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The world’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquin 'El Chapo' (Shorty) Guzman, has been captured inside a condominium in the beach resort town of Mazatlan on Saturday morning in Mexico by Mexican marines working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Marshals Service, Daily News reports.
No shots were fired when authorities came upon Guzman in bed with an unidentified woman at 6:40 a.m., authorities said.
The 56-year-old billionaire head of the Sinaloa Cartel will be tried in Brooklyn Federal Court along with five co-defendants in New York City.
“Chapo is the face of the Sinaloa Cartel and is recognized as the biggest drug trafficker in the world,” an official said. “By far, the Sinaloa Cartel is responsible for bringing more cocaine, heroin and meth into this country than any other organization.
“Hundreds of murders, if not thousands of murders, are attributed to him, if not by his own hand, under his direction,” added the official, who requested anonymity.
“The criminal activity Guzman allegedly directed contributed to the death and destruction of millions of lives across the globe through drug addiction, violence, and corruption,” Attorney General Eric Holder added.
U.S. authorities expect their Mexican counterparts to cooperate with an extradition request, given that the last time Guzman was behind bars he managed to escape by bribing dozens of federal prison guards in Mexico to hide him in a laundry basket and walk him out the front door in 2001, the official noted.
Guzman’s arrest represents a huge victory in Mexico’s bloody drug war that has killed at least 70,000 people, including children, since 2006.
No shots were fired when authorities came upon Guzman in bed with an unidentified woman at 6:40 a.m., authorities said.
The 56-year-old billionaire head of the Sinaloa Cartel will be tried in Brooklyn Federal Court along with five co-defendants in New York City.
“Chapo is the face of the Sinaloa Cartel and is recognized as the biggest drug trafficker in the world,” an official said. “By far, the Sinaloa Cartel is responsible for bringing more cocaine, heroin and meth into this country than any other organization.
“Hundreds of murders, if not thousands of murders, are attributed to him, if not by his own hand, under his direction,” added the official, who requested anonymity.
“The criminal activity Guzman allegedly directed contributed to the death and destruction of millions of lives across the globe through drug addiction, violence, and corruption,” Attorney General Eric Holder added.
U.S. authorities expect their Mexican counterparts to cooperate with an extradition request, given that the last time Guzman was behind bars he managed to escape by bribing dozens of federal prison guards in Mexico to hide him in a laundry basket and walk him out the front door in 2001, the official noted.
Guzman’s arrest represents a huge victory in Mexico’s bloody drug war that has killed at least 70,000 people, including children, since 2006.
