Mexico offering $3.8 million reward for 'El Chapo'

A 60 million peso ($3.8 million) reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who escaped from the maximum security Altiplano prison on Saturday.

During a news conference Monday, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said that Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, had to have received help escaping. Three prison officials, including director Valentin Cardenas Lerma and the national prisons director, have been let go from their jobs, and 34 prison staffers are being questioned. Osorio Chong said it would be an "act of treason" if any prison officials were involved in the escape. He also denied a report by The Associated Press that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration gave Mexican authorities a head's up about Guzman’s escape plans 16 months ago.

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