Jacob Diaz

Diaz jumped a wooden fence, ran across a highway, and entered an apartment complex.

He shot through a wooded area and entered a suburban neighborhood.

Eight responding patrol units swarmed the interconnected streets as the K-9 unit's German shepherds tried, unsuccessfully, to pick up the suspect's scent.

Diaz spent the next hour underneath an Econoline van listening to the helicopter's blades whip through the air and the dogs barking in the distance.

When all was quiet, he slipped out from underneath the van and hid the backpack in a thick of palmettos.

Somewhere around 2 a.m., Diaz, covered in dirt and scratches, walked to the nearest street and waved down a passing Ocala police cruiser.

The officer rolled down the windows and asked, You the guy we're looking for?

Yeah, that's me.

Diaz was charged with driving on a suspended license, resisting arrest without violence, and obstruction without violence.

He was ordered to serve four months in the Marin County Jail.

The situation in Mexico took a dramatic turn for the worse while Diaz was inside.

Earlier that year, Arturo Beltran Leyva's older brother, Alfredo, was arrested by the Mexican army in Culhuacan, Sinaloa.

The high-profile arrest of a key leader was followed by the arrest of 11 Beltran Leyva operatives in Mexico City.

Arturo was aware of Chapo Guzman's tactic of using law enforcement to eliminate his rivals, and he firmly believed that Guzman was behind the betrayal.

The arrest undermined the long-term alliance between Guzman and the Beltranleva brothers.

As a result, they publicly accused Guzman of having delivered Alfredo to the authorities over a business dispute.

Whether Guzman was responsible for Alfredo's arrest, as Newsweek would later claim, is not known.

What is known, however, is that the Beltran-Leva organization and their allies formally declared war against the Sinaloa cartel, fracturing the federation.

Shortly thereafter, Arturo had a secret meeting with top members of the Los Zetas in Cuernavaca.

There, they agreed to forge a new alliance.