BUSTED! Mexico nabs world’s most wanted drug lord “El Chapo”

Guzman, most wanted drug lord arrested

Mexican Marines have arrested the world’s most wanted drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
He was captured Saturday by and publicly hauled away in handcuffs, ending his blood-stained reign after a 13-year manhunt.
Stemming from US-Mexican coordination, the arrest deals a blow to the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico’s biggest drug-trafficking organization, an empire that...
stretches along the Pacific coast and smuggles drugs to the United States, Europe and Asia.
Guzman was captured at 6:40 am local time in the Pacific beach city of Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, along with an unidentified associate “without a single shot fired,” Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said.
The 56-year-old Sinaloa cartel kingpin wore a white shirt and jeans and sported thick black hair and a mustache.
He was flanked by two masked marines who held him by the arms and neck before hauling him inside a federal police helicopter, on his way to prison.
The United States — which hailed Guzman’s downfall as “a landmark achievement” — had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Guzman, who is accused of being behind much of the drug violence that has plagued Mexico for years.
Murillo Karam said the arrest was the result of months of work in coordination with US law enforcement agencies, which led to 13 arrests and the seizure of more than 100 weapons.
Guzman’s capture is a major coup for the 14-month administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto following the arrest of the head of the ultra-violent and powerful Zetas drug cartel, Miguel Angel Trevino, in July 2013.
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