Gists: Images of Notorious Drug Kingpin El Chapo being Sent back to SAME Jail He Escaped From

Notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera has been recaptured six months after his elaborate escape from a Mexican maximum security prison.

Here are photos of him being sent back to the same prison he escaped from six months ago.

Despite tunneling out of the maximum security facility in July, Mexican marines were set to drop off the cartel leader at the Altiplano jail overnight.

El Chapo, who was wearing a navy blue shirt and blue Adidas sweatpants, was seen being marched from a military vehicle by three soldiers - showing their faces in full sight - to the Mexican attorney

general's hangar at an airbase in New Mexico.

Mexican marines, with their faces covered, then bundled him into a helicopter and set off towards the prison near Toluca.

There are reports that El Chapo was recaptured because he was trying to do a movie. He reportedly got too carried away, had his lawyers reach out to actors/directors to do a movie about his life, not

knowing he was being watched for a month.

Mexican officials say they caught the drug kingpin after a shootout with Mexican marines in the kingpin's home state in Los Mochis, Mexico.

Five cartel gangsters were reportedly killed in the gun battle and 6 others arrested. One marine

sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

The shootout went down at a home, where authorities seized a vast arsenal of weapons including rocket launchers, machine guns and armored vehicles. El Chapo had earlier escaped from a nearby house which came under fire from marines as the net closed on the cartel leader, Mexican officials revealed.

Mexican police say the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Marshals aided in El Chapo's recapture. It is not yet clear whether El Chapo will be extradited to the US, but he was seen being bundled on to a plane by security officials on Friday afternoon.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto wrote on his Twitter account on Friday: 'Mission accomplished: We have him.' 

The raid also ended in the capture of El Chapo's right-hand man 'El Cholo', a hitman who was also on the run from the law.  Photos are all below. 

The people linked to the July escape of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman included two pilots, one of his attorneys and a brother-in-law, the attorney general said. Guzman was arrested Friday.