He didn’t want to be exposed.
After Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman escaped authorities by running nude through a secret underground tunnel in 2014, the Mexican drug lord wanted to steal a car — while still butt naked, his former mistress testified Tuesday.
“He was desperate and he was telling the guy we should steal a car so we could leave,” Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez told jurors in Brooklyn federal court, where her former flame is on trial.
Sanchez had previously testified how she, a maid, a secretary named Condor and an au naturel Chapo fled through a tunnel accessed via stairs hidden under a bathtub when the US feds and Mexican marines raided one of his homes in Culiacan on the night of Feb. 16, 2014.
After trudging through dark, muddy tunnels for an hour, they emerged via the sewers, and Chapo was desperate to get away as they watched helicopters “flying all over the city,” she said.
The group wound up being picked up by another associate.
“He took us to a house where the señor got dressed,” Sanchez said.
They then fled to Mazatlan, where Chapo was arrested a few days later — at a hotel in bed with his wife, while Sanchez stayed elsewhere and only learned about the bust from the news, she said.