While Mexican police spent months frantically searching for drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, at least one American knew exactly where he was.
Liberal Hollywood actor Sean Penn is facing a wave of criticism for conducting a secret, seven-hour interview with Guzman at Guzman’s jungle hideout. The piece was recently published by Rolling Stone.
And the interview with the kingpin and murderer — who once threatened to kill Donald Trump — didn’t just raise eyebrows around Hollywood. It caught the attention to the Department of Justice.
According to ABC News, Penn’s actions are being investigated by Justice Department officials as many Americans call for his arrest either in the United States or Mexico. Though it remains to be seen whether the U.S. federal government would try to bring criminal charges against a member of the Hollywood elite.
Guzman, the world’s most wanted drug trafficker, was arrested early Friday after a shootout in Los Mochis in his home state of Culiacan, six months after he embarrassed the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto by escaping for Mexico’s most-secure prison. Five people were killed during the operation that led to the recapture of Guzman, who has twice escaped from prison.
Mexico Attorney General Arely Gomez had said on Friday that Guzman’s contact with actors and producers for a possible biopic helped give law enforcement a new lead on tracking and capturing the world’s most notorious drug kingpin.
One of the actors Guzman was in contact with was Penn. Penn has described communicating with Guzman through disposable phones and traveling to meet him aboard a plane with radar-jamming equipment.
During the interview, Guzman bragged about being the largest drug supplier in the world. And his Sinaloa Cartel has been implicated in countless murders, as well as corruption and intimidation of public officials.
Fortunately, despite his best efforts, Penn didn’t do a very good job of concealing Guzman’s whereabouts. On Saturday, a Mexican official said it was information found in the Penn interview that helped police track Guzman. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to comment.
The interview between Guzman and Penn, purportedly held in late 2015 in a hideout in Mexico, appeared late Saturday on the website of Rolling Stone magazine.
The magazine says the meeting was brokered by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo. Its website has a two-minute video it says is the first ever exclusive interview with Guzman. It is in Spanish and in it Guzman sits in front of a chain link face and speaks to a camera. He is wearing a print blue shirt and dark baseball cap, but his face is clearly visible. Accompanying the article is a picture of Penn shaking hands with Guzman.
Asked about who is to blame for drug trafficking, Guzman is quoted as saying: “If there was no consumption, there would be no sales. It is true that consumption, day after day, becomes bigger and bigger. So it sells and sells.”
Earlier Saturday, a federal law enforcement official said that Mexico is willing to extradite Guzman to the United States, a sharp reversal from the official position after his last capture in 2014.
“Mexico is ready. There are plans to cooperate with the U.S.,” said the Mexican official, who spoke on condition anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to comment.
But he cautioned that there could be a lengthy wait before U.S. prosecutors can get their hands on Guzman, the most-wanted trafficker who was recaptured Friday after six months on the run: “You have to go through the judicial process, and the defense has its elements too.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article
what in the h— has this country come to. with all of the crap that is going on in Washington with all of the corrupt goings on and they want to single out someone who has the balls to have an interview with someone and the dept. wants to arrest him. let the dept. clean up Washington
and they will have there hands full for the next forty years. starting on capital hill.
There is a fix for all this mess if you people would only listen.
What in the hell was Penn doing an interview with one of the most vile people? tell me that Beverly. he is a lover of vicious dictators. don’t defend the asshole. He’s also a wife beater. also, who the hell would call him a member of the elite actors. FTS.
That far-left POS Penn is an admirer of the murderous Castro brothers and Hugo Chavez.
He has been a communist sympathizer for years. Remember his trips to see his Buddy Chavez. Guy needs to be deported or renounce his citizenship and go live in a 3rd world country.
You are so right.Why do these traitors stay in a country they so revile? I can only shake my head
at these hollywood types.Another michael moore only maybe worse if that is possible.
They stay because they can. They are able to do things here that would get them arrested in other countries. It will be difficult for the US to prosecute him unless he violated the law by his actions. That he violated standards of decency and common sense are a given. Mexico could probably prosecute him if the US would extradite him.
No, he needs to be in a Mexicali jail. If they get him they will treat him like he should be treated.
If you remember Sean Penn went to IRAQ during the first gulf war to talk to Sadam , this guy thinks be is something else I think he is nothing more then a smart ass punk and a not so good actor.
I can’t believe the support he has gotten over the years. He has been fawned over, given awards, praised, and coddled. I think he is one of the least talented, ugliest people to walk the streets of Hollywood and anywhere else in this country. I can’t stand the pathetic excuse for a human being and think he is a waste of skin. I believe he should be arrested for this, given a fair trial, and then given a fair hanging by the neck until purple. Just like the last Minn Vikings game vs Seattle. He should be purple to for all the choking hanging from a rope.
