded headboard and pillow-top mattress dominated one of the four upstairs bedrooms, and a home-exercise machine sat near a window with the blinds drawn.

El Chapo has a shaved head and no mustache in his newest mugshot.El Chapo has a shaved head and no mustache in his newest mugshot.

Large, flat-screen TVs hung on at least two walls, and four DVDs of the Telemundo soap opera “La Reina del Sur” — starring actress Kate del Castillo, who arranged the infamous interview with Sean Penn — were piled on a bed.

The two-story, contemporary concrete house is on a corner lot along a busy, four-lane road, just blocks from the home of Sinaloa Gov. Mario Lopez Valdez’s mom.

The house had trap door in a ground-floor closet, through which El Chapo escaped into a lighted tunnel as his henchmen shot it out with the marines Friday.

He then tried to escape by stealing a Volkswagen Jetta, but it had a busted transmission.

El Chapo is currently awaiting extradition to the United States, where he faces trials in seven federal courts, including Brooklyn and Manhattan.

In Texas, he’s charged with crimes that carry the death penalty, but Mexican newspaper El Universal quoted a high-ranking prosecutor as saying, “The United States has promised only to prosecute him, and not to apply the death penalty.”

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