The courthouse guards probably weren’t laughing.
Lights in the Brooklyn federal courtroom hosting Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s trial briefly went dark Tuesday morning — leading some jokester to shout, “He’s gone!”
Fortunately, the kingpin was still there when the lights came back on, and the room erupted in laughter.
The cocaine trafficker famously escaped from Mexican prisons twice — once in 2001 via a laundry cart and again in 2015 through a secret tunnel built below the lock-up.
But the US Marshals guarding his trial didn’t make a move when the courtroom plunged into pitch darkness, which happened before proceedings got underway for the day.