Hang the Bastard Hang Him High!!!!
Let me disagree with you. He is outstanding actor but socially inept asshole, sociopath and communist sympathizer for sure. To revoke his citizenship would be a good lesson.
If he is a natural US citizen, I am not sure his citizenship could be revoked. It certainly will not happen under this president and this Justice Department.
well put girl. Keep it up.
“You are known by the character of the friends you keep.”
I agree why does this dumb bullied get to fount the laws of our land and get away with it ? I bet we the people can take control of his money just by staying home see where he gets his money from then
Lmao , first of all Bev one doesn’t need balls just to give an interview. Second the person Sh** head Penn interviewed is a criminal responsible for thousand of deaths and the misery of many more. I would hope he gets arrested for knowing the whereabouts of such a criminal without telling law enforcement. You need to grow up, just because politicians are out of control does not mean accountability for others goes out the window.
How do you think the police found El Chapo? I’m not sure that Penn didn’t tell the police he was going to meet ElChapo. A lot of actors and singers have secretly worked with the authorities.
Come on man. Not this traitorous piece of dung. He met with Chavez and the Castro’s. He is all communist through and through.
You’re so right Ken, but this administration has shown its failure to be fair and only coddles those that are liberal . If it was Tom Selleck or any Republican actor/actress then they would prosecute them in a second!
It,s called being a traitor to our country, you asked ” what the hell is wrong with our country?, it,s progessive liberial assholes like you. You and all your progressive Marxists including the B actor Sean penn. seems he never left the charactor of being spacoli
Years ago he would have been arrested, but since the communist takeover of our nation this piece of scum will avoid what he deserves! I had stopped patronizing “Hollow-wood” a long time go for this very reason as most of the actors are useful idiots of this communist regime. I just love how all of these drugged-up hypocrites that made millions and acquired their luxurious lifestyles because of capitalism – piece-of-sh^t M. Moore is another one – now are trying to replace it with communism! I think I know the answer to that: these reprobates have acquired their wealth and they want to hold on to it and not let others become rich because they know that they will keep theirs if they play ball with the communist regime! FUK THEM!
Beverly, Penn knew about the whereabouts of a wanted felon. A man who has directed the killing of Americans. And brought heroin, cocaine, meth, and weed into the US. Bribed border patrol officers, killed Mexican citizens who refused to bow and scrape to him. Penn is now a felon who used disposable cell phones and a radar jamming plane to meet with Guzman,
However a hefty donation to the dEmonCat party will get him a slap on the wrist.
Penn is a typical Kalifornia Communist space cadet. They should lock him up in a padded cell for his own good. Nothing will happen to him concerning this issue……with the lawless Administration that is in power now, anything goes without fear of having to pay the consequences……witness what happens in DC daily…….. Corruptionville, USA !!
You pretty much summed it up. What an a hole !
I’m just surprised that the Cartel hasn’t put a target on Shawn’s head for get their leader re-captured!!!
Maybe they did.
Are you stupid or what? He met with a wanted criminal. That’s aiding and abetting unless he was working with the feds and he turned him in. He should do prison time then after that he should be deported to a Socialist south American country!
Sal, you got it right. Take his passport away and charge this idiot with aiding and abeting a felon.
He traveled all that way just to lead the feds to that greasy beaner. I’m proud of him.
if you or I had this so called meeting, we would be in jail right now.
Amen
Penn is a good buddy to everybody who hates America. Surprised he isn’t carrying the black flag of ISIS.
Or maybe that’s on the way in the new year.
Give him time and Penn will be carrying the black flag of ISlam.
What they should do is Bragg on TV what a good job Penn did as an under cover source to the USGOV and I think that others will do our job for us. If you know what I mean
LOLOL good thinking Ron, I’m sure that would work out fine lmao
Oh, I like it. Great idea.
O0I agree why does this dumb bullied get to fount the laws of our land and get away with it ? I bet we the people can take control of his money just by staying home see where he gets his money from then
Maybe he is affiliated with ISIS. He should be Charged with Treason
Not at all. Once the fat beaner finds out it was Penn who led the feds to him he’ll send a team to snuff him. Problem solved and the US won’t have to get involved.
