Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo has been arrested by the Mexican authorities.
Nearly six months after his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico, El Chapo was arrested after an intense gun battle in the city of Los Mochis, a seaside area in Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa.
“Mission Accomplished: We have him,” read the tweet from Mexican President Peña Nieto. “I would like to inform the Mexican people that Joaquin Loera Guzman has been detained.”
According to , the mission began shortly on Friday after an anonymous tip came in from a citizen concerned about armed men in a nearby home.
The authorities went to the house, where they were fired upon. The operation was conducted by Mexico’s most-trusted military wing, the Marines, who captured Mr. Guzman in early 2014, before his escape last July.
Guzman, a multi-billionaire thanks to his Sinaloa Cartel of cocaine and marijuana stunned the world last summer when he stepped into the shower in his cell in the most secure wing of one of the most secure prisons in Mexico and abruptly vanished in full view of a video camera.
When guards later entered the cell, they discovered a small hole in the shower floor, through which Guzmán had disappeared.
