Escaped cartel kingpin ‘El Chapo’ captured

He broke out of the prison in a mile-long tunnel from his prison cell shower.

The Mexican Navy said in a statement that marines raided a home after receiving a tip about armed men there.

At one point Guzman, head of the Sinaloa cartel, appeared on Forbes magazine’s list of the wealthiest people with an estimated fortune of $1?billion.

The recapture Guzman, who had already twice escaped from Mexican prisons, culminates the collaborative work among Mexican intelligence and police agencies.

El Universal reported the notorious drug kingpin was captured during a Mexican navy operation.

When Guzman was arrested in July 2014, McCaul acknowledged that sovereignty issues and Mexico’s desire to prosecute its homegrown criminals complicated extradition. One marine was injured.

During the shootout, Guzman and an aide allegedly escaped through a manhole that led to the city’s sewer system.

Rising through the ranks of the drug world, Guzman watched his mentors’ tactics, their mistakes and where to forge the alliances that kept him one step ahead of the law for years.

He nearly escaped again, but authorities located the vehicle on a highway outside the city and nabbed him.

But neither Pena Nieto nor other authorities gave immediate details about the location and day of the Sinaloa drug cartel leader’s arrest.

Margarito and Pedro Flores – twin brothers who grew up in Chicago – played key roles in helping bring down more than 60 Sinaloa-connected players in an indictment that included Guzman. Two pilots were among the dozens of people arrested.

Residents described gunfire and explosions from about 3:30 a.m. (0930 GMT) and said Marines stormed house after house and searched storm drains for the fugitive.

Mexico said after the 2014 capture of the cartel boss that he would be tried in his home country first, with officials promising they would hang on to him.

In a televised speech Friday, Nieto called the capture of Guzman a “victory for the rule of law” that demonstrates that Mexicans can have confidence in their institutions, using the capture to boost the administration’s lagging credibility after a series of scandals.

“Mission accomplished”, Enrique Pena Nieto said on Twitter.

That creation – the Sinaloa cartel – soon became Mexico’s most powerful and richest, a multibillion empire that supplied much of the marijuana, cocaine and heroin sold on American streets.

On Friday, the U.S. Justice department said its previous request to extradite Guzman to the United States still stands and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the kingpin will have to answer for his alleged crimes.

Authorities first arrested Guzman in Guatemala in 1993.

The United States initially filed requests for extradition for Guzman on June 25, before he escaped from prison. When Guzman escaped in 2001, he had served seven years of a more than 20-year sentence, and he racked up eight more charges before being recaptured. On that occasion he was free for more than a decade before being caught in Mazatlan, a tourist resort on the Pacific coast.

A federal official told AFP that Guzman was captured by marines.

This time, Guzman was sent to Altiplano Federal Prison in Almoloya de Juarez.