But, according to the Mexican feds, he led them right to that fat, greasy beaner. Penn had better watch his back when the news gets back to the beaner, he’ll send a team to snuff him for getting him caught.
he was going down to negotiate the cost of drugs for his hollyweird friends, that’s all. Wonder if the gangs will try to get him for leading the military to catch the drug man. Wonder if this is the same guy who oboma and holder gave all those automatic guns to?
arrest the jerk
Let that ASSHOLE go to any other country and make the kind of money he has made in the USA
No, no, no those scumbags want to live well, make a lot and revile America.
Sean Penn being given international fame for nailing El Chapo. Not so good Sean. A lot of people were wishing that you would just shut-up, and go away, and now, you just might have too. Your left-wit buddy Chavez can’t help you, and Obama won’t help you, as he only helps himself. You are on your own on this one Penn, and it is going to cost you a pretty penny when El Chapo’s minions come hunting for you. I wonder how much increased armed security is going to cost you? Going to do another movie to pay for it, not likely, who wants to be around a walking target.
So Penn, it looks like you have shut yourself up, and shut yourself in.
So, the question is, will you be charged and arrested for what amounts to blatant stupidity, NO, not likely, and why not, well because “they” will have to show criminal intent in order to get a conviction, and that is not likely, so you will skate away yet once again, or will you, as now El Chapo’s boys maybe on the hunt for you. A left-wit like you Penn, may escape the law, but it is not likely that you will escape El Chapo’s minions of determined retribution.
The criminal intent ? he knew was going to meet with a know FBI fugitive, and didn,t inform the FBI. That,s called aiding & a bedding.nowit,s on a federal level. @ the very least he should be banished and loose his American citizenship, or hung for treason, he an join his fellow Marxist in treason. Obama, Hillary, McCain, bitch McConnell, Dickhead Durban, Lindsay graham, and a couple hundred more in congress & the senate, and both sides of the .aisle
I agree with you, but the problem is proving it in a court room. This clown can come up with a number of reasons, the prosecution would have to dis-prove each one. Then too he can hide under journalistic freedom. Yes, I agree with you, we KNOW what the fool was up to, but again prove it.
El Chapo, and Penn, are both idiots, One is on the run, and the other is being followed around by numerous intelligence agencies, plus media. So one grants the other an interview, how insane is that. Fools both.
“Dickhead Durban?” You must be from Illinois. That is one of the best monikers I have seen for Dickie-boy
His best movie was Fast Times at
Ridgemont High. Played himself,
a drug addled Moron.
LOL
Penn, years ago tried to interview Sadam Hussein, Hussain turned him down. Lousy actor needs publicity. Is he a traitor?, I don’t know,? I put him in the jerk class and don’t watch any movies he is in.
He is a traitor who hates America he should be put to jail
Do NOT let PENN HEAD back in the USA!! He loved Chavez and praised the Cuban Dick tator just a few years ago!!! Let live like the PEOPLE do in these thrid world countries and NOT in five star hotels or Presidential PALACES!!!! You are known by the fruit you produce!!
The US may not be able to revoke his citizenship, BUT they could revoke his passport. Just an idea.
http://tunein.com/radio/SPIRIT-OF-AMERICA-PARTY-RADIO-SHOW-p632362/
The best way to deal with this man is not going to any movie he is in.He would soon be shunned by Hollywood and that would make him totally irrelevant
I agree 100%. Sean Penn is a communist who hates America. He deserves to be punished. A lot of Hollywood liberals actors are disgusting. We used to love to go to movies but lately we stopped because many of them are so connected with their communist ideas.
Don’t spend taxpayer dollars here. Deport him to Mexico they have fine prisons and will give the prick what he truly deserves…another Hollywood neurotic mental LIBERAL
I agree 100% I can’t wait for Trump to become our president!!!
I agree100%.
GOOD. This leftard has always been on the wrong side of right. He’s got too much free time and not enough imagination. Arrest sean penn, yes, before he embarrasses us even more.
He actually should be sent to a Mexican prison as it is primarily the law enforcement of Mexico that he evaded. However, with that said, any normal person on the street would have already been arrested for doing what he did. Yet another case of Afluenza, Hollywood Style.
Penn is a liberal and nothing will be done about or to him. he will be protected by liberal Hollywood and the MSM.
NO need to prosecute the Jackass. Just wait him out for a bit til he comes crying for “Protection” from one REAL PISSED OFF El Chapo. Then lock him up in a “Safe Place”. LoL
Why should Penn be put in jail ?He was not helping the girl scouts sell cookies he should be put away for along time. Unless of course your in favor of what he has done below, in which case I hope someone is monitoring this site for your address.
