Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto announced on Twitter today that Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Leora has been taken into custody.
Misión cumplida: lo tenemos. Quiero informar a los mexicanos que Joaquín Guzmán Loera ha sido detenido.
— Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) January 8, 2016
Mi reconocimiento al Gabinete de Seguridad del Gobierno de la República por este importante logro en favor del Estado de Derecho en México.
— Enrique Peña Nieto (@EPN) January 8, 2016
“Mission accomplished. We have him. I want to inform the Mexican people that Joaquin Guzman Loera has been detained,” Nieto says, in a translation from Washington Post. “My appreciation to the Cabinet of security of the Government of the Republic for this important achievement for the State of law in Mexico.”
“El Chapo” has been the subject of an international manhunt ever since the Sinaloa cartel crime boss escaped from a maximum security state prison last year on a motorcycle.
This story is breaking, and we shall add more details as they become available.
UPDATE – 2:15 P.M. EST More information has come in regarding the circumstances of El Chapo’s capture:
Mexican official confirms to @ABC that El Chapo was captured after a shootout with Mexican marines in Los Mochis, Sinaloa this morning.
— Gio Benitez (@GioBenitez) January 8, 2016
'El Chapo' was captured after a shootout with Mexican marines this morning, official says: https://t.co/2UsVSVTmqd pic.twitter.com/insDwzOjvM
— ABC News (@ABC) January 8, 2016
Marines seized two armored vehicles, eight rifles, one handgun and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher in the raid of El Chapo, per @AP
— Michael Rusch (@weeddude) January 8, 2016
"non-verified Twitter account of Iván Guzmán, one of El Chapo's sons, told the Mexican president to go fuck himself" https://t.co/FjVKyHfjsj
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) January 8, 2016
UPDATE – 2:19 P.M. EST The DEA also released a Twitter statement applauding the drug lord’s arrest:
DEA is extremely pleased at the capture of Chapo Guzman. We congratulate the MX Government and salute the bravery involved in his capture
— DEA News (@DEANEWS) January 8, 2016
UPDATE – 3:27 P.M. EST Pictures have come in relating to Chapo’s arrest:
Government released image related to raid in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, earlier this morning pic.twitter.com/96Bt8WXG9e
— Nick Valencia (@CNNValencia) January 8, 2016
EL CHAPO: House in Los Mochis, Sinaloa in which he and his associates were hiding in https://t.co/zxOu3pUMw6 pic.twitter.com/Qy8kcHRoiG
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) January 8, 2016
BREAKING NEWS: This first photo of Joaquin "El Chapo " Guzman after his capture. https://t.co/TDcQWPyWDQ pic.twitter.com/P3ix9YtM5a
— Breaking News Feed (@pzf) January 8, 2016
[Image via Twitter]
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