El Chapo's finance chief among three cartel members who escaped a Mexico City jail
Three inmates, including El Chapo's former chief financial officer, who are facing extradition to the Untied States, busted out of a Mexico City jail on Wednesday.
Correctional officers at the Mexico City Southern Prison were conducting a morning roll call when they discovered the prisoners were missing at 8:30am.
Among the escapees is Victor Manuel 'El Vic' Félix Beltrán, 32, who oversaw the finances of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán's Sinaloa Cartel.
Security forces were canvassing neighborhoods in the Mexican capital near the prison for two other cartel members that escaped, Luis Fernando Meza González and Yael Osuna Navarro.
Hazael Ruiz, assistant secretary of the Mexico City Penitentiary System, and Rosa Icela Rodríguez, head of Mexico City's Ministry of the Interior, said six to 10 people are involved with helping the fugitives escape.
Mexican authorities are looking for El Chapo's former chief financial officer, Victor Manuel 'El Vic' Félix Beltrán, after he and two other members of the Sinaloa Cartel escaped from a Mexico City prison on Wednesday. All three are awaiting extradition to the United States
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán's (pictured) organization named Victor Manuel 'El Vic' Félix Beltrán as the cartel's finance chief in 2011, replacing his father Víctor Manuel 'El 69' Félix as the El Chapo's consigliere
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ShareMeza González and Félix Beltrán were being held on drug charges and Osuna Navarro for alleged criminal association.
El Vic replaced his father, Víctor Manuel 'El 69' Félix, as El Chapo's consigliere after the older man was apprehended by Mexican security forces in 2011 and extradited to California in 2017. He was sentenced to 14 years in jail.
A Chicago federal court indicted El Vic in 2015 and slapped him with a money laundering charged and also accused him over overseeing the cartel's production and export of heroin from Mexico to Chicago.
Mexican authorities are looking for Victor Manuel 'El Vic' Félix Beltrán and two other men who escaped from a jail in Mexico City on Wednesday morning. El Vic worked under one of El Chapo's sons, Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán (pictured)
Federal authorities allege that El Vic gained control of the Windy City route when Chicago twin brothers Pedro and Margarito Flores surrendered to the feds in 2008 and eventually turned on El Chapo, becoming key witnesses in the drug lord's trial last year.
El Vic, who handled the day-to-day cartel finances under the supervision of El Chapo's sons, Jesús Alfredo and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán, witnessed their 2016 kidnapping at a restaurant in resort city of Puerto Vallarta.
El Vic, who used various aliases and false names to purchase properties that were crucial in cartel's operation, was arrested October 2017 by the Criminal Investigation Agency when they raided his Mexico City home.
A court handed him a four-year jail sentence in April.
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