By Jon Schuppe and Mark Potter
Infamous drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who humiliated authorities when he tunneled out of a maximum security prison in July, has been captured, Mexico's president said Friday.
"Mission accomplished," Enrique Pena Nieto said on Twitter. "We have him."
A law enforcement source confirmed the arrest to NBC News.
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The Mexican Navy carried out the operation, according to leading Mexican newspaper El Universal. The navy, seen as less corruptible than the country's police forces and army, has taken the lead in fighting the cartels.
The navy said in a statement that marines, acting on a tip, stormed into a home in the town of Los Mochis before dawn. They were fired on from inside the building. Five suspects were killed and six others arrested, according to the statement.
Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel and a master of underground tunnels, set off a furious manhunt on July 11 when he casually slipped into a hole in his shower at Altiplano prison near Mexico City and fled through a mile-long tunnel outfitted with a motorbike that led to a residential construction site.
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3 comments:
SORRY CAMERON COUNTY DA LUIS SAENZ, THIS NEWS WILL OVER COME YOUR ARREST OF THE TAX OFFICE, SO MUCH FOR YOUR LITTLE SHOW FOR POLITICAL INTREST , WHEN YOU KNEW THAT WAS GOING FEDERAL IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS
Saenz and Cortez are holding a news conference at 4:00 to fill us in on their leading the efforts to capture el Chapo.
It was Cortez's contacts in Mexico from his days working for the DEA, that provided the tip on Guzman's whereabouts.
Saenz coordinated and directed the arresting authorities, which did not include the Sheriff's Department.
Now Mexico has "El Chapo" and the "Afluenza Kid" and we want both. Now the dipomatic efforts gear up and we can only wonder what Mexico will try to get from the US, a "mordida" for doing what is right.
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