By the time of his 2014 arrest, Guzmán had exported more drugs to the United States than anyone else:[16] more than 500 tons of cocaine in the USA alone.
Guzmán was captured in 1993 in Guatemala, extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking.[2][18] After bribing prison guards, he was able to escape from a federal maximum-security prison in 2001.[2] He was wanted by the governments of Mexico and the United States, and by INTERPOL.[19] The U.S. offered a US$5 million reward for information leading to his capture, and the Mexican government offered a reward of 60 million pesos (approximately US$3.8 million) for information on Guzmán.[2]
What the dumb ass media doesn’t understand is, that sean more then likely seceretly contacted the proper authorities, that he was going to do this , and this is the chance they were looking for. For obvious reasons, he cant go public with him helping catch this P.O.S. and if I know sean he is actually a f– ing hero for having the guts to sucker punch a dirt bag, degenerate, street punk, “cartel” Mexican! now if only he can figure out a way to eject the rest of them, 50 million of them, out of America!
Do you know Sean? Really? I seriously doubt that he “contacted the proper authorities” but go ahead and put that scenario out there. It will pretty much guarantee that El Chapo will put a price on his slimy skin.
Penn is a c.i.a. agent and did a great job on his last assignment delivering chopo. Penn is still a low life liberal anti american but the c.i.a. has got him by the short hairs for his past transgressions and they own him.
He should go to jail with him, then he can interview him all he likes freaking trader.
Los Mochis is located in the state of Sinaloa, not Culiacan.
He conducted an interview like a reporter would. Are we going to start arresting reporters? He did not hide him him in his home. He did not assist him in escaping. Years and years from now people will be interested in the interview. People who study criminals will use the interview. Penn is not smuggling drugs or murdering people. What an angry mob of people our world has become.
I dont like Penn, but I have never heard of a law about “talking to people who are criminals”. These hell bent
law enforcement idiots need to go out to Oregon and screw with farmers. Better yet clean up Chicago or Washington.
Penn is doing what he does he did no wrong and he is a great actor and leave it alone
Penn is doing what he does he did no wrong and he is a great actor and leave it alone and I am saddened by David Bowies deaths today from cancer.
In the meantime, maybe the Cartel will put a hit on Shawn Penn for getting their leader captured…..
I would like to to see Sean Penn face some sort of prosecution, but at least his efforts led to the capture of Guzman and may have provided enough of a confession to convict this drug lord. Penn may become a marked man if Mexican authorities were able to track him and use that to capture Guzman.
Penn is and always has been a Liberal (Progressive). It’s almost impossible to convict a liberal movie star while their is a Communist in the White House. He may even get a medal for it.
Kind of like how Denzel Washington received his award last night!!! He is a no good RACIST who was hoping “it was a crazy white racist who killed instead of a Muslim terrorist. We should boycott Hollywood Movies and see what happens to these left wing progressive shit-heads. We need to actually think of the income we provide to these out of touch liberals. We as a group can change these issues. TOGETHER WE STAND or TOGETHER WE FALL
Lets do a trade with Mexico El Chapo for Penn. Let Penn stay in a Mexican jail for awhile so he can think about his leftist communist ways. see how he likes Mexico’s jail. What an ASS.
An actor was able to have a sit down with a known criminal and we couldn’t find him. That’s because he has the weapons obama and hillary gave them through fast and furious.They don’t want him telling on them and Mexico continues to hold an American prisoner while sending thousands of illegals into America. Our leaders are the enemy and wee are going to get exactly what we deserve because of our lack of commitment to eliminate those that are an enemy of the State.
Arrest His Liberal Butt, Boycott everything he is involved in.
I heard thru the grapevine, from people who work in the industry in ballywood, that penn made a deal with the feds when he interviewed chapo, so chapo could be pinched!! So I guess penn will have a contract on him now from the cartel, so why bring him justice, the cartel will take care of him..um
Harboring a fugitive. Penn is about as un- American as it gets. Make him El Chapo’s cellie.
Sean pen was just doing it for his own glory, kind of selfish motives but using jamming devices to avoid radar detection and meeting secretly with a known felon is abetting a criminal! It is a crime that can send him to the slammer for a long time if he was an ordinary person but with his status in the liberal hollow wood, he will walk free as obummer will protect him as a crony too. He is emboldened by the socialists in Washington dc similar to those others that defy our constitution and helped the enemy gain strength as in the likes of Hanoi Jane Fonda. Come on guys, Penn will never be prosecuted coz he got money to hire the best crook lawyer like OJ simpson did. They all know how to circumvent the system, like they say, money talks, bullshit walks!